PlayCDDA - Play audio CDs on your Amiga's audio.device
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Version 1.0    21-Nov-93   (C) 1993 by Frank Munkert
                           (ln_fmu@pki-nbg.philips.de)

INTRODUCTION

  PlayCDDA is a program for owners of Toshiba 3401 CDROM drives.
  These drives are capable of transferring CD-DA (digital audio)
  data over the SCSI bus. PlayCDDA reads this data and reproduces
  the corresponding sounds on the Amiga's audio.device.

DISCLAIMER

  This software is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind,
  either expressed or implied. In no event will the author be liable
  for direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages or data
  loss resulting from the use or application of this software. The
  entire risk as to the results and performance of this software is
  assumed by the user.

REQUIREMENTS

  AmiCDROM should work with any Amiga model which has a "SCSI-direct"
  compatible SCSI bus adapter. A Toshiba 3401 CDROM drive must be
  connected to the SCSI bus.
  
  Your SCSI bus setup must have a bandwidth of at least 173 KB/sec in
  order to transfer 44100 4-bit-samples per second. The higher the
  bandwidth, the better. Also, while running PlayCDDA there shouldn't
  be much other activity on the SCSI bus (e.g. hard disk accesses).

INSTALLATION

  Copy the file 'PlayCDDA' to your favourite location for executable
  programs.

USING PLAYCDDA

  Invocation from CLI
    You have to supply the name of your SCSI device and the
    SCSI unit number of your CDROM drive as arguments to PlayCDDA,
    e.g.
    
        PlayCDDA scsi.device 1

    invokes PlayCDDA with SCSI device name "scsi.device" and
    unit number 1.

  Invocation from WorkBench
    Edit the tooltype entries "DEVICE" and "UNIT" of the PlayCDDA icon
    such that they reflect your system setup.
    Double-click on the PlayCDDA icon.

  PlayCDDA communicates with the user over a simple graphical
  interface. Basically, you have to click at the button for the
  track you want to hear, and PlayCDDA starts playing this track
  on your Amiga's loudspeaker.

  The rest of the section explains the individual buttons of the
  user interface.
  
  "Start"
    Click at this button to play the first track. 
  
  "Stop"
    Stop playing.
  
  "1" ... "20"
    Click at on of these buttons to play the corresponding track.

  "Next"
    Plays the next track.
  
  "Prev"
    Plays the previous track.

  "Volume"
    Adjust the volume of the sound reproduction.

  "Sampling rate"
    The number of bytes per second that are sent to the audio.device.
    The higher the sampling rate the better the sound quality.

  "Buffers"
    Number of buffers. The higher the number of buffers, the lesser is
    the chance that the sound may be interrupted by other tasks with
    higher priority.

  You should adjust "Buffers" and "Sampling rate" to fit your system's
  need. On an Amiga 3000T with built-in SCSI device, the default settings
  should work.

CONTACTING THE AUTHOR

  Please send bug reports and suggestions to:

  Email:   ln_fmu@pki-nbg.philips.de

  Mail:    Frank Munkert
           Zum Froschbruecklein 5
           90411 Nuernberg
           Germany

  If you want to report an error, please describe your system
  configuration (Amiga model, SCSI device, PlayCDDA version number).