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9. Final notes

9.1 Some tips and tricks

I will include some tips so that you can take fully advantage from all the features of KMid :

• Opening files
  I always keep a KDE desktop with a KFM window in my root midi directory, and KMid in this desktop (if playing a midi file) or sticky (if playing a karaoke file :-)). This way, when the active collection finishes, or I want to play some file, I just go to the KFM window, select the desired files and make Drag&Drop to the KMid's window.

  Suppose that you want to play some midi files, but don't want to add them to any collection, well, just turn off the AutoAdd to Collection option in the Collections menu, and open the files, they will be added to the Temporary Collection .

• Another method to create a new Collection
  Suppose that you have midi files A.mid , B.mid and C.mid . At first you only want to play the first midi file, so you unselect AutoAdd and open A.mid . You get then a Temporary Collection with only one midi file .

  Then you decide to play also B and C, and make a collection with all them, what do you do ?

  Easy, select AutoAdd and open B.mid and C.mid (by any of the multiple methods), they will be automatically added to the Temporary Collection, that will then have A.mid, B.mid and C.mid . At this point, you can open the Organize Collections dialog, select the Temporary Collection, and click on the Copy button, enter the name of the new collection, and you are done . You already have a new collection, which holds the A,B and C midi files, and that is not deleted when you close KMid.

9.2 Hall of KMid's friends

These are some folks who have sent me midi files or a postcard, thanks to everyone ! Hearing those songs and watching those postcards will keep me programming more and more on kmid.

• Ola Sigurdson - Taking Care of Business (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
• EG Lim - A really very nice postcard from Penang.
• Guenther Starnberger - Amadeus (Falco) and Schrei Nach Liebe (Die Aerzte)
• Leandro Terrés - All That She Wants and The Sign (Ace of Base)
• Nick Stoic - Two midi files

9.3 About the author

KMid has been made by Antonio Larrosa Jiménez, in Málaga (Spain) . I am a student of Mathematics at the University of Málaga, currently I'm doing the third course, so I don't have much free time for my hobbies, but I always try to get some :-) . My hobbies include : Programming, collecting midi files, playing music and proving theorems ;-) .

If you want to know where to download midi/karaoke files, you have any question, a bug to report, an idea or a feature you'd like to see in KMid or just want to make me happy, feel free to send me an email to : larrosa@kde.org or antlarr@arrakis.es

or write to me by snail-mail at :

 Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
 Rio Arnoya 10 5B
 Malaga (Spain)

You will really make me happy if you send me a postcard from where you live, or a midi/karaoke file from a local music group of your country . Everyone who sends me a postcard or a midi file will have his/her name in the Hall of KMid's friends of this file (provided they don't oppose to this) . Please contact me before sending me any midi files because I may have it already .

I'd like to stress that KMid has been done completely on free time, without any monetary support from any company nor particular. So plese keep in mind when you use it, that the only think that keep me working on this is getting some feedback from its users (a postcard, or just an email).

I would like to thanks the following persons their help in developing KMid:

• Paul J. Leonard - Support for AWE cards
• Sebestyen Zoltan - FreeBSD port and AWE testing
• Christian Esken - For organizing the KDE multimedia efforts
• Stephan Kulow - Configure scripts and help with automake and CVS
• Jaroslav Kysela - Help in doing the Linux Ultrasound Project driver support
• Adrian Knoth - For giving me good news and many suggestions
• Kevin Street - Patch to support FreeBSD 3.0
• Thanks go also to Jose Luis Sanchez for his testing of GUS support, Ignacio Garcia for testing the AWE support, Hans Petter Bieker, Ola Sigurdson, Marc Diefenbruch, Peter Gritsch, Magnus Pfeffer, Urko Lusa, Peter-Paul Witta, Thorsten Westheider, Ulrich Cordes and everyone that sent me a patch, bug report or just an email to give me encouragement.
• And of course to all the fabulous musicians over the net that keep giving us those wonderful midi and karaoke files.

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