Lady in Black 1.2
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The Lady in Black is a CD Player with archive function for 
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME.

It features:
- automatic CD recognition
- viewable CD archive
- colors fully customizable (except the *black* display background)
- low CPU usage
- sources available

It does NOT provide access to the CDDB.COM database, i.e. you have to 
input artist and track names by yourself.


Usage:

The four buttons are self-explaining. Use the Play button to 
pause/resume playback.

Mouse function:
- Left button (on text line) -> Edit text
- Left button (elsewhere) -> Move the window
- Right button -> Options menu

Artist names entered when the total CD time is displayed will be used 
for the whole CD, except for tracks with own artist name input. You can 
view the archive, a list of all tracks you have input. The list will be 
sorted by track name, artist name, album name or track time if you click 
on the column header.

The archive is being saved in the plain textfile 'CDData.txt'. If you
change this file with an editor, use '|' and EOL characters only for
format purpose! Also, do not change lines beginning with '~', which are 
required for CD identification!

Attention: The program sometimes hangs when changing the CD. (I don't 
know, why.) All data you have input since the last program start will be
lost in this case. If you're going to archive your huge CD collection,
quit and restart the program regularly to minimize risk.


Installation/Deinstallation:

Note that the program requires a High Color display ar least.

After you have unpacked the ZIP-Archive, the program is ready to go.
If you want the program to be included in the Start Menu, you need to do 
this manually. To deinstall, simply delete the two 'LiB.*' files and the
CD database 'CDData.txt'. The program does not change the Windows system 
directory.

Attention: When you are upgrading from an older version, move or copy 
the old CDData.txt file to the new program folder or simply unpack the 
archive into the old folder to keep your CD archive. But don't do the 
move operation when the new version is currently RUNNING, because you'd 
loose your archive in that case.


License/Credits:

This program is in the Public Domain. Usage, distribution and 
modification are not restricted. The Delphi 3/4 sources are available 
from: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

Original programming by me, Steffen Gerlach.
Contact: mailto:mail@steffengerlach.de
Feedback is welcome. If you improved the program in any way, please tell 
me about it.


Version History:

1.2 (07/05/00)
  - bug fixed which caused delay at program start
  - bug fixed: program did not update display after drive change
  - minor improvements

1.1 (08/18/99)
  - CDs without input are no longer being saved to CDData.txt
  - new Icon

1.0 (05/09/99)
