# Chapter 2. Onscreen fundamentals

# 2.1. Basic Operation

This is the main window of KSCD . You should see something like this when you start KSCD . The controls in this window are explained below, in no particular order.

## 2.1.1. The Control Panel

This is the main control panel for KSCD . The function of these buttons should be familiar to anyone who has ever used a CD player.

The uppermost button in the above diagram toggles between playing and pausing the CD. The left button in the second row stops playing the CD. The right button in the second row toggles looping, so that the CD will start playing again from the beginning when the end of the last audio track is reached. The buttons in the third row advance the CD backward (left) or forward (right) 30 seconds. The buttons in the fourth row skip forward (right) or backward (left) to the beginning of the next or previous track.

## 2.1.2. The eject button

This button ejects the CD. Note that the eject button on your CD-ROM drive may not respond if an audio CD is in the drive and KSCD is started. Some very old CD-ROM drives may not support software eject. You may also have to close the CD-ROM drive manually after inserting a new disc.

## 2.1.3. The Status display

This is the status display. Starting at the top, from right to left, is the main time display (see below for a discussion of the various possible time display modes), the status of the CD-ROM drive, the total play time of the audio CD, the current volume setting, and the current and maximum track numbers (curr./max.). The bottommost two lines of text display the artist and title of the CD, and then the title of the track, assuming that appropriate entries exist in the local or network CDDB (CD Data Base.)

## 2.1.4. Time display modes

This button toggles between the possible main time display modes. By default, KSCD displays the elapsed time of the current track, if the CD is playing, or either --:-- or 00:00 if the CD is not playing. Pressing this button toggles in sequence between remaining track time, total elapsed time, and total remaining time.

## 2.1.5. The Configuration button

This button opens the KSCD configuration panel. This allows you to configure KSCD to work on your machine. See the configuring KSCD section, for details about configuring KSCD

## 2.1.6. The CDDB button

This button opens the CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base) entry editor panel.

The CDDB can identify your CD and often download a list of tracks for that CD or load it from the filesystem. See the CD Database Editor section for more details about using this tool.

## 2.1.7. The information button

This button will help you search for information about the artist on the Internet. You can find out about performance dates, purchase information, and other information by pressing this button and choosing the appropriate option in the pop-up menu that appears.

## 2.1.8. The exit button

This button closes KSCD .

## 2.1.9. The volume slider

This slider controls the volume of the audio output of the CD. Right is louder, left is quieter. If you are playing your CD through your sound card, the sound card mixer will affect the playback volume as well.

## 2.1.10. The randomise button

This button plays the CD tracks in random order.

## 2.1.11. The track selector

This combo box lets you directly select a track to play.