User Guide

Disc Library Version 2.5

October 2005

Copyright 2005 William C. McCain
User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5

Main Panel

The Main panel has all the usual buttons for controlling a CD changer: Stop, Pause, Play, etc. In addition, the Mode button on the Main panel brings up the Set Special Play Mode dialog.

Shuffle and Repeat Modes

The Set Special Play Mode dialog allows you to choose Normal play mode or one of two Repeat modes or one of three Shuffle modes: Normal Repeat Track Repeat Disc Shuffle Tracks on Current Disc Shuffle Tracks in Disc Library Shuffle Discs in Disc Library 1
User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 Note that when a Play List is running, the Repeat Track mode affects only track steps in the Play List and the Repeat Disc mode affects only disc steps in the Play list. All three Shuffle modes work the same when a Play List is running: they cause the steps in the Play List to be executed randomly.
When a Play List is not active, the three Shuffle modes operate as their names indicate. The last two Shuffle modes operate on a subset of your CD collection, as specified by selecting any combination of the 15 music categories shown on the lefthand side of the dialog. If all 15 categories are checked, the last two Shuffle modes operate on your entire CD collection loaded into the Disc Library. If you have more than one CD changer, the last two Shuffle Modes automatically alternate selections on different changers, if possible (this could depend on the categories that you have chosen). Alternation of CD changers permits the next selection to be pre-cued, so that it will play without delay when the current selection ends. During all three Shuffle Modes, the Disc+ button can be used to advance to the next selection in the shuffle set. The Disc- button takes you back to the previous shuffle selection, but the Disc- button will not take you back farther than the start of the most recent reshuffle. A reshuffle occurs automatically when the end of the current shuffle sequence is reached. A reshuffle can also be forced, by clicking the Stop button and then clicking the Disc+ button, or by manually selecting a different track or disc while in one of the Shuffle modes. If you are playing a disc when you turn on one of the last two Shuffle modes, the current track or current disc (depending on whether you selected Shuffle Tracks or Shuffle Discs) will be included in the shuffle set even if it does not belong to one
User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 of the categories you have checked. The playing of the current track or disc is not interrupted, and when it finishes playing, Disc Library will automatically advance to a track or disc from the selected categories. But when the end of the shuffle sequence is reached, the track or disc that was playing at the time you entered the Shuffle mode will be included in the reshuffle. The same is true if you have clicked Stop and then click Play: the currently displayed disc will play, and it (or its first track) will be included in the shuffle set, regardless of category. To avoid this effect, simply enter the Shuffle mode while playing is stopped (or click Stop) and then click the Disc+ button (not the Pause or Play buttons) to start Shuffle play.
Monitoring and Controlling a Play List
When a Play List is active, its name appears on the Main panel in large blue letters (just above the box that shows the current player number, disc number, number of tracks, etc.). If you click on the Play List name in the Main panel, the Monitor & Control Play List dialog pops up. It looks like this:

Editing Play Lists

Steps (entries) are added to Play Lists by opening an Edit Play List window and using either drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste operations. The source for these operations can be: The list of tracks in the Track panel (which shows the currently-playing CD). The lists of discs in the Title, Performer, Composer, and Disc panels. Any open Browse Tracks window. Any open Edit Play List window.
The Edit Play List windows support both the drag-and-drop and cut/copy-andpaste methods for rearranging steps within a Play List. The Edit Play List windows have on-screen buttons for all the customary cut-and-paste editing operations: Delete, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All. As alternatives to the on-screen buttons, the Edit Play List windows support the usual keys for editing operations: the Delete key for Delete; and Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and Ctrl-A for Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All, respectively. The Play List can be scrolled by clicking the mouse on the scrollbar, by using the scroll wheel on a mouse, or by the Page Up/Page Down keys. A step can be selected by clicking it with the mouse or by using the up/down arrow keys on the keyboard to move the highlighted selection. A contiguous sequence of multiple steps can be 7
User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 selected by first selecting one end of the sequence and then holding down the Shift key on your keyboard while using the mouse to click on the other end of the sequence. Drag-and-drop operations, on the other hand, are performed entirely by means of the mouse.
To do a drag-and-drop, you must first select a step or a sequence of steps. (To select a sequence of steps, hold the Shift key down when you click the mouse on the other end of the sequence.) Then you must release the mouse button and click it again on the steps when you start to drag them to their new location. You cannot select-and-drag with a single mouse click. This may or may not be what you are used to, but it is the way that drag-and-drop works in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). When using drag-and-drop between Edit Play List windows, or within the same Play List, the default operation is a move. To copy steps instead, hold down the Ctrl key while doing the drag-and-drop. (When adding steps to a Play List from a Browse Tracks window or any of the list panels, drag-and-drop always functions as a copy operation, so the use of the Ctrl key is not relevant in those cases.)

