Playing CDs with Grip
Grip functions as a full-featured CD player, as can be seen in Figure 1. Tracks can be selected by clicking on them with the left mouse button. Double-clicking will select the track, and begin playing it.
CD Player Controls
Underneath the "LCD" display is a panel of buttons that allow you to control CD playing in Grip. These buttons function as follows:
- Play/Pause — Causes the selected track to play if it is stopped or paused. If a track is currently playing, it will go into pause mode.
- Rewind — While this button is held down, Grip will move backward in the currently playing track.
- FastForward — While this button is held down, Grip will more forward in the currently playing track.
- Previous track — If a track is currently playing near the beginning of a track, this will rewind to the beginning. Otherwise, it will skip to the previous track.
- Next track — This will skip to the next track.
- Track Mode — This brings up the track mode interface, described in the Section called Track Mode Selector.
- Stop — Stops track playback.
- Eject — Opens or closes the cdrom tray.
- Scan disc contents — Causes Grip to force a scan of the current CD as if it were just inserted (useful if you have polling for a new disc turned off).
- Volume — Toggles display of the volume control slider interface.
- Track Edit — This brings up the track editing interface described in ...
- DiscDB — This initiates lookup of the CD over the network, or aborts a disc lookup currently in progress.
- Min/Max — Toggles between the "full" and "cd-only" (shown in Figure 2) display modes.
- Quit — Exits Grip.
Track Mode Selector
The track mode selection interface (shown in Figure 3) allows you to control how Grip plays the tracks on a CD. The following options are available:
- Normal Mode — In this mode, tracks will be played in normal, numbered order.
- Random Mode — In this mode, tracks will be played in a random order.
- Playlist Mode — In this mode, track will be played in an order you specify. In the text entry box, entry a list of comma separated list of the tracks you wish to play.
- Loop Mode — In loop mode, when playback finishes it will then resume at the beginning again.
- Single Play Mode — In this mode, when playback finishes it will not begin again.
