Operating Instructions for Komorebi


About Box

About box
When Komorebi starts up for the first time, it will display an about box, with an option for you to register. The about box can be accessed at any time later on.
Clicking the small button left of my url will launch your web browser and point it toward my website.
Clicking the small button left of my email address will launch your email program and point it toward my email address.
Upon closing the about box you'll see the main window and a playback window.

Main window

Main window

When Komorebi starts up, it may take a few seconds to scan its playlist. So please don't be alarmed if it takes a while to show up.

Track selector
Track display shows the currently loaded track.
Track Dialog
Clicking on the track display will pop up the track selector. You can then directly select the track you want to play.
Status bar The status bar displays playback time and additional information.
Dict A dictionary entry has been found for this track.
Tag An info chunk has been found for this track.
Video This track has been determined to be a video file (AVI, MOV, MPG, MPEG).
Audio This track has been determined to be an audio file.

Here are descriptions for the control buttons:

Playlist Editor Pops up the Playlist Editor.
Dictionary Editor Pops up the Dictionary Editor.
Continuous Continuous play. If this is turned off. Playback stops at the end of the file, regardless of the other options.
Loop Looping play.
Random Random play.
About About Komorebi. Register through this window.
Help Help. Exactly what you're reading right now.
Home Rewind to beginning. If you press it at the beginning of the file, it will open the track above it.
Rewind Reverse scan. Cancel scanning by pressing play or stop.
Play Start playback.
Fast Forward Forward scan. Cancel scanning by pressing play or stop.
Next Play the next track.
Stop Stop playback.
Pause Pause playback.

Playlist Editor

Playlist Editor
On running Komorebi the first time, you will notice there are no tracks to play. Press the Playlist Editor button, or simply drag and drop files and directories onto the main window. This will pop up the playlist editor. Drag and drop additional files and directories and it will build a list for you. Please be cautious when dragging large directories, since the editor will scan all the subdirectories. Duplicates will be automatically rejected.
'del' key or "delete" button will delete the selected tracks. Multiple-selection delete is possible.

Dictionary Editor

Dictionary Editor
Well, having a whole bunch of files to play around is nice and fine, but I don't particularly like looking at filenames such as g:\abbey_road\here_comes_the_sun.wav. So a convertion method is in order. Press the Dictionary Editor button to use the dictionary editor. Dragging files into the dictionary editor will generate a list of files for conversion mapping. This will let you edit its filename vs. friendly name. As with the Playlist Editor, duplicate filenames will be automatically rejected. The editor is CJK code compatible. To change an entry, simply double click or press the space key on an item.
Pressing 'del' key or "delete" button will delete the selected entry. Only single-selection delete is possible.
Note that the conversion is totally optional, if Komorebi cannot find a dictionary entry for the file it will simply use the filename for display.

INFO Chunk

If the file has a valid INFO chunk. The dictionary will be overridden! You can edit the INFO chunk with the included RIFFTagger utility. This is another way for Komorebi to find a friendly name. Just set the "Name" field to whatever you want and Komorebi will display it when playing the file.

RIFFTagger is still experimental. Please check its documentation before using.

This should be sufficient to get you up and running. Enjoy!