User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 There are two types of steps in Disc Library Play Lists: track steps and disc steps. A track step plays a single track from a CD, and a disc step plays an entire CD. The Edit Play List windows provide two convenient buttons for converting steps from disc steps into track steps and vice versa. The Expand button replaces a disc step with a sequence of track steps, consisting of all the tracks on the disc. The Contract button does the opposite: it replaces a track step with a disc step, and deletes all other track steps in the Play List that come from that disc (if any). The Expand button can also be applied to a track step, in which case it performs a combined Contract/Expand operation. The net effect is that the track step is replaced by a sequence of track steps, consisting of all the tracks on the same disc, and any other track steps from that disc are deleted. This gathers all the track steps from the same disc into a single, complete sequence within the Play List. Then you can delete the tracks that you dont want, rearrange the others, and so on. Note that the Expand function greatly simplifies the process of creating a Play List. If you have in mind including several favorite tracks from a given CD, it suffices to drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste a disc step from one of the list panels into the Play List (or a representative track from the Track panel or a Browse Tracks window). In the Edit Play List window, use the Expand button to get the complete list of tracks from that disc; then you can delete the unwanted tracks and you are done! The Shuffle button rearranges the steps of the Play List in a random order, without introducing any repeats, much like shuffling a deck of cards. The Alternate button rearranges the steps of the Play List to ensure that consecutive steps are on different CD changers (to the maximum extent possible). Alternation of CD changers permits the next step to be pre-cued, so that it will play without delay when the current step ends.
Title/Performer/Composer Panels
The Title, Performer, and Composer panels are similar to each other in appearance and function. Each of them presents an alphabetical listing of the CDs in your Disc Library. They differ, of course, in that they each use different information as the basis for their alphabetical indexing.
In general, every CD in your changers that has an entry in your local Disc Library database will appear in the Title and Performer panels. The Internet database does not have a separate field for composer information, but for CDs in certain music categories (e.g., Classical), the composer name is often found embedded in the title or artist data. Disc Library attempts to extract this composer information when downloading the Internet database entries. In any case, you have the opportunity to enter composer data yourself when editing your local database entries (see the section entitled Editing Database Entries). Note that the term artist is somewhat ambiguous both performers and composers are artists, and both are sometimes found in the artist field in the Internet database. For that reason, we have separated this information into three distinct fields in Disc Librarys local database entries. The Artist field is initially the 10

Editing Database Entries

The Disc and Setup panels each have an Edit Info button that brings up a dialog in which you can edit all of the information in a Disc Library local database entry for a selected disc. In the case of the Disc panel, this button operates on the currently selected disc in the Disc panel listing; in general, this disc need not be playing or loaded into playing position. But in the case of the Setup panel, the Edit Info button operates on the disc that is currently loaded into playing position in the currently active CD changer; this disc may be stopped, paused, or playing. Many CDs have more than one entry in the Internet database. When you use the Database Operations or Look Up Current Disc functions to identify your CDs, all of the available entries are downloaded. Also, you can add a number of user entries of your own to your local Disc Library database. In fact, whenever you edit an entry from the Internet database, a new user entry is created when you save your changes, as the downloaded Internet database entries are never actually modified. If your local database contains more than one entry for the selected disc, the Edit Info button does not bring up the Database Entry Editor directly. Instead, you are first presented with a dialog in which you are asked to choose the entry you want to edit (and to be associated with the CD). That dialog looks like this:
Note that when the Internet database has multiple entries for a given disc (as in the example above), they will each be assigned to a different music category (and some of those categories may not be appropriate for the disc in question). That is because the Internet database supports at most one disc per category with a given internal identification code. On rare occasions, two entirely different CDs will have the same internal identification code, so it is possible that you may see multiple entries that do not all refer to the same disc. 18
User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 The Disc Library local database is somewhat more robust than the Internet database. In your local database, you can edit and save a large number of user entries that refer to the same disc and have the same music category. Furthermore, the Internet database has only 11 music categories, but the Disc Library local database has 15 (we have added the Pop, Musical Show, Opera, and Unknown categories). If there is only one local database entry for the selected disc, or if you have clicked Select & Edit on the Select Database Entry dialog, you will see the Edit Database Entry dialog. The following is a typical example:
If you have more than one copy of the same CD (loaded into different slots in the same or different CD changers), they will share the same set of entries in your local database, because they have the same internal identification code. However, you are free to assign the duplicate copies to the same or different entries within the set of entries that they share. If two copies of the same disc are assigned to the same database entry, then editing that entry for one copy will also affect the data that is displayed for the other copy. Occasionally (but rarely), a CD is not found in the Internet database. In that case, Disc Library creates a blank local database entry for you to edit. In a blank entry, the music category will be set to Unknown and all the text fields will be empty. The number of tracks and the total playing time will be accurate, however. Note that

