Mr. Voice 2.2 Installation and Reference Manual

H. Wade Minter


Acknowledgements

Thanks to my wife, Holly, for encouragement and editorial help.

Thanks to the authors and publishers, and contributors of the following books and newsgroups, without which none of this would have gotten done:

The improv groups who have been willing to actually run this software! See the list at the Mr. Voice Website

Thanks to Derek Lane of the Raleigh Perl Mongers for suggesting the move to SQLite as a database backend.

And thanks to the Open Source and Free Software movements, letting people write software that doesn't suck!

Mr. Voice is dedicated to the memory of Andy Sepelak (4/4/78 - 3/11/02), a fine improviser and a good man. He will be missed.

Table of Contents
Foreword
What's New
1. What's new in Version 2.2?
2. What's new in Version 2.1.2?
3. What's new in Version 2.1.1?
4. What's new in Version 2.1?
5. What's new in Version 2.0?
1. Installing Mr. Voice
1.1. Required Components
1.1.1. Microsoft Windows
1.1.2. Unix/Linux/BSD
1.2. Installation Steps
1.2.1. Upgrading to Mr. Voice 2.0
1.2.2. Unix Installation Instructions
1.2.3. Windows Installation Instructions
2. Configuring Mr. Voice
2.1. Configuration Options and Variables
2.1.1. Database Options
2.1.2. File Paths
2.1.3. Search Options
2.1.4. Online Options
2.1.5. Other
2.1.6. Manual Configuration
3. Using Mr. Voice
3.1. Adding, Deleting, and Editing Songs and Categories
3.1.1. Categories
3.1.2. Songs
3.2. Searching and Playing Songs
3.2.1. Searching The Database
3.2.2. Playing Songs
3.2.3. Exiting Mr. Voice
3.3. Hotkeys
3.3.1. Configuring Hotkeys
3.3.2. Using Hotkeys
3.3.3. Saving and Loading Hotkeys
3.3.4. The Holding Tank
4. Mr. Voice Online
4.1. What Is Mr. Voice Online?
4.2. Using Mr. Voice Online
4.2.1. Downloading Songs
4.2.2. Uploading Songs
4.3. Using The Mr. Voice Online Website
5. Troubleshooting and FAQs
A. Known Bugs and Issues
B. Contributing, Contacting, and Bug Reporting
C. Software License
List of Figures
2-1. The Preferences window
3-1. The Main window
3-2. The Add Category window
3-3. The Delete Category window
3-4. The Add Song window
3-5. The Add Song File Selection window
3-6. The Delete Song window
3-7. Orphaned Files Report
3-8. The Hotkey window
3-9. The Holding Tank window