Copyright: Copyright 1993, Multimedia Products Corp.


The Music Finder

Use the Music Finder to browse through the hundreds of musical clips that are on the CD. You can audition the sounds and attach them to system events.

Related Topics

The Music Finder Window

The Menu Bar

The Attach Dialog Box

The Find Dialog Box


The Music Finder Window

The lower portion of the Music Finder window has four sections and a Play/Stop button. Click on their names, below, to learn more about each of them.

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Categories

Selections

Info

Notes

Play/Stop Button


Categories

Click on this section to browse through the sounds by their categories. As you scroll through the list, the selections for each category are displayed in the Selections list.

Highlight [All Categories] to display all the selections on the disc.


Selections

The selections for the selected category appear here. Each selection represents a unique musical clip. Use the scroll bar to browse through all the available selections.

If the highlighted selection has an additional description, it appears in the Notes section of the Music Finder window.


Info section of the Music Finder window
Info

Important information about the highlighted musical clip appears in this section. Look here to see the filename of the musical clip, whether it is 8 or 16 bit resolution, how much time it takes to play in minutes, seconds and tenths of seconds, and its sampling rate.


Notes

Usually, the category and selection names give you a general description of the selected musical clip. If any additional information is available, it appears in this section.


Play/Stop--Music Finder Window
Play/Stop Button

After selecting a file, click the Play button in the lower right corner of the Music Finder window to hear how it sounds. This is the same as using the Play command on the File menu.

Once a file is playing , this button changes to a Stop button. Click on it to stop playing the current musical clip. This can also be used to discontinue the playing of random musical clips.


The Menu Bar

In addition to accessing the on-line help and exiting Music Finder, the four pull-down menus enable you to activate the commands that search, audition, and attach selected sounds to events.

Click on the name of the menu to learn more about it.

Related Topics

File

Copy

Search

Help


The File menu
File

The items in this menu enable you to play the highlighted musical clip, attach it to an event, or to exit the Music Finder program.

Related Topics

Play

Stop

Attach

Random

Exit


File menu--Play
Play

Use Play to help you hear the sounds as you browse through the selections. You can also play a sound by double-clicking its selection, or by clicking the Play button in the lower right corner of the Music Finder window.


File menu--Stop
Stop

The Stop command allows you to stop the playing of a musical clip at any time. You can also do this by clicking the Stop button in the lower right corner of the Music Finder window.


File menu--Attach
Attach

Select this item to open the Attach dialog box and attach musical clips to system events.


File menu--Random
Random

You can use this command to randomly play, in jukebox style, all different kinds of musical clips. A checkmark appears next to the command to indicate that it is selected. The playing of sounds will continue until you deselect Random by either clicking on it again, or by clicking Stop.


File menu--Exit
Exit

Click Exit to close the Music Finder window and exit the application. A dialog box appears which asks you if you're sure that you want to quit.


The Copy menu
Copy

The Copy menu items allow you copy the musical clips files to the hard drive or the names of the files to the Windows clipboard.

Related Topics

Copy File to Hard Drive

Copy Name to Clipboard


Copy menu--Copy File to Hard Drive
Copy File to Hard Drive

You may want to use some of the musical clips files with other software on your computer. When you select this item, a standard file dialog box appears which allows you to specify the destination to which you want the file to be copied.


Copy menu--Copy Name to Clipboard
Copy Name to Clipboard

If you want to use the name of the sound file in a document or in a dialog box, copy it to the clipboard. You can then paste it into the document or dialog box in which you want to use the file name.


The Search menu
Search

The Search menu items allow you find a musical clip file without having to browse through the database sequentially.

Related Topics

Find

Find Next

Find Prev


Search menu--Find
Find

Click this item to open the Find dialog box.


Search menu--Find Next
Find Next

When you have already found a musical clip file that matches the search criteria, the Find Next command searches for the next effect that matches your specification without opening the Find dialog box.


