1@(#)README 6.185 04/01/02 2 3README 4------ 5 6Xmcd is a full-featured CD player and ripper utility package including 7xmcd, a CD Player/Ripper for the X window system using the Motif graphical 8user interface; and cda, a command-line driven, text mode CD Player/Ripper 9which also features a curses-based, screen-oriented mode. Both utilities 10transform your computer's CD or DVD drive into a stereo CD player, 11allowing you to play audio CDs on your computer. On many platforms 12with capable hardware, these utilities can also perform digital audio 13extraction (DAE) from audio CDs and play the CD digital audio (CDDA) 14stream real-time, save it to file in various compressed and uncompressed 15formats, as well as pipe it to an external program for other processing. 16More than one CDDA operation can even be be done simultaneously on systems 17and peripherals with sufficient performance. 18 19The following is a summary of xmcd/cda documentation files. Please 20read these before installing and using the software. 21 22Many of these files refer to the XMCDLIB directory, which is the 23directory under which all the xmcd/cda support files are installed. 24This is configured when you install the xmcd package. 25 26The documentation files are located in the docs_d subdirectory in the 27xmcd source code distribution, and are copied to the XMCDLIB/docs 28directory during installation. 29 30README This file 31INSTALL Source code compilation and installation instructions (*) 32INSTALL.VMS Special instructions for the OpenVMS platform (*) 33FEATURES Software features 34RELNOTES Important release notes 35PLATFORM Supported platforms and platform-specific notes 36DRIVES Supported CD drives and drive-specific notes 37CDDB Information about the Gracenote CDDB(R) service and its use 38PRIVACY Gracenote CDDB(R) service privacy statement 39WEB Xmcd's wwwWarp and other web-related information 40FAQ Frequently Asked Questions, and answers 41CHANGES Revision log 42COPYING GNU General Public License (for xmcd and cda in general) (*) 43PORTING Porting xmcd to other platforms (*) 44ACKS Acknowledgements 45 46You can view these files directly, or use the xmcd's help system. 47The files denoted with (*) are included only in the source code 48distribution of xmcd. 49 50After installation, you can use the man(1) or xman(1) command to read 51the on-line manual entry for xmcd(1) and cda(1). Also, you may also 52view the xmcd man page using the xmcd wwwWarp system on your web browser. 53 54This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is 55a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative. For information 56about the Open Source Initiative, visit: http://www.opensource.org 57 58This distribution is released under the GNU General Public License. 59Please see the COPYING file for details. The GNU GPL does not apply 60to the Gracenote CDDB� interface library, nor does it apply to the 61LabelHack widget from John L. Cwikla. 62 63Xmcd and cda uses the LAME encoder software for CD ripping to the MP3 64format. Similarly, the FAAC encoder software is used for the MPEG-2, 65MPEG-4 AAC and MP4 formats. Please note that due to patents pertaining 66to the MP3, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 technologies, it may be illegal to 67download and use the LAME and FAAC encoder software without incurring 68licensing royalties in some countries. MP3 is currently licensed by 69Thomson (http://www.mp3licensing.com), while MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC are 70licensed by Via Licensing Corporation (http://www.vialicensing.com), 71a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories. It is for this reason that LAME 72and FAAC are not included in xmcd's source code or pre-compiled binary 73kits. You must download and install them separately in order to enable 74the MP3, AAC and MP4 file formats in xmcd. 75 76Likewise, xmcd and cda uses the Ogg Vorbis and FLAC encoder libraries 77for these respective formats. However, since these formats are fully 78open, patent-and-royalty-free; the pre-compiled xmcd binary kits from 79the official xmcd web site have the appropriate libraries statically 80linked. You do not need to download and install these libraries when 81using the xmcd pre-compiled binary kits to get enable these formats. 82 83If you are compiling xmcd from the source code, you must download and 84install the Ogg Vorbis and FLAC library packages. See the INSTALL file 85for details. 86 87Please refer to the official xmcd "Downloads" web site for links to sites 88that offer source code and pre-compiled binaries of LAME, Ogg Vorbis, 89FLAC and FAAC. 90 91