This is the main window of KsCD. You should see something like this when you start KsCD. The controls in this window are explained below, in no particular order.
This is the main control panel for KsCD. The function of these buttons should be familiar to anyone who has ever used a CD player.
The uppermost button in the above diagram toggles between playing and pausing the CD. The left button in the second row stops playing the CD. The right button in the second row ejects the CD. The two buttons in the third row skip forward (right) or backward (left) to the beginning of the next or previous track. The left button in the bottom row toggles random play order on and off; the right button in the bottom row toggles looping, so that the CD will start playing again from the beginning when the end of the last audio track is reached.
This is the status display. Starting at the top, from right to left, is the main time display (see below for a discussion of the various possible time display modes), the status of the CD-ROM drive, the total play time of the audio CD, the current volume setting, and the current and maximum track numbers (curr./max.). The bottommost two lines of text display the artist and title of the CD, and then the title of the track, assuming that appropriate entries exist in the local or network CDDB (CD Data Base.)
Click the time display to toggle between the possible main time display modes. By default, KsCD displays the elapsed time of the current track, if the CD is playing, or either ––:–– or 00:00 if the CD is not playing. Clicking the display toggles in sequence between remaining track time, total elapsed time, and total remaining time.
This button brings up a menu with a number of options. You can choose to open the KsCD configuration panel or configure keyboard shortcuts. These allow you to configure KsCD to work exactly to your tastes. See the configuring KsCD section, for details about configuring KsCD
The menu provides several tools to help you search for information about the artist on the Internet. You can find out about performance dates, purchase information, and other information by pressing this button and choosing the appropriate option in the popup menu that appears.
This menu also allows you to open this help document, report bugs, learn more about KsCD and KDE and to quit KsCD.
This button opens the CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base) entry editor panel.
The CDDB can identify your CD and often download a list of tracks for that CD or load it from the filesystem. See the CD Database Editor section for more details about using this tool.
This slider controls the volume of the audio output of the CD. Moving it to the right makes the music louder, left makes it quieter. If you are playing your CD through your sound card, the sound card mixer will affect the playback volume as well.
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