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64 Kilobyte Limit on Track Information in CDPLAYER.INI

You can record volume and track data and CDPlayer stores this information in its CDPLAYER.INI file. However, like all INI files, CDPLAYER.INI has a 64 kilobytes limit. Normally, this is not a limitation for INI files, since few programs need 64 kilobytes of application settings and switches. It can however become a problem when the INI file is used as a poor man's database and this is exactly what CDPlayer does. CDPlayer stores several hunderd bytes of information about each CD, where the exact length depends on the length of the track names used. There is no workaround for this limitation. If you have an extensive CD collection CDPlayer almost surely will run out of space in its INI file. Microsoft Access has a sample database for audio CD's without size restrictions, but of course it cannot play the CD in the CDROM drive.


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