The
CD Player and the MiniPlayer are two quite intuitive applications,
and they are capable of doing most of the functions you can do with
in ordinary CD-player.
The MiniPlayer is best described as a "remote control"
for the CD Player. It is only designed to do playbacks. If you need
to customize, shuffle or record something from the audio cd, you
will have to use the more feature rich CD Player application.

The CD Player also contains some goodies, that most CD Player applications
don't have:
CD information
The CD Player has features for letting you add the name of the CD
and the artist, and last but not least, the names of all the tracks.
All this information will be saved in /boot/home/cd/, and
the next time you listen to the cd, the information will be automatically
retrieved.
The CD daemon replicant has an Internet lookup feature, and lets
you retrieve CDDB information about the audio cd you have in your
player. The daemon will in an easy way let you choose what song
to play, and you can set it to start playing automatically as an
CD gets put in to the player and shuffle the songs on the cd. It
also has a volume control that lets you set a different level on
the playback than on the system. The feature menu is opened by right-clicking
the icon in the Deskbar.

The CD daemon shows a small information tag as a new songs get
plaid or when you left-click on the mouse.
Harddisk recording
With CD Player you can rip your CDs to the following formats:
- AIFF/Raw Audio
- MP3/BladeEnc MP3 Encoder
- wav/Raw Audio

You don't have to rip complete tracks. You can also define the
track segment you want to rip, by dragging the left and right arrows
back and forth. Clicking the Preview button would then let you listen
to the segment you have chosen. When you have find the right section,
you click Save and you enter the segment a suitable name and where
to save it.
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