CD++

CD++ application was designed to be a music player with the same controls as a cd player, plus many options for sorting your music files.
Here are some key features of "CD plus plus":
· CD++ catalogues, plays and samples from audio and mixed-mode CDs. CD++ will also catalogue data CDs (CD ROMs), but can obviously not play or sample from them.
· CD data, ie artist, title, date and track names, is held in a catalogue. When a catalogued CD is loaded in the CD drive, it is recognised and its data is displayed. When an un-catalogued CD is loaded, you can either enter the title and other data manually, or you can import the data from the Windows 95 CDplayer, if the CD is catalogued there, or you can obtain the data online from the CDDB database. CDDB is a large (150,000+ entries) database of CD information which can be queried via the Internet.
· Each catalogued CD can have an associated Playlist. Playlists can contain tracks and segments, and contain multiple entries for the same track or segment. Existing playlists can be imported from the Windows 95 CDplayer. CD++ allows you to define Segments. Segments are named sub-sections of tracks, defined by a start and end position, which can be as short as 1/75th of a second or as long as the whole track. Segment data is held with the other CD data in the catalogue. Segments can be used simply as cue points for playback, or they can define ranges for sampling. CD++ will record Segments as samples, and save them as Windows .wav format sound-files. Note that this ability to sample audio data from a CD is not meant to encourage the use of such samples in breach of copyright.
· CD++ has the usual controls for CD playback.
· Many of these features are illustrated by the entry for Tomb Raider II in the example catalogue. The TRII data (track listing etc) was obtained from CDDB. The playlist is constructed from short segments; its effectiveness will depend on the cueing speed of your CD drive.
Limitations:
· If you continue to use the software after the one-month evaluation period, you should register it
· nag screen