Audacity Portable Launcher 1.

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Copyright 2004-2008 John T. Haller of PortableApps.com
Website: http://PortableApps.com/AudacityPortable
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ABOUT AUDACITY PORTABLE
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The Audacity Portable Launcher allows you to run Audacity from a removable drive
whose letter changes as you move it to another computer. The sound editor and
the settings can be entirely self-contained on the drive and then used on any Wi
ndows computer.
LICENSE
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This code is released under the GPL. Within the AudacityPortableSource director
y you will find the code (AudacityPortable.nsi) as well as the full GPL license
(License.txt). If you use the launcher or code in your own product, please give
proper and prominent attribution.
INSTALLATION / DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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By default, the program expects this directory structure:
-\ <--- Directory with AudacityPortable.exe
+\App\
+\Audacity\
+\LAME\
+\Data\
+\settings\
It can be used in other directory configurations by including the AudacityPortab
le.ini file in the same directory as AudacityPortable.exe and configuring it as
details in the INI file section below. The INI file may also be placed in a sub
directory of the directory containing AudacityPortable.exe called AudacityPortab
le or 2 directories deep in PortableApps\AudacityPortable or Data\AudacityPortab
le. All paths in the INI should remain relative to the EXE and not the INI.
AudacityPortable.INI CONFIGURATION

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The Audacity Portable Launcher will look for an ini file called AudacityPortable
.ini within its directory (see the paragraph above in the Installation/Directory
Structure section). If you are happy with the default options, it is not neces
sary, though. There is an example INI included with this package to get you sta
rted. The INI file is formatted as follows:
[AudacityPortable]
AudacityDirectory=App\audacity
LAMEDirectory=App\LAME
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
AudacityExecutable=audacity.exe
AdditionalParameters=
DisableSplashScreen=false
The AudacityDirectory, LAMEDirectory and SettingsDirectory entries should be set
to the *relative* path to the directories containing Audacity.exe, lame_enc.dll
and your settings from the current directory. All must be a subdirectory (or m
ultiple subdirectories) of the directory containing AudacityPortable.exe. The d
efault entries for these are described in the installation section above.
The SettingsFile entry is the name of your Audacity settings file within the Set
tingsDirectory.
The AudacityExecutable entry allows you to give an alternate filename for the Au
dacity executable.
The AdditionalParameters entry allows you to specify additional parameters to be
passed to Audacity on the command line.
The DisableSplashScreen entry allows you to run the Audacity Portable Launcher w
ithout the splash screen showing up. The default is false.
PROGRAM HISTORY / ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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This launcher is loosely based on the Firefox Portable launcher, which contains
methods suggested by mai9 and tracon of the mozillaZine.org forums.