User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 you cannot edit a database entry for a new CD until you have at least tried to identify it in the Internet database. That is because Disc Library needs to read the discs Table of Contents in order to both search for it in the Internet database, and to create a blank entry for you to edit if the search fails. When you load a new CD by slot number, just before using the Look Up Current Disc button to identify the new disc, Disc Library displays a New Title generic CD cover. This is a temporary cover image; New Title is not one of Disc Librarys music categories, and no such entry is ever created in the local database. After you run the Look Up, the New Title cover will be replaced by a generic CD cover that corresponds to the discs music category in the Internet database (or by the Unknown category cover if the CD is not found in the Internet database).

Uploading Disc Memos

Many (but not all) Sony CD changer models support disc memo upload, which permits Disc Library to upload either 13 or 20 characters of text information for a disc slot. These disc memos are shown in the changers display panel. (Certain older Sony models support disc memos but not upload that is, the text can be entered from the changers front panel and remote, but not from Disc Library.) The Disc and Setup panels each have an Upload Memo button that brings up a dialog in which you can enter and upload a customized disc memo for a selected disc. On the Disc panel, this button operates on the currently selected disc in the Disc panel listing (this disc need not be playing or loaded into playing position). But the Upload Memo button on the Setup panel operates on the disc that is currently loaded into playing position in the currently active CD changer. Consequently, if you have a number of discs for which you wish to upload custom disc memos, it is more convenient to use the Upload Memo button on the Disc panel (because you do not have to wait for the CD to be loaded by the changer). The Upload Disc Memo dialog allows you to enter a custom disc memo to be uploaded. To assist you in creating your custom memo, you can request a generated disc memo, generated from either album title or artist, and you can specify ways that these generated memos are to be shortened to make them fit better on a 13-character display panel. The generated memo will be shown in the text edit box so that you can edit it further, if desired, before uploading it to the CD changer. Similarly, you can retrieve the existing disc memo (if there is one) from the CD changer. Then you can edit the existing memo and re-upload it. Of course, you can also create your own custom memo from scratch. The following is a typical example of the Upload Disc Memo dialog:

Note that all Sony CD changers have a 13-character display panel, but some models will accept 20-character disc memos that can be scrolled within the 13-character display. The text edit box in the Upload Disc Memo dialog (and also in the Database Operations dialog) automatically adjusts to the length of text supported by the particular model. The example above shows a 20-character text box. The first 13 characters of the text box are within the Display Area and the last 7 characters stick out to the right. This is intended to indicate that the last 7 characters of the disc memo are not visible unless the memo is scrolled.

