TrayList v3.0 -- A multifunctional plug-in for Winamp 2.x
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Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Theodor G. Ivanenko and
Intellized Computing Group. All rights reserved.


TrayList -- A plug-in for WinAmp
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TrayList is a WimAmp plug-in with a lot of features:

 1. Media organizer. Once launched, the plug-in searches for audiofiles in the folders you selected and displays them in the window in the hierarchical order. Audiofiles located in one folder can be grouped by the artist, by the album name, by the song name or by the genre. It is the easiest way to add songs to the playlist. You can add an album with just a couple of mouse clicks.

 2. HotKeys. You can control WinAmp using the keyboard no matter what application you are currently working with. Two keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to each action, which is very convenient for those having multimedia keyboards.

 3. HotHits. You can create up to 10 playlists and assign them to the keys Win+0..Win+9. It makes the selection of the needed playlist easier than ever.

 4. OnScreenDisplay (OSD). The plug-in displays the names of new songs and actions invoked by the hotkeys on the screeen. The position and view of the tips can be set by the user.

 5. Opacity (only in Windows 2000 and XP). For every Winamp window, as well as for the Traylist and OSD windows you can specify two opacity values - for the active and inactive window states.

 6. Now playing... The plug-in saves the name of the song that is playing now in WimAmp to the file you specify. It allows you to insert this information into your messages, etc. Besides, there is a "now playing" hot key that inserts the the song name into the place where the text cursor is at the moment.

 7. Autoplay. When WimAmp is started, the plug-in can start playing from the place where you left the song last time, or from the beginning of the song, or from the beginning of the playlist. If you put WinAmp into the 'Autostart' folder and specify the time for the computer to start in the BIOS, you will get an excellent alarm-clock!

 8. Pre-listen mode. Using it, you can get acquainted with large amounts of music in no time. In this mode WinAmp plays a song for the specified number of seconds and then skips a part of it.

 9. Logarithmic master volume scale. When the volume is low, it changes at a low rate (e.g. 2-3% at a time), but when the volume is high, the changing rate is also high (20-25%).

10. Statistics and highlighting the most popular artists. The plug-in reads the information from the tags ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, OGG, WMA and CDA. You will know for sure what artist you like best, what songs are played most often, and what genres you prefer. You can also export this information into a text (TXT) or a hypertext (HTML) file and send it to your friends or publish it at your site.

11. Searching for the song by its name and the 'Jump To File' feature regardless of the keyboard layout. Even if you type "" in the search field, the plug-in will easily find Queen.

12. And more, MORE, MUCH MORE FEATURES!


What is new in the version 3.0?
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* The help system
* The mouse wheel, when used for scrolling, is active in the window where the mouse cursor is at the moment.
* In the statistics the songs that were played the equal number of times are sorted by the path to the files
* You can cancel adding files with the 'Cancel' button
* The statistics can be partially deleted
* Processing statistics is now performed simultaneously with the file search
* You can set the interval for which the statistics will be displayed
* The buttons 'Add a random album' and 'Add a random song' were added
* The 'Jump to file' and search features are regardless of the keyboard layout
* Now you can select the field to search in
* Exporting the statistics to html/txt
* Displaying the list of the most popular genres
* On/Off is now displayed as text, not as 1/0
* Various opacity levels for the Traylist, OSD tips and all Winamp windows (only in Windows 2000 and XP)
* The support of the WMA, OGG and CDA formats
* The design of the settings window is considerably improved.
* The minor bug with the statistics gathering starting date is fixed.
* Now you can specify the path to the file np.txt
* The animation when a window is opened/closed and tabs are switched
* Gradually appearing/disappearing OSD tips (only Windows 2000 and XP)
* Formatting the string for the file NP.txt as well as for OSD tips
* The fully customizable appearance of OSD tips
* Swithing OSD tips off, if Winamp is active
* Turning the screensaver off, if Winamp is active
* The 'Set to default' button for the list of hot keys
* Four new hot keys:
    Close Winamp, 
    Show the full information about the file (Alt+3 in Winamp)
    Physically remove the current song
    Mute
* Saving the playlist and the Traylist parameters automatically
* The HotHits feature -- you can assign playlists and audiofiles to the keybord shortcuts Win+0..Win+9
* You can set recoding tables for the file np.txt to recode it to the koi8-r, dos, iso8859-5 codepages


Installation guide
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1. If Winamp is running, close it.

1. Unpack the archive and launch tl3.exe.

2. Follow the instructions on the screen. To install the plug-in you should indicate the path to the plug-in folder in that folder where WinAmp is installed.

3. Launch WinAmp.

4. Go to Options -> Preferences (or press Ctrl+P).

5. Find in plug-ins -> Other (External modules -> Other) the TrayList plug-in, select it and press the Configure button

   (instead of steps 4-5 you can just right-click the plug-in icon in the tray)

6. Press the 'Add a folder' button and specify at least one folder where you have audiofiles. If you do not do that, the plug-in will search the entire disk for files, which ususally takes quite a long time.

User's guide
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1. If the installation was correct, there should appear one more icon in the tray.

2. Left-click it to see the list of audiofiles, or right-click it to configure.

3. If step 6 of the installation guide was performed correctly, you will see a window corresponding to the content of the specified folders on your screen.

4. How to use the plug-in:

   * right-clicking the name of a song or an album adds it to the WinAmp playlist

   * the 'Start!' button begins playing the first added song and closes the plug-in window

   * the 'Add the album' button adds all files from the list

   * the 'Add all the albums' adds all files and albums from the list

   * pressing the 'Close' button closes the plug-in window

   * The Del button clears the playlist

Uninstallation
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  To remove the plug-in from your hard disk, use the program 'Add/Remove programs' in the Windows Control Panel.

New versions and suggestions
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Stay informed about the new versions of the plug-in at our site http://www.intellized.com
Suggestions, comments and thanks are welcome at info@intellized.com
