The LCD font: text box lists the currently selected font to display all information in the KsCD status display. To change the font, click the button.
The LCD color: and Background color: fields show the color selected for the foreground and background of the status display. Press the color bars to change these colors.
Placing a mark in the checkbox labeled Show icon in system tray causes a KsCD control to appear in the Kicker panel.
Placing a mark in the checkbox labeled Show track announcement causes a small information window to appear on top of the kicker window each time the CD track changes. This window will automatically disappear in 5 seconds.
Set the Skip interval box to the desired number of seconds to move ahead or behind when the or buttons in the Control Panel are pressed.
Autoplay when CD inserted causes KsCD to start playing the CD when the tray is closed, with no need to press the button.
Eject CD when finished playing causes the CD to be automatically ejected when playback ends.
Stop playing CD on exit causes CD playback to stop when KsCD is closed.
The CD-ROM Device field contains the name
of the CD-ROM device to be used to play audio CDs. The default
value is /dev/cdrom
. The permissions on this
device must be set to allow opening this device read-only. Changing
the permissions on this device file will in almost all cases require
superuser privileges and can be done from the command line, or in the
Super User Mode of Konqueror.
Before we discuss the options that follow, it is important to understand that there are two ways that personal computers can play a CD.
The first method (which KsCD refers to as direct digital playback), is performed by reading the digital data from the CD using Digital Audio Extraction (DAE). This data is sent to your machines CPU which converts the digital data to sound. This method requires a CD drive that is capable of DAE (most new drives are) and it requires some CPU processing time to generate the sounds you hear.
The second method uses the internal circuitry available on most CD drives to read the data and generate the sounds you will hear without using your computers CPU. This data is transmitted by a dedicated cable directly to the sound card in your computer. This method requires less CPU proccessing time, but it does require that the dedicated cable be connected inside your computer. Not all computers have this connection.
The checkbox labeled Use direct digital playback determines which method KsCD uses to read the audio tracts. If there is a mark in the checkbox, the first method is used. If there is no mark in the checkbox, the second method is utilized.
If you have selected direct digital playback, a dropdown box labeled Select audio backend: will let you select which sound backend the digital information should be sent to. The contents of the dropdown box will vary depending on your system. Most users should select arts. You can also select the device the audio backend uses by entering the device location in the text box labeled Select audio device:. A full discussion of audio devices and audio backends is beyond the scope of this manual.
If a mark is placed in the checkbox labeled Allow encoding selection, you can select the text encoding for the results of a CDDB request.
The standard describes CDDB results as being strictly Latin 1. If you are not having problems with your CDDB information, leave this box unchecked.
The button opens the KsCD help contents page. The button restores the default values of all entries in this dialog; saves the current settings and exits; saves the current settings without exiting; exits without saving.
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