Version 0.4:
Kscd now features a new installation script. Support for Irix and Sun/Solaris cdda was added.
Version 0.3:
The most notable technical change is that kscd is no longer based on workbone. I have given it a new engine taken from the workman a well known cd player for various Unix platforms written by Stephen Grimm.
Due to the workman engine, Kscd 0.3 in contrast to Kscd 0.2 should compile and work properly on a variety of different Unix platforms. Unfortunately this has also complicated the compilation and installation procedure a bit.
Having introduced a number of changes to the workman sources, Kscd is now on for the most common platform, a Linux IDE cdrom, a faster, more responsive player than any other player I know of under Unix and Windows 95. Incidentally, Kscd is also the first player under Unix which doesn't hang my personal cdrom drive on exit.
While kscd does not yet offer all the bells and whistles that a cd player such as xmcd offers it is at about 80000 bytes definitely a lean mean cd-machine. Compare this to the 1 meg statically linked slow motif dog xmcd.
Nevertheless, while xmcd is big and slow, it has invented the cddb database format and the cddb internet CD databases. Internet cddb is in my opinion a fantastic concept and I am currently working on implementing cddb support for kscd. Watch out for the next release.
BTW: Kscd stands for "The KDE Project's small/simply CD player".
I hope you will enjoy this cd-player,
Bernd Johannes Wuebben