CD Player

If you use a lot your computer to listen to your audio CDs and you haven't visited this place before, then you must be really bored with that old Windows 95 CD Player.
Well, here's your chance to replace it with a cooler one.
Why?!
Let me give you just one reason:

Now, seriously, here's a description of the program:

Intentionally but confusingly it's named also CD Player. I didn't want to rack my brains to find a groovy name for it, because it's still a CD Player.
It also does what every CD Player does: displays various information about the CD and allows you to play it, stop it, rewind it, etc.
The program runs in the system tray and can be accessed by a click of a mouse. A left click shows or hides back in the tray the CD Player window (see above) and a right click pops up a menu that allows you to control the behavior of the CD.
The CD Player window is almost self-explanatory. What can't be seen though is that a right click on the display (the black area) shows a popup menu from where you can make the window stay on top of all other opened windows and you can toggle the window's caption bar. You can keep your window without the caption bar (again, see above) and still movable. To move it across your screen click on the background (for example on the bottom-right corner, where's more space) and act like you just clicked on a caption bar. There's another special zone on the display which is the counter zone. Right click there and a popup menu allows you to choose what the counter shows (track time elapsed, track time remaining, CD time elapsed or CD time remaining).
The buttons have the following functions (from left to right): play, pause, stop, previous track, rewind, forward, next track, eject.
There's a vertical track bar on the right of the window that allows you to adjust the CD Audio volume (bottom position is mute and top position is the loudest).
A right click on the CD Player tray icon results in a popup menu, as mentioned before.
This menu contains items that do the same things as the buttons from the window (play, pause, stop, previous, next, eject). The "Tracks" item is available only when a CD is loaded and it's the place where all the tracks are displayed, the play list can be edited (using the existing "cdplayer.ini" file, so you won't have to rewrite all the track titles again), the "Random Order" or "Continuous Play" can be selected. The "Settings" item displays a window where besides the possibilities to make the program the default CD Player and AutoPlay when a CD is inserted, or to stop the CD playing on program close, or changing the color of the display (default is white) you will have the pleasure to view info about the system's processor, platform, memory and media. To make your old CD Player the default one just uncheck the "Make it your default CD Player" checkbox and hit OK.

That's about it.

You must know though that I haven't tested it very much, so, in case that anything goes wrong, don't hesitate to announce me. I'm opened to any suggestions or special requests regarding the window components such as: different button order or size, different set of bitmaps for the buttons, different order of popup menus items, etc. So if there's anything that doesn't satisfy you we'll work it out.

By the way, the program is written in Delphi, so if you're interested in components (for example the one that does the LCD writing here), bits of code, tips or anything... let me know.

If you want a copy of this CD Player, all you have to do is send me a postcard (if you haven't already sent me one) from your city containing your name and your email address and I'll email you the zipped program (198K).
* Guaranteed free updates (if any) *
Here's the address:
Radu Popescu 17, bl. 24A, ap.48, sect. 1, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Alin Chitu
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +40 01 6650606