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//              AURION S.R.L
//      sdlmusicmng - 2001 <info@aurion-tech.com>
//              -- a new way to see the music --

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1. General

   this software is an SDL Graphical User Interface to handle the mp3 player, wav player, audio CD played. We choose SDL because of we desire to reach a GUI usable either on CRT monitors eithar on PAL / NTSC TV. In the following sections with the symbol '$' I mean 'Bash Prompt'.

2. Before Compiling

   Before all ensure you have : autoconf version 2.52 and automake version 1.5 If you haven't you can download it form

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/

   1. Encuse the set properly the following lines in main.h

      char *defaultpaths[NUM_PATHS] = {

      "/home/archiviomp3", // Default mp3 archive directory "/home/listemp3", // Default mp3 list files directory "/home/wav", // Default wav archive directory "/home/listewav", // Default wav list files directory "/tmp/CurrDirmkisofs.img", // you don't need to create it "/tmp/CurrListmkisofs.img", // you don't need to create it }; If you set properly the use of the tool will be easier. So be sure the upper directories and files exit.

   2. Ensure you have pvaw123; this tool allows to you to play .wav audio files.

      If you haven't you can download it form http://www.aurion-tech.com/pwav123/ Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   3. Ensure you have mpg123 Version 0.59r or newer.

      If you haven't you can download it form http://www-ti.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~hippm/mpg123.html Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   4. Ensure you have Cdrecord 1.9 or newer.

      If you haven't you can download it form http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   5. Ensure you have mkisofs 1.13 or newer.If you haven't you need cdrecord suite.
   6. Ensure you have cdda2wav. If you haven't you need cdrecord suite.
   7. Ensure you have lame version 3.70 or newer.

      If you haven't you can download it form http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   8. Ensure you have libSDL version 1.2.0 or newer.

      If you haven't you can download it form http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.html Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   9. Ensure you have GUILib version 1.1.0 or newer.

      If you haven't you can download it form http://www.libsdl.org/projects/GUIlib/index.html Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   10. Ensure you have SDL_image version 1.2.0 or newer.

       If you haven't you can download it form http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/index.html Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

   11. Ensure you have CDDB_get-1.66 or newer.

       If you haven't you can download it form http://armin.emx.at/cddb/ Follow the instructions in INSTALL and/or README file to install it.

3. Building

   Extract the arnmusicmanager-0.2.tar.gz in a your favourite directory (i.e. /usr/local/src). Type : $ cd /usr/local/src/arnmusicmanager-0.2 Type : $ ./configure Type : $ make Copy the src/arnmusicmanager in bin/arnmusicmanager

4. Install

   Choose your favourite installation directory (i.e. /opt/arnmusicmanager-0.2). Type : $ cd /opt/arnmusicmanager-0.2 Type : $ mkdir bin Copy arnmusicmanager form /usr/local/src/arnmusicmanager-0.2 to /opt/arnmusicmanager-0.2/bin Copy the directory /usr/local/src/arnmusicmanager-0.2/share to /opt/arnmusicmanager-0.2

5. Running

   For debugging reason run the program from a terminal with current dir in /opt/arnmusicmanager-0.2/bin. When debug is finished we make it path indipendent.