I have several cd players on my home computer. Two that work within
Win3.1 and one that is a dos app. With all of them, the program can be
started, and have the cd continue to play even if you quit the
program. The Win3.1 programs are kind of ugly in that they continually
access the HD while the program is running. Quit the program and the cd
keeps running and disk access stopps. Also the Win3.1 programs randomly
quit playing the cds after you quit the program, i.e. the cd will play a
couple of songs and then stop. The dos program just keeps right on
playing after quitting the program. You can even start DV or win3.1 and
the cd keeps on playing. I believe all of these programs came with my
SCSI card or my zip drive.
Michael
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Pete wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:17:16 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> > Pete wrote:
>
> >> Personally, I would like to run a sound file player in the background
> >> while sifting this list ;-)
> >> If (resource requirements aside for the moment) your brain-child can
> >> help, I'd love to test it!
>
> > You can't leave resource requirements aside tho.
> > Tell me more about the possible sound player(s) and we can then decide
> > if it is a BACKGROUND candidate. Arachne would have to be foreground in
> > this case.
>
> > I use a radio.
>
> I use cassette tapes.
>
> While offline, I can "alt-e" to prompt, start Cubic, set up and play a
> list, including any songs that my processor could handle without A164
> being present. Cubic allows browsing of crosslinked help files while the
> music plays in the background. Those files are not HTML, of course, but
> the idea seems similar. As, unlike Volkov, Cubic does not offer
> "transparent" access to the prompt, I can't get back to arachne :-(
>
> I know of no player that offers the prompt while playing.
>
> Ahh... too bad they never considered browsing while using thier player!
>
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