Opus MPEGA 3.1+ PPC Plug-Ins
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Warning! English translation by http://www.systransoft.com

V2.0
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New 16 color palette. Faster loading.

Introduction
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This Plugins for OpusMPEGA 3.1+ represents a new graphic user surface
to be seen as in the enclosed picture.  The OpusMPEGA enclosed
buttonbank is replaced.

Installation 
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The installation effected with the enclosed install script, doubleclicks
the Icon Install-English.  You can copy alternatively the drawers into
the directories of the same name of Opus5.
A query, whether Newicons are installed, does not take place!
You should install the Newicons package in the newest version
beforehand, without this are not representable the new GUI!

Call
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First Setup (Prefs/OpusMPEGA).
The new GUI is called over the OpusMPEGA appicon with selection of the
menu option 'Player buttons'.  
Directly in the Opus5 menu you can call it over the point 'button/loading'
and selection of the file 'OpusMPEGA_image.digital'.
The call can be merged also into the Opus5 user menu or any Opus5 button
bank.  In the function editor then the following line is to be input:
- LoadButtons OpusMPEGA_image.digital

Usage
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In the upper series 7 buttons are, with the following functions:

-ADD Button
 Selects one or more mp3 audio Songs in a Opus5-Lister. With operation
 of this Buttons these are transferred to the OpusMPEGA playerlister and
 added to possibly available entries. 
 If no playerlister is available, this is first opened.  Music playback
 starts automatically.
 If OpusMPEGA does not run at all yet (no Appicon), it over the Button
 started.

-Abort Button
 A current playback is aborted. Subsequently, the Playerlister is closed.
 All selections or entries are lost.

-Stop Button
 A current playback is aborted.
 The Playerlister window remains opened.

-Play Button
 Playback is continued with the aborted title.

- Previous Button
 Like the name already says, playback with the previous title is continued.
 If playback still runs, this is beforehand aborted.

-NEXT Button
 Exact as before, only in reverse.

-Quit Button
 Like the abort button. Additionally OpusMPEGA is terminated, which Appicon
 likewise removed.
 
The underlying symbols are likewise selectable, and offer the
following functions:

-Opus Icon
 Information window to OpusMPEGA call. Here you can call the adjustments
 and the Guide.

-Cassette symbol 
 Thereby is opened a Filerequester, where you can select a mp3 file directly.
 If the Applications Icon should not be represented (Opus MPEGA is not started
 yet), beforehand the ADD Button is to be clicked!

-MP3 symbol
 To the Song at the moment playing are output possibly available mp3 day
 information in a Requester.  Additionally or for mp2 Songs information to
 the playtime, compression, samplerate etc. are output.


Background information
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If you look at yourself the plug-ins more near, you will determine the
this a normal graphic Opus5 button bank explain.  The graphic user
surface is from 14! Newicons assembled. Each of the 14 fields, which
represents a button, calls the arexx script defined in the function
editor. Exception is the ADD Button, this calls the internal Opus5
instruction.

If you can serve the Opus5 buttonbank editor, and over a paint program,
can you order any new GUI create itself.  You find some suggestions for
it on the OpusMPEGA homepage (Plug-ins PAGE). If you have to offer own
ideas, suggestions or finished pictures, you can perpetuate this in the
guest book!

OpusMPEGA
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This Opusmodul implements a complete MPEG audio player with own playing window.
Displays appicon, opens a new lister, shows the runtime on a progressbar and
a timecounter. The functions play and stop, next or previous title, load,
quit and cancel are available with the graphic button bank like a CD player.

Supports the MPEGA player by Stéphane Tavenard, PPCMpegPlayer for PPC boards,
MPEG cards Melody & Peggy plus, and all sound cards with AHI audio system.
DOpus5-filetypes for MPEG Layer-2, MPEG Layer-3 and Wave MPEG Layer-3 included

Scriptes localized (include deutsch, english, dansk, français,
italiano, nederlands, norsk, suomi & svenska catalog).

Author
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OpusMPEGA 3.1  ©1995-98 by Eckhard Ludwig
Homepage: http://opusmpega.home.pages.de
EMail: Eckhard@top.east.de

Requirements
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-Directory Opus V5.5, Directory Opus Magellan recommended
-mpega V3.3 or later (©1997 by Stéphane Tavenard)
-optional PPCMpegPlayer for a PowerUP compatible system with ppc.library

Distribution
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OpusMPEGA and plug-ins is Freeware!
If you find this program useful, then send me a email.