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2. Window Layout
- This chapter covers the following topics:
+ This chapter contains a tour of the main Disobedience
+ window.
-
-
- 2.1 The Disobedience Window
+
Disobedience should look something like this when you've started
it up and logged in:
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- The first track is 4 minutes and 10 seconds long and so far, the
- first 21 seconds of it has played.
+ 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.
- 2.2 Buttons
+
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 and
- the button turns into a “play” icon instead. |
+ playing. When it is pressed the playing track is paused.
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 |
- The random play button. Random play means that if
+
+ | 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.
- As shown, random play is disabled. The button goes green
- when it is enabled. |
+ ahead of time what will play next.
 |
The playing button. Normally this would always be left
- enabled (green). If it is disabled then nothing will be
+ 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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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.
- As shown, network play is disabled. The button goes green
- when it is enabled.
+ sound received over the network using your sound card.
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(silent) to 10 (loudest). The right hand slider is the balance
control, which ranges form -1.0 (left) to +1.0 (right).
- 2.3 The Menu Bar
+
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first time it is run, Manage Users which allows
adminstrators to do user management, and Quit.
-
+
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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.
-
-
-
-
+ editable properties of each selected
+ track and the Edit Playlists option will create a window
+ allowing editing of playlists.
The Control menu options are mostly equivalent to the
- buttons described above. The one exception is Activate
- Playlist which allows you to play a playlist.
+ buttons described above. The exceptions are:
-
+
+ - Compact Mode which switches Disobedience's window to a smaller format.
+ - Global Preferences which allows global server settings to be modified.
+ - Activate Playlist which allows you to play a playlist.
+ - Network Playback API which allows you to select the audio playback API used when playing over the network.
+
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version information for the server and for Disobedience (which
might not be the same).
+
+
+ Back to contents
+