Overview
CD-Master

CDMaster brings order in your CDROMcollection. Do you also have the problem trying to start the program in your windowsprogrammanager which is not on the CD loaded in your CDdrive ?

CDMaster solves this problem for you. CDMaster detects the CD in your drive and creates an own group for every CD, with the same name. CDMaster changes the groups if you change the CD.

Other Subjects :

Use of CD-Master

Installation

Setup

Preferences

Help on error

Copyright - Information

Shareware - Information


Installation

CDMaster does only work if it is installed on a harddisk. If you start CDMaster from an other drive than a harddisk, CDMaster asks you if you want to install CDMaster.

You can accept the proposed destination-path or choose an other one. The path is build up automatically and all necessary files are copied. CDMaster installs its programicon into the AUTOSTART group of the programmanager.

To ensure that CDMaster can detect the CDdrive correctly the MCIDriver [MCI] CDAUDIO has to be installed. For more information about the driver ask your windows manual.

If you break off installation the program will be terminated.


Setup

If CDMaster does not know the Letter of the CDdrive, it asks you about it in this menu.

In the most cases CDMaster detect the right letter of the CDDRIVE automatically. In this case CDMaster ask you if its right, otherwise you have to type in the right letter.

CDMaster does not check the correctness of your input ! If your input is wrong, CDMaster won't work correctly !


Optionen
Preferences

Within the PREFERENCES you can configure and adapt CDMaster in in the own way you want.

You can open the DialogueWindow "PREFERENCES" in the mainmenue of CDMaster.

CDDrive (Drivename  letter):

Here you can change the letter of your drive. If you don't make any changes conditions are the as in the setupmenue.

Check  Intervall:

CDMaster checks the status of the CDDrive in a certain intervall. Here you can set the lenght of this intervall which can reach from 1 up to 65 seconds. Every check of the status of your CDDrive needs CPU power. That means if you choose a short intervall length your computer is getting a little bit slower as if you choose a longer intervall length. Otherwise, if you choose an intervalllength which is too long, CDMaster detects a change in the drive status perhapse a little bit later.

Default is 5 seconds.

Group Name

Here you can set the name of the group CDMaster is working with.

Default is : 'CDMaster'

Representation of the group

Here you can choose in which way (after the change of the CD) CDMaster represents the actual group within programmanager

 Icon : The Group is reduced to an Icon

 Normal : The Group is Shown in its normal size

 Big : The Group is enlarged and fills out the whole programmanagerscreen

Default is : Icon


Function of CD-Master

Look at Chapter : Use of CD-Master


Shareware - Information

If you use the program frequently, please be honest and register !

You can register for just 20 DM (+postage and packaging). Then you can use CDMaster legally. You receive the actual version of CDMaster, which maybe contains a few functions more than your Shareware version now. CopyrightConditions count for the full version in the same way as for your Shareware version.

It is easy to register :

Print out the " Register Card" and fill it out in a readable way.  After this, send it with the corresponding amount (cheque or cash) to me. Then, I will send the full version of CDMaster registered on your name to you.


Copyright - Information
Copyright - Hinweise

Copyright 1993 by

Olaf Panz

Drosselgasse 4

D-21436 Marschacht

Germany

CDMaster was programmed with Borland C++3.1. All graphics were drawn with CorelDraw, and designed with the help of CorelDrawClipart. The HelpDocuments were written with WordPerfect.

This program is distributed as Shareware !

Thanx to Thomas Sautter for painting the CD in the Icon and to Oliver Annuß for translating the program into english.

Also thanx to my girlfriend Gabi for all the Sympathy.

I have programed CDMaster by my best knowledge, but I cannot garanty an absolute smooth working without any failures and errors. The author of CDMaster can not be made responsible for any kind of errors or failures occuring during the work with CDMaster and the author can also not be made responsible for any kinds of errors resulting out of the use of CDMaster.

You use CDMASTER on your own risk !

If you have some problems with CDMaster or if you have some useful suggestions about improving

CDMaster, please contact me.

It is only allowed to distribute CDMaster with all its original files. These are :

CDMASTER.EXE

MASTER-D.WRI

MASTER-E.WRI

MASTER-D.HLP

MASTER-E.HLP


Help on error

CDMaster does not detect any CD :

 Do you have installed the CDdriver corrctly ?

 Does the drive work correctly ?

 Do you have installed the [MCI] CDAUDIO driver and does this driver work correctly ?

CDMaster does not detect a few Music CD :

 some Music CD's, especially those with some scratches, can cause problems.


Use of CD-Master

What is "CDMaster" ?

CDMaster is a tool which releaves the handling of your CDdrive. CDMaster creates for every CD which is loaded in your drive an individual group within the windowsprogrammanager. The highlight is that only the group which belongs to the CD in the drive is shown. All other groups are inactive. The name of the group is always the same : "CDMaster" (until you change it : Preferences).


Uninstallation of CD-MASTER
Uninstall

Pleas don't uninstall !


Work with CD-Master

Please look : Use of CD-Master