Selecting Cover Images

When a CD is newly identified from the Internet database, Disc Library assigns a generic CD album cover, based on its music category. If you have a scanner, you can easily scan the covers of your own CDs. Alternatively, files that contain the actual cover images of many CDs can readily be downloaded from many Web sites in a variety of resolutions. We provide a Cover Image Searcher utility program that displays your Disc Library CDs and semi-automatically searches and downloads cover images from two popular merchant store front Web sites. Furthermore, search engines such as Google and Yahoo have special image search options that can assist you in searching for image files. The Disc and Setup panels each have a Select Cover button that brings up a special-purpose file chooser dialog that lets you pick a cover image file for a selected disc. A typical cover image file chooser dialog is shown below.
The Disc and Setup panels also have a Use Generic button. This button removes a previously-established link between a disc and a cover image file (the cover image file itself is not deleted). When such a link is removed, a generic CD album cover, based on music category, will once again be displayed for the disc in question. Note that in the case of the Disc panel, the Select Cover and Use Generic buttons operate on the currently selected disc in the Disc panel listing; in general, this disc need not be playing or loaded into playing position. In the case of the Setup panel, these buttons operate on the disc that is currently loaded into playing position in the currently active CD changer; this disc may be stopped, paused, or playing. All cover image files associated with CDs in Disc Library must reside in the COVERS subdirectory of the Disc Library product folder. The supported graphics file types are JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG (most cover images files are JPEG files, which is the file type most commonly used for photos and scanned artwork). The Select Cover Image File dialog displays only files in the COVERS subdirectory, and only those files that match the supported graphics file types. (We have disabled the folder navigation buttons in the Select Cover Image File dialog.) Disc Library automatically scales the cover images to the sizes needed on each of its panels. The largest cover image size displayed by Disc Library is 240240 pixels. This is the optimum size for your scanned or downloaded cover image files, and we recommend that you use a tool (such as a photo editor) to rescale your image files to this size before you place them in the Disc Library COVERS subdirectory. If they are much smaller than 240240, they will look blurry when Disc Library displays them in its largest resolution. If they are much larger, they will have a negative impact on performance (especially when they are accessed over a network connection by the Remote version of Disc Library).

User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 Also, your cover images should be at least approximately square, as Disc Library will scale them to square sizes. If they are significantly non-square, they will look squeezed when scaled to fit a square. Most CD covers are roughly square. The covers of boxed sets can be an exception, and in those cases we recommend using a tool (such as a photo editor) to do one of the following: Crop them carefully to a square size (often you can trim away portions of a solid color background). Fill the square by adding a solid color border above and below the actual cover image.
Cover Image Searcher Utility
The Cover Image Searcher utility program displays your Disc Library CDs and semi-automatically searches and downloads cover images from two popular merchant store front Web sites. The following is a sample screen shot from the Cover Image Searcher utility:
User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 Unlike Disc Library, the Cover Image Searcher utility features a re-sizable window. This is especially handy if you download a long list of cover images. Do not run the Cover Image Searcher utility concurrently with Disc Library. It is possible to do so, but both programs use a considerable amount of memory for the database and cover images. Since they both read the database into memory at startup, they will not see any changes made by the other program. Even worse, they can overwrite database updates made by the other program! There is no standard Internet source for cover images that has a stable, published search protocol. Internet CD databases such as freedb.org provide text data only, they do not have cover image repositories, and nothing comparable to them exists for cover images. A number of amateur cover image sites exist, but they are generally here today gone tomorrow and heavily infected with adware. Cover image search and download from merchant store front Web sites is the best alternative, but it is very fragile. It will break anytime the store front Web sites make changes to the internal format of their queries, or the format of the Web pages they return, or their image file naming conventions. Consequently, we have included the Java source code for issuing the queries and analyzing the results. You may ask Why semi-automatic? Why not download and automatically assign all cover images that can be found? The answer is that, because the search relies on text fields (album title and performer name) it is not as reliable as looking up CDs in freedb.org (which uses a well-defined ID calculated from the CD's Table of Contents). Manual intervention is often necessary. You may not get a hit unless you delete extraneous material from the text strings (for example, Disc 1 or Disc 2 of 3 in the case of boxed sets). When you do get a hit sometimes you get multiple results, some of which are bogus, and you have to choose the right one.

