1. IMPORTANT NOTES

1.1 Change of name (!)

1.2 Fixed errors / New features in this release

2. New Features in Hitbase 98

3. Technical Support and suggestions

1. IMPORTANT NOTES

Welcome to Hitbase 98.

Hitbase 98 is SHAREWARE. If you wish to continue using Hitbase 98 after the 30-day test-period, you must obtain a full version from Big 3 Software. Further details about pricing and ordering can be found under Help->How to order.

1.1 Change of name

We have had to change the name of our CD-player to "Hitbase" for legal / copyright reasons. The functionality of the programm is unaffected by the change.

1.2 Fixed errors / new features in this release

Version 7.09.46:

The newly opened CD-Archive located at www.cdarchiv.de is now supported from Hitbase. Please change the settings for the Hitbase (Internet) CD-Archive in "Options->CD-Archive" from www.big3.de to www.cdarchiv.de
The archive located at www.big3.de isn't supported anymore and will be deactivated soon.
The length of a song wasn't written to the database when importing from cdplayer.ini even if you insert the CD in the drive. We fixed that now.
If you double-clicked on a CD in "Edit->Catalog" it leads to a system crash. This should be fixed now.
In the dialog "Options->Plug-Ins" the list of modules wasn't reset when choosing a new library.
Now you can interupt Plug-Ins which outperform your system with the ESC-Key (e.g. "Blurry Twirl").
Added a new ACD.OCX which fixes some minor issues and adds new features. E.g.
1. The mysterious error 175 should be fixed (hopefully).
2. Sector synchronization mode enhanced.
3. New wave output routines.
Fixed some minor bugs in CD-cover printing.

Version 7.06.42:

Now supports Direct-Draw plug-ins (fullscreen mode only)
Wave-files now will be played when clicking on a song title in the catalogue.
If Hitbase is minimized in the tray icon now the options beeing choosen from the options menu will be displayed correct.
When recording a track the resulting files now include the artist: eg. "Spice girls - Viva forever.wav" instead of "Viva forever.wav"
Now fully supports CD-Extra (there were errors whith some CD-Extras in the past)

Version 7.05.41:

Recording of a predefined A-B sequence caused Hitbase to crash - that won't happen anymore now.
Now it's possible to export the "Medium"-field (within Text-Export)

Version 7.04.40:

There are new MFC-DLLs included in the package - the old ones lead to incompatibilities with other programs.
There was a problem in the cover-print menu: On some printers the text was printed out in the wrong direction. That is solved now.
While numbering filenames to be written to disk we forgot to add leading zeros in it. Now they will be sorted in Explorer correctly. For examle the first file of a recording now is saved as song01.wav and no longer as song1.wav
Now the progress bar and the percentage-value are shown correct while showing compressed recordings.

2. New Features in Hitbase 98

The new version of Hitbase contains many new features and improvements. Many thanks to all the users who passed on tips and suggestions to enable us to make Hitbase even better. We have tried to include as many wishes as possible. The biggest changes affect the database.

Audio-Tracks can be read directly from the CD (bypassing the sound-card). To do this you will need a CD-ROM drive supported by Hitbase (see list).
Support for the Windows Audio Compression Manager (ACM) to compress recorded audio-tracks (e.g. MP3).
User-defined printing of CD-Covers. Almost every aspect of the layout can be defined.
Artists and CD-Sets can be managed separately. You can for example add new artists or edit an existing one.
The CD-archive support has been significantly enhanced, especially for the Internet. You can choose between three different archive types. New in this version is the support for the CDDB-archive which currently contains over 200,000 CD's (as of 06/98).
The Loan-Manager also allows you to manage CD's that you have loaned out.
Further import-interfaces for Microsoft DeluxeCD (from Windows 98 Plus! or Windows 2000).
New, more modern CD-player user-interface.
Hitbase 98 now supports plug-ins for its signal-processor. This means that you can develop your own extensions for Hitbase which display the CD-signal or the frequency-spectrum in a special form. We will provide a forum on our Homepage for developers with documentation and examples.
and much, much more...

3. Technical Support and Suggestions

If you have questions, comments or suggestions please write to us. The quickest (and recommended) way is via E-Mail. You can reach us on the Internet at the following addresses:

Internet-Mail: info@hitbase.de
WWW: http://www.hitbase.de

If you have specific questions check first in the Hitbase 98 FAQ (frequently asked questions). Here you will find answers to the most common questions. The questions and answers can be found in the file "hit98faq.txt".

Check our Homepage regularly for updates to Hitbase 98, where perhaps the known errors are already corrected. Many thanks!

Have fun with Hitbase 98!

The Big 3 Software Team
(Jürgen Schmitz, Dieter Schmitz, Günter Schmitz)