Search menu--Find Prev
Find Prev

When you have already found a musical clip file that matches the search criteria, the Find Prev command searches for a previous effect that matches your specification without opening the Find dialog box.


The Help menu
Help

The Help menu is similar to the standard Help menu found in Windows based software.

Related Topics

Help

About


Help menu--Help
Help

Click this item to open the help file you are looking at now.


About Music Finder
About

This item displays Music Finder's current version number and copyright information.


The Attach Dialog Box

The Attach dialog box contains the following sections.

Related Topics

Sound Files

System Events

Buttons


Sound Files

Use the Sound Files scrolling list to browse through the files on the CD-ROM disc or on your hard drive.

When you open the dialog box, the file name of the current musical clip is highlighted. You can select another file or even switch to another drive or directory to select a different sound file.


System Events

The System Events list displays all the system events and the file names of the musical clips attached to them. If the word [Nothing] is displayed near an event, it has no attached musical clip.


Buttons--Attach Dialog Box
Buttons

The buttons on the right start the commands that perform the necessary functions.

Related Topics

Find

Test

Stop

Attach

Free

Help

Done


Find--Attach Dialog Box
Find

The Find button opens the Find dialog box, which enables you to search for a specific musical clip.


Test

Before attaching a file to an event, use the Test button to play the file and determine if it is indeed the sound you want to use.


Stop button--Attach Dialog Box
Stop

To stop playing a file before it is finished, click the Stop button.


Attach button in Attach Dialog Box
Attach

When you are finished selecting the file, click this button to attach the selected file to a system event. The button is not active if the selected event already has a sound attached to it. When you attach a file to an event, it is automatically copied to the hard drive.

If an error message states that there is not enough memory to attach the file, you can try to free up additional memory by closing other open applications. If that doesn't help, you must Free the file to avoid getting this error message repeatedly as you run Windows.


Free

If you want to remove a sound file from a system event or want to assign a different file to the event, you must first free the event. When you free an event, the name of the sound file displayed near the event is removed and the word [Nothing] is displayed. The button is only active when the selected event is attached to a musical clip.


Help--Attach Dialog Box
Help

This button accesses the on-line help which you are looking at now.


Done--Attach Dialog Box
Done

When you are finished, click Done to close the Attach dialog box.


The Find Dialog Box

This dialog box appears when you either select Find in the Search menu, or click the Find button in the attach dialog box.

Related Topics

Search For

Look In

Info

Buttons


Search For

Enter the search criteria in this text entry box.


Look In

Specify whether  you are looking for the search criteria in the list of category names, selection names, notes, or in all of them.


Info--Find Dialog Box
Info

When a musical clip that matches the search criteria is found, the file information appears in this section. The information includes the filename of the musical clip, how much time it takes to play, whether it is 8 or 16 bit resolution, and its sampling rate.


Buttons--Find Dialog Box
Buttons

The four buttons at the bottom of the Find dialog box enable you to play the found musical clip and search for other musical clips that match the search criteria.

Related Topics

Stop

Play

Find Prev

Find Next

Done

Help


Stop--Find Dialog Box
Stop

To stop the playing of a musical clip before its completion, click the Stop button.


Play--Find Dialog Box
Play

When you find a musical clip, click Play to listen to how it sounds and determine if this musical clip is exactly what you want.


Find Prev--Find Dialog Box
Find Prev

If the musical clip currently being displayed in the Find dialog box is not the first occurrence in the database of  a musical clip that matches the search criteria, this button becomes active. Click it to search backward through the database for a musical clip that matches the search criteria.


Find Next--Find Dialog Box
Find Next

After entering the selection criteria, click Find Next to start searching the database for the first occurrence of a musical clip that matches the criteria.

Continue to click the button to search for more matches until no more are found.


Done--Find Dialog Box
Done

Click this button to close the Find dialog box.


Help--Find Dialog Box
Help

This button accesses the on-line help which you are looking at now.