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Qoobar v1.6.7    README 02.08.2015

Din't test much those progs.

CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
========================

1. INTRODUCTION

2. REQUIREMENTS

3. INSTALLATION

4. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER

5. CONTACT

6. CREDITS

7. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS

8. HISTORY

9. RESTRICTIONS


1. INTRODUCTION
===============

Welcome to Qoobar v1.6.7 port for OS/2 and eComStation.

Qoobar is an Audio Tagger for Classical Music. 
- Edit ID3v2.4, APE, ASF, MP4 tags, Vorbis comments
- Edit tags in MP3 (*.mp3), Ogg/Vorbis (*.ogg), Ogg/FLAC (*.oga),
  FLAC (*.flac), Musepack (*.mpc), Speex (*.spx), TrueAudio (*.tta),
  WavPack (*.wv), Wma/Asf (*.wma), APE (*.ape) and MP4 (*.m4a, *.mp4) files.
- Batch tagging - edit any tags in group of files, giving the same value
  or individual values.
- Easy copy&paste any tags between groups of files.
- Edit the following tags: Composer, Album, Title, Performer, Artist,
  Conductor, Orchestra, Subtitle, Key, Comment, Genre, Year, Track Number,
  Total Tracks, Album artist, Publisher, Mood, Beats per minute (Tempo),
  Original artist, Original lyricist, Lyricist, Original album, Lyrics,
  Music category (Grouping), Copyright, Disc number, Total discs, Remixed by,
  Encoded by, ISRC, URL, Rating.
- Edit all other tags written in your music files.
- Add your own tags and save them.
- Generate tags from filenames and filepaths.
- Import tags from Discogs, Musicbraiz and freedb.
- Rename / copy / move files by their tags, creating folders if necessary.
- Convert tags with Windows 1251, KOI8-R, CP866 encodings into UTF8.
- Edit cover art pictures in all supported file types.
- Undo any tag change.

2. REQUIREMENTS
===============
The following requirements can be installed either by rpm or by zip files  
except Extended System Tray widget which is currently available as zip only.
  

RPM Installation (preferred):
============================
klibc
-----
    1. yum install libc
  
GCC4Core
--------
    1. yum install libgcc1
    2. yum install libssp
    3. yum install libstdc++6 libstdc++
    4. yum install libsupc++6 libsupc++
    5. yum install libgcc-fwd
  
Qt4 dll
-------
    1. yum install libqt4

Zlib  
----
    1. yum install zlib

ZIP Installation:
================

klibc    
-----
    1. Download klibc 0.6.6 or better (see http://svn.netlabs.org/libc for 
        more information)
    2. Install the files to your libpath eg x:\ecs\dll
  
GCC4Core   
--------
    1. Download GCC4Core 1.2.2 or better from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc
    2. Install the files to your libpath eg. x:\ecs\dll
  
Qtcore4   
-------
    1. Download Qt4 4.7.3 or better (see http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4 for more 
      information). 'Qt Runtime Libraries and Plugins' is sufficient.
    2. Install the files according to the readme
  
Zlib   
----
    1. Download zlib from f.i. http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/
    2. Unpack and install z.dll to your libpath eg. x:\ecs\dll

Extended System Tray
--------------------
    1. ExtendedSysTray widget for xCenter/eCenter. Not strictly required 
       but strongly recommended. Get it from here if you do not have it 
       installed already - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/xsystray/

Cups
----
    1. Download the latest cups version which is 1.4.8 or better
    2. Install it and be sure to put the cups.dll somewhere to your path 
    3. This is needed for printing, if it's not then it's not needed to install.

3. INSTALLATION
===============

Qoobar
--------

  1. Create a directory for Qoobar.
  2. Extract the Qoobar package to the new directory.
  3. Create a WPS object for Qoobar.exe
  4. Start Qoobar
  5. Enjoy the app
  

4. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
=================================

Copyright: 2009-2015 Alex Novichkov <novichkov.qoobar@gmail.com> http://qoobar.sourceforge.net


This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


5. CONTACT
==========


if you find a bug, then add a ticket to the trac at http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps

Only bug reports with a reproducable bug are accepted. :-)



6. CREDITS
==========

The port was done by:

Elbert Pol aka TeLLie

Thanks go to:

  * Alex Novichkov 
  * Dmitry A. Kuminov
  * Silvan Scherrer


They either helped me when I had some nasty questions or did some testing for me.


7. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
========================

Qoobar is based on volunteer work. If you would like to support further
development, you can do so in one of the following ways:


  * Donate to the Qt4 project: see qt.netlabs.org for more information

  * Contribute to the project: Besides actual development, this also includes
    maintaining the documentation and the project web site as well as help
    for users.


8. HISTORY
==========
Compiled now with Qt v4.7.3 GA

v.1.6.7 - 29 Aug 2015

    Fixed: Bug with the deleting of the replaygain info
    Fixed: Discogs authentication
    Fixed: Reading of tags that contain ;
    Added: Sorting in the Files table
    Added: The possibility to edit tags in the files table
    Changed: The toolbar icons
    Changed: The Settings dialog interface
