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From: MattBeedle@aol.com
Subject: BetterPlayer

BetterPlayer 1.0 was FTP to infomac.org as betterplayer.hqx, below is the 
press release that went with the file.

contact: Matthew Beedle @ MattBeedle@aol.com
President of Foxchange Shareware @ http://www.foxchange.com

Foxchange Shareware announces
BetterPlayer 1.0, the alternate QuickTime Player

February 1, 2000, Battle Mountain, NV - Foxchange Shareware announces the 
release of BetterPlayer 1.0.

BetterPlayer is a freeware open source utility that plays QuickTime movies 
without the clunky UN-Mac like interface that was introduced into QuickTime 
Player and Sherlock 2.

BetterPlayer plays QuickTime movies that are either dropped onto the 
application or opened within. Once a QT movie has been opened, users can 
change the file type and creator so that the file will open with BetterPlayer 
by default. Other useful options that have been added are automatically play 
and loop options that can be applied to every file individually. This is 
especially cool for those that have a favorite MIDI file they like to listen 
too, just double click and the file will start to open.

To make life easier, these settings can become default settings as well as 
the option to automatically change the file type and creator to that of 
BetterPlayer. Just as important as applying these settings, they can also be 
removed restoring the file to it's natural state. Since the only thing that 
BetterPlayer adds is a STR# to the resource fork, no data can be damaged by 
the application.

Foxchange Shareware has released BetterPlayer as open source software so that 
other programmers can extend the application's functionality. Several things 
are planned for future releases, the ability to add a resource fork to a file 
that doesn't have one so BetterPlayer can work with it, sizing options, 
remembering window positions as well as basic editing features.

BetterPlayer is the foundation for another unnamed application that Foxchange 
Shareware may be developing in the possible future.

Currently BetterPlayer 1.0 is available for download at 
ftp://ftp.foxchange.com
The latest version of BetterPlayer can be found at http://www.foxchange.com

As well as the goal of producing high quality games for the Mac market, 
Foxchange Shareware is also going to be introducing utilities into the Mac 
market.