MCS MusicRack ReadMe File =============================================================================== LINECONFIG: Additional information for users who have attached the output of their CD-ROM drive to the Auxiliary port of their sound card. If your sound board has a CD audio line-in port, yet you have found it necessary to attach the audio output of the CD-ROM drive to the auxiliary line-in port, you will find it impossible to control the CD Volume in the Enhanced CD player. This section will detail how to make MCS MusicRack best utilize your sound board's auxliliary line-in to control the volume of your CD player. The "Volume" section of the MCS MusicRack User's Manual describes a procedure which assigns the auxiliary port of the sound card to MCS MusicRack's logical CD volume control. After this operation the CD Player's volume controls will adjust the volume of the sound card's auxiliary port. Because the Mixing Console component relies, not on MCS MusicRack's logical associations, but instead on the patch names as reported by the sound card's mixer driver, you must still adjust the "Aux" sliders to change the CD's volume when using the Mixing Console component. Alternatively, you may also change the default patch names that the mixer driver will use to correspond to the changes made in the MCSINIT.INI file. We think that this is a very reasonable solution that most users would prefer. The following instructions are meant for those who have the problem described above. Step 1. Install MCS MusicRack if has not been previously installed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 2. Switch MCS MusicRack's logical auxiliary and CD associations --------------------------------------------------------------------- a) Use Windows' notepad (or any other editor which will write straight ASCII files) and load "MCSINIT.INI" from the directory containing Windows. b) Locate the [LINECONFIG] section and examine the entries labled "CD_AUDIO" and "AUXILIARY", then swap the line numbers associated with both devices. Example: If your sound board is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum, then you would make AUXILIARY=LINEIN03 and CD_AUDIO=LINEIN02 as demonstrated below. [LINECONFIG] PRODUCT=Media Vision Pro Audio/CDPC MASTER=LINEOUT00 RECORDIN=LINEOUT01 CD_AUDIO=LINEIN03 <---------- CD_AUDIO=LINEIN02 DIGITAL_RECORDER=LINEIN05 | MIDI=LINEIN00 | AUXILIARY=LINEIN02 <---------- AUXILIARY=LINEIN03 MICROPHONE=LINEIN04 Step 3. Changing the default mixer driver patch names. ------------------------------------------------------- a) Search for the [drivers] section in the file "SYSTEM.INI" located in the directory where Windows has been installed. Locate the "mixer" entry in the [drivers] section and note the filename that has been assigned to the "mixer" entry. b) Use an editor capable of writing straight ASCII to edit "WIN.INI" located in the directory where Windows was installed. Find the section name corresponding to the filename found in step 3a. c) After finding the appropriate section name, search the section's "LineIn" entries for the patch names of "AUX" and "CD". (The patch names appear in the first field immediately after the '=' on each line.) Next, swap the numbers associated with these patches. Example: If your sound board is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum, then you would replace the '3' in the line that contains "LineIn3=AUX" to '4' and you would replace the '4' in the line that contains "LineIn4=CD" to '3' as show below. ------------------ Change this '3' to '4' | [mvmixer.drv] | LineIn1=SYNTH | MUS] PLAY L= 0% R= 0% @=0000 LineIn2=MIXER | MIX] PLAY L= 91% R= 91% @=0000 LineIn3=AUX <--- AUX| PLAY L= 77% R= 77% @=0000 LineIn4=CD <--- CDA| PLAY L= 46% R= 46% @=0000 LineIn5=MIC | MIC| PLAY L= 60% R= 60% @=0000 LineIn6=WAVE | WAV] PLAY L= 0% R= 0% @=0000 LineIn7=SPKR | SPK] RECORD L= 13% R= 23% @=0000 LineOut1=MASTER \ AMP| PLAY L= 56% R= 56% @=0000 StereoEnhance=ON \ Loudness=OFF \ Bass= 66 \---------------- Change this '4' to '3' Treble= 75 SaveSettingsOnWindowsExit=YES --------------------------------------------------------------------------------