This chapter contains a tour of the main Disobedience + window.
+ +Disobedience should look something like this when you've started + it up and logged in:
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At the top is the menu bar, and immediately below it a toolbar + with some buttons and a volume control. (In some cases the volume + control may be absent.) Below that is a row of + tabs: Queue, Recent and so on. The Queue tab + is selected: this displays the currently playing track and the list + of tracks that will play in the near future.
+ +In this example nothing is actually playing. (Apart from the + fact that you wouldn't hear anything) you can tell this because the + top row only has a single length indicator (“3:04”). + If it was playing it would show how far through the track it was + too. Secondly, all the tracks were chosen at random. You can tell + this because the Who column is empty. + +
In the screenshot below both of these things have changed. + Use rjk has selected some tracks and the first of them is + playing.
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The playing track is highlighted with a green backgroud. It's 4 + minutes and 10 seconds long and so far, the first 21 seconds of it + has played.
+ +The meaning of the buttons is as follows:
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+ The pause button. This only effective when a track is + playing. When it is pressed the playing track is paused. | +
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+ The scratch button. As above this is only effective when + a track is playing. Pressing it will stop that track playing + and move onto the next one. | +
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+ The random play button. Random play, which is enabled + when the button is depressed, means that if + nothing is playing the server will automatically pick a track + at random and play that. Furthermore it will ensure that the + queue always has a minimum number of tracks, so you can see + ahead of time what will play next. | +
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+ The playing button. Normally this would always be left + enabled, i.e. with the button depressed. + If it is disabled then nothing will be + played at all, regardless of whether it was randomly chosen + or picked by a human. | +
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+ The network play button. This is only effective if the + server is playing over the network (as opposed to using a + local sound card). When network play is enabled, + Disobedience runs a client program on your computer to play + sound received over the network using your sound card. | +
To the right of the buttons are two sliders:
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The left hand slider is the volume control. This ranges from 0 + (silent) to 10 (loudest). The right hand slider is the balance + control, which ranges form -1.0 (left) to +1.0 (right).
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The Server menu is loosely analogous to the File + menu in othe applications. It has no file-related options though, + so the name would not be appropriate! Instead the three options it + has are Login, which brings back the login window shown the + first time it is run, Manage Users which allows + adminstrators to do user management, and Quit.
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The Edit menu has options to select or deselect all + tracks. You can also do this with CTRL-A and CTRL-SHIFT-A, and of + course you can select tracks in the queue (or other tabs) with the + mouse.
+ +The Track Properties option will create a window with + editable properties of each selected + track and the Edit Playlists option will create a window + allowing editing of playlists.
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The Control menu options are mostly equivalent to the + buttons described above. The exceptions are:
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The Help menu has an option to bring up the Disobedience + manual and an About option which will display a bit of + version information for the server and for Disobedience (which + might not be the same).
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