Short:    Send music to player via ARexx. Run player if not open.
Author:   lund@kiku.dk (Mikael Lund)
Uploader: ki9656@unidhp.uni-c.dk (Mikael Lund)
Version:  1.2
Requires: A musicplayer - see KNOWN_PLAYERS below
Type:     mus/play

INFORMATION

   Small ARexx/DOS script that will send a musicfile to a player in memory
   via ARexx (10 players known). If the player is not loaded, PlayTune will
   try to do so.
   Handy when you want to play tunes from shell, or can be installed as
   a button in Directory Opus etc.


REQUIREMENTS

   1) RexxMast running
   2) One of the known moduleplayers (See KNOWN_PLAYERS)
   

INSTALLATION

   Doubleclick on the install-icon
   (Or copy PlayTune#? to S: by hand)


CONFIGURATION

   - Delitracker2 and Eagleplayer2 users can skip this part!

   - Sending tunes to a pre-loaded player doesn't require any
     configuration.

   - Loading players into memory requires you to alter the first
     lines in "S:PlayTune".


USAGE

   CLI:     PlayTune MODULE,NEXT/S,PAUSE/S,EJECT/S,QUIT/S,QUIET/S

   MODULE   File to be played
   NEXT/S   Play next subsong
   PAUSE/S  Toggles playing on/off
   EJECT/S  Remove module from memory
   QUIT/S   Quit player
   QUIET/S  Suppress text-output & useractivity

   If no file is selected, a requester will be opened (v39+).


KNOWN_PLAYERS

   PLAYER            AUTOCFG  PLAY  NEXT PAUSE EJECT  QUIT
   -------------------------------------------------------
   Delitracker2         x      x     x     x     x     x
   Eagleplayer2         x      x     x     x     x     x
   Eagleplayer1.x              x     x     x     x     x
   Hippoplayer                 x     x     x     x     x
   PowerPlayer                 x           x     x     x
   AModPlayer                  x           x     x     x
   Multi_Player*               x           x     x     x
   MultiPlayer**               x           x     x     x
   DOpus5+                     x
   PlaySID3                    x           x           x

    * By Thomas Landspurg
   ** By Bryan Ford


DISTRIBUTION

   Freeware ... but a notice would be nice!


HISTORY

   1.2 23-Sep-98
       - Added PowerPlayer support

   1.1 31-Aug-98
       - First release.


AUTHOR

   Mikael Lund
   Ægirsgade 66, 2TH.
   2200 Kbh. N.
   Denmark

   ki9656@unidhp.uni-c.dk
   lund@kiku.dk

   See also my tool "util/arc/viewdiz.lha"

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