CDPLAY(1)                 Minix Programmer's Manual                  CDPLAY(1)


NAME
     cdplay - play audio compact disks

SYNOPSIS
     cdplay [ -a]|[-r]

DESCRIPTION
     Cdplay is  an  audio-cdplayer  it  can  be  used  interactively  or  non-
     interactively.  With  no  flags  cdplay  is used interactively. When used
     interactively cdplay can be either in non-playing  or  playing  mode.  In
     non-playing  mode  you  can  select  tracks to be played. In playing mode
     cdplay  shows  the  track-time,  remaining  track-time,  total-time   and
     remaining total-time. Cdplay assumes the drive to be at /dev/cd0.

     During non-playing mode the following commands are available:

     cursor-up/down
          browse through the track-list

     spacebar
          add track to the play-list

     backspace
          remove a track from the play-list

     s    start playing the tracks in the play-list.  When  the  play-list  is
          empty  start  playing  from  the  current position in the track-list
          until the end of the cd

     p    play the track on the current position in the track-list

     r    play all tracks in a random order (shuffle play)

     e    exit cdplay


     During playing mode the following commands are available:

     s    stop playing, return to non-playing mode

     spacebar
          pause/resume current track

     cursor-up/down
          skip to next/previous track

OPTIONS
     When one  of  these  options  is  used  cdplay  does  everything  in  the
     background.

     -a   Play all tracks, cdplay tells the drive to play all tracks and  then
          it immediately returns to the user

     -r   Play all tracks in random order (shuffle play). Cdplay  forks  of  a
          new  process  which  starts up a track, during that track it sleeps.
          When the track is finished it wakes up to start the next  track  and


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CDPLAY(1)                 Minix Programmer's Manual                  CDPLAY(1)


          goes to sleep again. The parent process immediately returns  to  the
          user.

BUGS
     Cdplay does not sense if a cd has changed, so don't switch cd's.  If  you
     want  to  play  another cd you have to insert the new cd and start cdplay
     again.

AUTHOR
     Michel R. Prevenier (mrpreve@cs.vu.nl)
















































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