In the Sounds & Music tab you can control how gPhotoShow plays music and sounds.
Recursive search
If selected gPhotoShow recursively finds all sound files in the sub-folders of the specified folders
Folders:
Here are listed the folders where gPhotoShow looks for sound and music files. On the left of every folder there is a checkbox, when the checkbox is checked gPhotoShow will use that folder, when the checkbox is empty gPhotoShow will ignore that folder. If you wish to manually edit a folder name click only once on the folder name. If you wish to edit the folder name by using the Browse dialog double click on the folder name.
Count Files
When you click on this button gPhotoShow count the files in the configured folders
Add Directory
Click on this button to add a new folder to the folders list
Add SubDir
Click on this button to add all the subfolders of a selected folder
Remove Selected
Click on this button to remove the selected folders from the folders list. Before using this button you must select some folders on the list. To select more than one folder click on the list while keeping pressed the Ctrl or Shift keys
Select All
Click on this button to select all the folders in the list
Deselect All
Click on this button to remove the selection from all the folders in the list
Enable All
Click on this button to enable all the folders in the list. This command will check all the checkboxes near the folder names.
File Types & ID3...
By Clicking on this button gPhotoShow will open a window to enable/disable files types for sound/music files, in the same windows you can choose which ID3 tags to display.
Show file info
If selected gPhotoShow shows the file name of the current sound. In addition you can choose how the file is shown:
File Name Only: Displays only the file name without path
Full Path: Displays the file name complete with path and extension
Folder + File Name: Displays the file name and the folder that contains it. For example if full path name is "c:\my sounds\disk1\song1.mp3" with this option "disk1 - song1" will be displayed.
Folder Name Only: Displays only the folder name
ID3 Info: Displays ID3 information contained in the music files. ID3 info can be read only from MP3 and WMA files. This setting works only when gPhotoShow runs on Windows XP
Choose sound files randomly
If selected gPhotoShow plays sound files randomly, if not selected sound files are played sequentially, in alphabetical order
Restart play from last file played
If selected gPhotoShow saves the index of the last file played, in this way when it restarts it begins from the next file instead of to start playing from the beginning
Sound/Music initially paused
If enabled, when the slide show starts, sounds and music are disabled, they can be enabled with a configured key or by an appropriate image property
Pause Sounds while playing video
If enabled gPhotoShow will stop sounds and music playing while video and animations are being played
Stop Sounds when monitor Off
If enable sounds and music are stopped when Monitor is switched off
Play sound and music files using
Select here the device to use to play sound and music files. Available choices are:
Media Player : gPhotoShow uses the Microsoft Media Player ActiveX. This is usually the best choice, but on some systems where Media Player ActiveX is not installed correctly or the system registry is damaged you can experience errors and program crashes.
Windows MCI: gPhotoShow uses the windows Media Control Interface, a standard method to play multimedia files. This method work rather well but some mpeg players makes damages to the MCI settings in registry and when this happens MCI is not able to play MP3 anymore.
WinAmp: if installed, gPhotoShow uses WinAmp. If you are using WinAmp 3 you need to download and install the plugin "Winamp 2x Plugin Manager", This PlugIn can be found on the WinAmp web site (http://www.winamp.com). gPhotoShow has been tested with WinAmp 2.91 and and WinAmp 3.0. Because WinAmp is a third party software there is no guarantee that gPhotoShow will continue to work with future releases of WinAmp.
iTunes: if installed, gPhotoShow uses Apple iTunes
If the option you selected is not available gPhotoShow will automatically use another option. To check errors you must enable error logging and see the log file.
Attention:
Some music files can contain internet links that will cause Microsoft Media Player (and gPhotoShow) to access to internet. This is not a gPhotoShow failure or security hole but it is only due to the files it is playing. The files are played by Media Player not by gPhotoShow directly so gPhotoShow hasn't any control on what is happening. If you don't wish to have internet connections during the screen saver carefully check all the audio files played by gPhotoShow.
