# PM123's Configuration Dialog

## Settings

This proporties dialog can be accessed from the main menu. In the dialog you can configure PM123's audio engine and interface.

Start playing on file load
  Automatically starts playing when you load a file.
Auto 'use playlist' on add files
  Automatically selects "Use this playlist" when adding files or directories to the playlist.
Skip non-playable files
  Don't stop the playlist if there is some error of decoding. Non-playable file is marked by a special icon and the next song is loaded and played.
Auto 'play' on 'use playlist
  Automatically starts playing on "Use playlist".
Select played file
  Automatically selects currently playing file in the playlist.
Continuous playback
  Enables the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. This is possible in case if audio formats of tracks are identical.
Dock windows to x pixels
  This will allow the windows to dock into the main player window so that when then main window is moved, the docked window follows. Specify the distance in pixels to allow for docking.

HTTP proxy
  Specify the name or numeric IP address of your HTTP proxy server here.
port
  Specify the port of your HTTP proxy server.
User name
  This is your HTTP authentication name.
password
  This is your HTTP authentication password.
No proxy for
  Type the domains and/or IP addresses that you do not want to use a proxy for. Separate each entry with a comma. (Example: .mynet.org, 192.168.1.0 )
Buffer size
  Specifies the read ahead buffer size (useful when plaing across a network or from a streaming source). You can disable the buffer having chosen the zero size, but it will dramatically decrease player performance.
Fill buffer before playing
  Fills the buffer (see above) before playing.
Connection timeout
  Controls the wait period in seconds when a new stream connection is requested.

## Display

Characters encoding
  Specifies the default characters encoding of the information about song (artist, album etc.). This is used only if the decoder don't provide encoding information.

Scroll title / Infinite
  Keeps scrolling the display forth and back until you start feeling sick :-)
Scroll title / Once
  Scrolls the display forth and back once.
Scroll title / Disable
  Prevents the display from scrolling. Useful if you are scroll-sick.

Default display / Filename
  Display the filename by default.
Default display / Song information
  Display the song title by default.
Default display / Tech information
  Display the file technical information by default (bitrate, frequency, mode).

Use skinned font for display
  Allows to choose between skinned and non skinned font for display of title.

## Plug-ins

This dialog is divided into two parts - one for the visual plug-ins and the second for decoder plug-ins.

Enable/Disable
  Enables/disables the selected plugin.
Unload
  Unloads the plugin completely.
Configure
  Avalaible only if the plugin is configurable. Click this button to set plugin's settings.
Add
  Add a plugin (some visual plugins are skin specific, see PM123 sound visualization).

This dialog is also divided into two parts - in filter plugins part, you can add a filter, in output plugins part you can use a output plugins.

Enable/Disable
  Enables/disables the selected plugin.
Unload
  Unloads the plugin completely.
Configure
  Avalaible only if the plugin is configurable. Click this button to set plugin's settings.
Add
  Add a plugin.
Activate
  Activate an output plugin. There must be always one active output plug-in. With wavout plugin, you can save the music to a WAV file. Wavout plugin is very useful for gabbing CD audio tracks... ;-)

## Assotiations

This dialog is control an associations of the PM123 with supported audio files. You can associate or disassociate any file individually or all supported files via dialog context menu.

## About

Last properties dialog is About dialog. There are some info about PM123, author etc.