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From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith (Telecommuting))
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Subject: Re: CD-DA playlist length?
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 23:39:28 GMT
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On Mon, 02 Feb 1998 22:13:48 +0000, James Shaughnessy
<james@manc.u-net.com> wrote:
>Hello,

Wotcher.

>I have started messing around with CdPlay() as a simple CD-player
>and have no problems getting it to work perfectly, but I just
>need a way of finding out how many tracks are on the CD, in order
>to play all of them without getting 'track overflow' errors by using
>a typical maximum (like 14).

The function you need to do that is in the pro libraries only. (That's
unless there's a grim way to use CdSearchFile to do it, but I don't
think so.)

>The manual says nothing of this, but then the manual says on P318:
>"Performance and stopping etc. in mid track is not possible."
>Which is CLEARLY merde when all you do is use CdPlay(0, ...) DOH!

Translated from the Japanese... I imagine it means you can't skip
forward into the next track, or pause and resume within a track.
CdPlay(0) presumably stops it dead.

- Gil