User Guide Disc Library Version 2.5 attached to your computer. If the 300-disc model is Player 1 and the 400-disc model is Player 2, and then later you attach them differently so that the 400-disc model becomes Player 1 and the 300-disc model becomes Player 2, Disc Library will still be able to associate the correct slot files with each changer. On the other hand, suppose that you have two CD changers with the same model number, such as two Sony CDP-CX555ES 300-disc changers. They will be given slot files named CX555ES.001 and CX555ES.002 (numbered in the order in which multiple CD changers of the same model number are detected). In this case, it is imperative that you always attach these two changers to your computer in the same order (relative to each other). Otherwise, their slot files will become incorrectly swapped! However, even in this case you have some flexibility. Suppose that the two Sony CDP-CX555ES changers are originally detected as Player 1 and Player 2. Then later you add a third CD changer, with a different model number, in between the original two changers, so that the second Sony CDP-CX555ES becomes Player 3. In that case, the slot files will still be linked to the correct players. But if your new CD changer has the same model number as the first two, then you must attach it last, so that the new changer becomes Player 3. The internal format of Disc Library Play Lists is not as robust as the slot file naming scheme. If you rearrange your CD changers in such a manner that their player numbers change, it will break any existing Play Lists that refer to discs or tracks in those players!

Remote Operation

If your house has a high-speed local-area network (LAN), wired or wireless, you can install Disc Library on every computer in your home. The Disc Library setup program installs three versions of Disc Library on each computer (each of which has an individual application icon; under Microsoft Windows, some of these icons are installed on the Desktop, and a complete set can be found in the Start Menu). The version of Disc Library that runs on the computer to which your CD changers are attached is called the Master version. All of your other computers will run the Remote version. (The third version of Disc Library is the Demo version, which does not actually control any CD changers or play any music.) Before you can use the Remote version of Disc Library on other computers, you must configure the Master version to support remote operation. In the Master Configuration dialog, check the box labeled Enable Support for Remote Panels. Then the following additional configuration items will appear in the Master Configuration dialog:
In most cases, you will not need to change the default values of these items. The following explanations will help you understand these options, and whether or not you need to alter them:

IP Port Numbers

IP Address Low Bits Accepted
This option is a security measure, intended to prevent access to your Disc Library Master by computers outside your home. The default value is 2 bits, which allows access to the Disc Library Master by other computers whose IP Addresses are the same as the Masters IP address, except for the low-order 2 bits. That means a set of four IP addresses, near to and including the IP address of the master. If this option is changed to 3 bits, it will allow 8 adjacent IP addresses; 4 bits will allow 16 IP addresses; and so on. If you are using a typical Cable Modem Router or DSL Router that does address translation so that all the computers in your house share a single IP address for access to the Internet, then you can just set this option to a large value (such as 16 or even 32) and forget about the security issue. In that case your home LAN has a private address space and IP applications such as Disc Library that run on your computers are invisible to the outside world. This option is intended to handle the situation in which your house has its own block of static IP addresses that are externally visible.

HTTP Log Message Level

The HTTP Log Message Level option controls the minimum severity level of the informational, warning, and error messages that Disc Librarys HTTP server writes to a file named HTTP.LOG in the LOGFILES subdirectory of the Disc Library product folder. The supported values for this option are from 0 through 3, and they are defined as follows:

Level 2

Meaning Informational messages. One of these is generated for every file that is successfully retrieved from the HTTP server. Warning messages. A typical example is not found: filename. Ordinary error messages. These describe unusual, but non-fatal conditions involving the IP protocol or reading data files. A typical example is connection reset by peer. HTTP server initialization messages. Most of these are error messages for severe conditions that prevent the HTTP server from becoming operational. An example is no IP address could be found for this server. However, the informational message for successful initialization of the HTTP server is also set to severity level 3, to guarantee that it will always be written to the log file.
The default value for the HTTP Log Message Level option is 1. At this severity level, all messages except level 0 (informational) are written to the log. Note that the HTTP Log Message Level option cannot be set higher than 3, so the HTTP server initialization messages are always written to the log file. The Disc Library Remote(s) must be properly configured to communicate with the Master. The Remote version of Disc Library has its own Remote Configuration dialog, which has only four options: the IP Address of the Master and Disc Librarys IP Port Numbers. The Master computer knows its own IP address, so it does not need to be configured there, but the Remote computer(s) must be told how to find the Master. The Remote(s) must also be informed as to the IP port numbers that are configured in the Master. A typical Remote Configuration dialog looks like this:

If you arent sure of the value of the Masters IP address, look in the HTTP.LOG file in the LOGFILES subdirectory of the Disc Library product folder. After you have configured the Master for remote support and then closed the Master and restarted it, the Masters IP address will appear in the successful initialization message in HTTP.LOG. The Remote version of Disc Library is very similar in appearance and function to the Master version. However, the Remote version has read only access to the files that it retrieves from the Master. For this reason, Play Lists can be created and edited only on the Master, cover image files can be assigned only on the Master, and local database entries can be edited only on the Master. Because of these restrictions, the Setup panel and the various editing-related buttons do not appear in the Remote version.

