There are certain cases where you would like Zoom Player to automatically play the content of an archive file (ZIP/RAR/7Z/etc...).
Popular cases include ZIP/RAR/ALBW MP3 (or other audio format) Album Collection, CPZ/CPR Comicbook Archive or even a compressed
video you downloaded off the internet.
To use this feature, you must have Zoom Player Professional installed. Once installed, open the Advanced Options dialog and go
to the "System / Paths, Folders and Files"" page. Within this page you can see the "Archive Playback" dialog listing supported Archive
file formats.
Zoom Player is pre-configured to support the popular (and free) file compression suite
7-Zip. 7-Zip can extract nearly every archive format (with the exception of
ALBW).
Zoom Player assumes that 7-Zip is installed under "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\". If it is not, you will have to highlight each file
format on this dialog and click the "Edit" button to change the path to 7-Zip.
When dealing with the ALBW (AlbumWrap) format, Zoom Player is pre-configured to use the Open-Source
Mp3splt project to extract the files
(Zoom Player assumes the "mp3splt.exe" file is installed in "c:\program files\ALBW\", modify the ALBW
entry if you installed it elsewhere).
To add support for additional formats, such as the Comicbook CBZ/CBR formats (Which are actually renamed ZIP/RAR extensions),
simply click on the "Add" button. When prompted for an extension, type "CBZ". You will next be prompted for a command line.
Using 7-Zip, you can give the following command line: "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "%n" "-o%p"
The %n and %p tags represent the Name of the file and the Path to extract to (they are dynamic tags, Zoom Player
automatically converts the tags to actual values which are generated internally.
One more thing you should do is add the new Archive Extension to the Zoom Player extension lists so that Zoom Player will know
to show these file formats in its Open Dialogs. This is done under "Advanced Options / System / File Extensions". Within this
dialog you will see an "Archives" entry. Simply add the extension to the end of the line, for example "7Z;ALBW;ARJ;BZ2;CAB;RAR;ZIP;CBZ".
One last thing you will notice on the "Archive Playback" dialog is an "Allow EXT anywhere in name" check box. When enabled,
Zoom Player will accept named file extensions as a valid archive format. For example, Zoom Player will detect a file
named "myalbum.zip.mp3" as a ZIP archive. Another example would be "cooltracks.albw.mp3" which Zoom Player will assume is
an ALBW AlbumWrap file.
