Making an Autoplay CD-ROM

[evenwolf]

My sister's friend is a widow and her recently deceased husband was a musician. She's a little frazzled understandably, and at first my sister and I thought she was asking me to make her a website. So of course I said I would because I'm versed in wordpress, CSS, some php etc. But what she described in person ended up being something like a CD-Rom press kit.

I can easily design a press kit for her but it's slightly unfamiliar territory and I want to get off on the right foot. ( I don't want to start designing in flash and then realize there's *another* perfect program for this project).

Description:

Person puts CD into computer, a splash screen pops up.
There's a logo and below that is the musician's bio (all this will be one image layout)
20 buttons which play songs when clicked. She envisioned the buttons down the sides, 10 each.
I'd prefer the page include a tiny embedded music controller for fast forwarding


Notes:

Compatible with PC and Mac a must. I'm familiar with autoplay scripting on PC but not Mac. This program can be very basic, this isn't too ambitious as there aren't sub menus or pages. Just one splash screen with 20 songs you can play.  She also wants the songs to play in a CD player if possible.


Any suggestions?  Freeware programs?   ( I know people redirect to their websites these days, but this is what she wants...)

[Wyz]

( I don't want to start designing in flash and then realize there's *another* perfect program for this project).

Well, I you're comfortable with flash that would be good option really. In fact it was what the predecessor of flash (back in the Macromedia days) was designed for. You can create something in flash, have it exported as projector and have it as an auto-play CD. This should also work for Mac I presume but someone should fill me in on that.

[cat]

You could also make a webpage and autostart the index.html (no php then however)
Data and music on the same CD should not be a problem, I think Nero can do this and so will probably most software.

[evenwolf]

Thanks for the input guys.   Too tired to respond at the moment.  I probably will go ahead with plans for flash.   

[Phemar]

I may be stating the obvious here, but I think what you're looking for is an Enhanced CD.