Log Files

There are two types of log files produced by Disc Library. One type, the HTTP.LOG file, is always written when the Disc Library Master is configured for remote support and is made active. This file, and how to control the volume of messages that are written to it, was discussed in the preceding section. Note that Disc Library always appends new messages to the end of the HTTP server log, so it always grows larger, it is never erased. From time to time, you may want to take a look at this file and then delete it, so that it becomes small again. (It is okay to delete the HTTP.LOG file, even while the Disc Library Master is active.) If you are running a remote-enabled Disc Library Master on a computer with an IP address that is visible externally (on the Internet), the HTTP.LOG file will occasionally contain warning and error messages resulting from attempts to break in to your computer. These attempts are usually generated by automated bots that are trying to install malicious software (virus, Trojan Horse, etc.) on your computer. They will not succeed! (At least, not when they are dealing with our HTTP server.) The other type of log file contains initialization, informational, warning, and error messages produced during the course of starting and operating Disc Library itself (as opposed to the built-in HTTP server). The following example shows the Disc Library message log, displayed in a pop-up window:

Unlike the HTTP server log, this type of log file is not cumulative and it is not written automatically. These log files are written only when you use the Message Log interface on the Disc Library menu bar to request that the Disc Library log messages be saved. When Disc Library initialization fails, the message log is directly visible in the Disc Library window, and the menu bar has a Save Message Log button. During normal operation, the menu bar has a View Message Log button, which brings up a popup window that displays the message log, as in the following example: The messages in the viewable message log include all the informational, warning, and error messages that you see displayed on Disc Library panels and in message pop-ups. In addition, the viewable message log may contain some detailed informational messages that you do not see (for example, during Database Operations activities) and detailed messages about certain error conditions (for example, if a CD changer is having unexpected problems). In some cases, a singleline message appears on a Disc Library panel, while a two-line message (with more detail) is placed in the viewable message log. Conversely, some message pop-ups contain an error message followed by several lines of helpful explanation, but only the one-line error message is placed in the viewable message log.
Some warnings produce a beep but the message itself is not displayed on the Disc Library panel or dialog. A typical example of this happens when you click a button that requires a selection, but nothing has been selected. If you are ever unsure as to the reason for such an audible alarm, or even if you saw an error message but forgot what it was, go to the menu bar and click the View Message Log button. The precise warning or error message will be there! When you save the viewable message log, you will be presented with a file chooser dialog that suggests saving it in the LOGFILES subdirectory of the Disc Library product folder. This dialog will also suggest a default file name (MASTER.LOG or REMOTE.LOG, as appropriate). However, you may save the message log in the folder of your choice and under any name that you prefer. Note that you can also use the mouse to select any portion of the text in the viewable message log window, and use the Ctrl-C key to Copy the selected text to the system Clipboard. Then you can Paste the copied message log text into any other application (for example, into an email message).

Border Skins

You can easily change the appearance of the Disc Library window by replacing two skin files. These are graphic image files that are used to generate the neon border around the Disc Library window, in both the highlighted and non-highlighted modes. (The highlighted border is used when the Disc Library window has the focus; otherwise, the non-highlighted border is used.) To change the borders to any graphics of your choosing, simply replace the border_bright.gif and border_dim.gif files in the IMAGES subdirectory of the Disc Library product folder. The replacement files can be in any supported graphics format (JPEG, GIF, TIFF, or PNG) but they must have the gif extension (the actual graphics format will be detected automatically). Your own graphic image files will automatically be scaled to the proper size, but for optimal results your files should be at (or at least near to) the displayed size, which is 704544 pixels. Only the outermost 32 pixels around each edge of the border image are visible; the inner rectangle, which measures 640480 pixels, is hidden behind the Disc Library window. In case you decide to restore the original border skins, backup copies of the standard skin files are also stored in the IMAGES subdirectory of the Disc Library product folder. The backup copies are named dl_border_bright.gif and dl_border_dim.gif; to restore the original borders, simply copy these backup files over your own border_bright.gif and border_dim.gif files.