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HACP is a simple but handy CD player with support for freedb (the alternative for CDDB), CD TEXT, multiple CDROM drives, Key2Audio fix. The program has 2 different interfaces - a normal view and a very basic "tiny view", and it can also be minimized to the tray.

CD is a *tiny*, (only 10K! 5K zip file download) simple but fully functional CD player with standard controls that include - Restart CD, Move back a track, Move forward a track Play/Pause, Stop. The display shows the current track and the current time position within that track. Clicking the minimize button will hide the main window and create an icon in the system tray. Resting the cursor over this icon shows the current track and the total number of tracks available in the form of a tooltip.

CD Scratch is a FREE, funky and incredibly fun "Virtual Turntables CD Player" that performs the seemingly impossible! Play two songs from the same CD at the same time - one forwards and one in reverse! Scratch a CD track back and forth like a record, or listen to your favorite CD automatically mixed between the turntables. Perfect for music lovers and aspiring DJs, CD Scratch is less than 1Mb to download FREE for life! (No spyware, no banner ads).

Squeak is a small audio CD player with an intuitive interface that will also take command line options. For those of you that like to work and listen to CDs at the same time, but don't because your media player hogs too many resources and makes the use of other applications close to immpossible, this is application for you!

CD player for Windows 95 that includes CDPLAYER.INI editor with no limits, digital display, great position changing possibilities, fade in & out, shuffle, scan and single modes of playing, repeat possible, programming: any part of track can be put in program with its own volume settings and fade in and out, big resizable display with resizable components, alarm and sleep options, can be minimized to system tray occupying only small amount of memory and still including all Maximus possibilities.

Resides in the Notify area of the taskbar in Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0. Fast left-click operation (configurable). Features right-click menu with all common CD actions and a Tracks menu including the names of all tracks on the current CD. Artist, title, track and time (optional) displayed in Tooltip. Icon show current CD status. Programmed play, Random play, Repeated play, Repeat track, Set Absolute Position, Skip. Support for multiple CD-ROM devices. Database editor with export/import functions. Compatible with CDPLAYER.EXE. Can handle autoplay etc. Compatible with the track list used by CDPLAYER.EXE. Can use an CDDB or ODBC database for the disc database instead of INI file.

FreeCD is a fully graphical, mouse-driven audio CD player. FreeCD is compact, intuitive, and (soon to be) fully customizable. Its interface and controls are very straightforward and practically explain themselves.

CDDB is an Internet database currently consisting of more than 57,000 discs. It is available both in a Local version or a Remote (both direct and using HTTP) version where the plug-in queries one of the servers available on the Internet. It has a repository which makes it possible to submit new discs.