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***     Baseball Audiofile Player - Readme file     ***
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When you watch baseball on TV you have probably noticed
the sounds (organ jingles etc.) that are playing during
the game. I created this program for our baseball team
so we could do the same during our games using a laptop
computer and a simple audio amplifier and speakers.

This program allows you to create banks of soundeffects
you can play by pressing a button with your mouse or
just pressing one of the keys on your keyboard.
Pressing a number key (0-9) will switch the soundbank,
pressing a letter key (a-z) will play a sound.

The program uses a config file in which the the key-to-
sound mapping is specified. The sound files can be any-
where on the disk (a few are provided for demonstration
purposes, you'll have to find more yourself).

The config file looks like this (from supplied sample
version):

1
a = "DemoSounds\fartgun.wav"
b = "DemoSounds\explo.wav"
c = "DemoSounds\fbull.wav"
2
a = "DemoSounds\wwiii.wav"

A letter (a-z) followed by an equal ('=') sign assigns
a specific soundfile to a letter on the keyboard.
A number (0-9) indicates that a specific bank should be
used for the following sound/key assignments. In this
specific scenario fartgun.wav, explo.wav and fbull.wav
are assigned to keys a,b and c and are placed in bank 1
The wwiii.wav sound is assigned to key a and placed in
bank 2.

On startup the program will try to load the "playwav
.cfg" file but you can open alternate .cfg files from
the menus.

Instead of editing the config file by hand it is also
possible to activate an "Edit Mode" from the menus. When
edit mode is activated, clicking on one of the buttons
or pressing the appropriate key will bring up a "select
sound file" dialog in which you can select a sound file
(mp3 or wav) to assign to the specified key. After
assigning soundfiles this way you can save the config 
file (from the menu). Leave edit mode by selecting the
"Edit Mode" menu item again.

Use of this program is free for non-professional sports
organizations, only one thing is required:
-Send an e-mail with some information about your team
 (just for fun, I won't abuse the information).

Brian Postma
B.Postma@HetNet.nl
HTTP://www.brianpostma.com
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Changes:
Jan-2004: Added support for mp3 files
Jun-2005: Added edit mode and saving for config files