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19<html>
20 <head>
21 <title>Disobedience: Window Layout</title>
22 <link rel=stylesheet
23 type="text/css"
24 href="disobedience.css">
25 </head>
26 <body>
27 <h1>2. Window Layout</h1>
28
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29 <p>This chapter contains a tour of the main Disobedience
30 window.</p>
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d365231a 32 <h2><a name=main>2.1 The Disobedience Window</a></h2>
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33
34 <p>Disobedience should look something like this when you've started
35 it up and logged in:</p>
36
37 <p class=image><img src="queue.png"></p>
38
39 <p>At the top is the menu bar, and immediately below it a toolbar
40 with some buttons and a volume control. (In some cases the volume
41 control may be absent.) Below that is a row of
42 tabs: <b>Queue</b>, <b>Recent</b> and so on. The <b>Queue</b> tab
43 is selected: this displays the currently playing track and the list
44 of tracks that will play in the near future.</p>
45
46 <p>In this example nothing is actually playing. (Apart from the
47 fact that you wouldn't hear anything) you can tell this because the
48 top row only has a single length indicator (&ldquo;3:04&rdquo;).
49 If it was playing it would show how far through the track it was
50 too. Secondly, all the tracks were chosen at random. You can tell
51 this because the <b>Who</b> column is empty.
52
53 <p>In the screenshot below both of these things have changed.
54 Use <tt>rjk</tt> has selected some tracks and the first of them is
55 playing.</p>
56
57 <p class=image><img src="queue2.png"></p>
58
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59 <p>The playing track is highlighted with a green backgroud. It's 4
60 minutes and 10 seconds long and so far, the first 21 seconds of it
61 has played.</p>
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d365231a 63 <h2><a name=buttons>2.2 Buttons</a></h2>
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64
65 <p>The meaning of the buttons is as follows:</p>
66
67 <table>
68 <tr>
69 <td><img src="button-pause.png"></td>
70 <td>The pause button. This only effective when a track is
1ff5c1b0 71 playing. When it is pressed the playing track is paused.</td>
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72 </tr>
73
74 <tr>
75 <td><img src="button-scratch.png"></td>
76 <td>The scratch button. As above this is only effective when
77 a track is playing. Pressing it will stop that track playing
78 and move onto the next one.</td>
79 </tr>
80
81 <tr>
82 <td><img src="button-random.png"></td>
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83
84 <td>The random play button. Random play, which is enabled
85 when the button is depressed, means that if
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86 nothing is playing the server will automatically pick a track
87 at random and play that. Furthermore it will ensure that the
88 queue always has a minimum number of tracks, so you can see
1ff5c1b0 89 ahead of time what will play next.</td>
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90 </tr>
91
92 <tr>
93 <td><img src="button-playing.png"></td>
94 <td>The playing button. Normally this would always be left
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95 enabled, i.e. with the button depressed.
96 If it is disabled then nothing will be
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97 played at all, regardless of whether it was randomly chosen
98 or picked by a human.</td>
99 </tr>
100
101 <tr>
102 <td><img src="button-rtp.png"></td>
103 <td>The network play button. This is only effective if the
104 server is playing over the network (as opposed to using a
105 local sound card). When network play is enabled,
106 Disobedience runs a client program on your computer to play
1ff5c1b0 107 sound received over the network using your sound card.</td>
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108 </tr>
109 </table>
110
111 <p>To the right of the buttons are two sliders:</p>
112
113 <p class=image><img src="volume-slider.png"></p>
114
115 <p>The left hand slider is the volume control. This ranges from 0
116 (silent) to 10 (loudest). The right hand slider is the balance
117 control, which ranges form -1.0 (left) to +1.0 (right).</p>
118
d365231a 119 <h2><a name=menu>2.3 The Menu Bar</a></h2>
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120
121 <p class=image><img src="menu-server.png"></p>
122
123 <p>The <b>Server</b> menu is loosely analogous to the <b>File</b>
124 menu in othe applications. It has no file-related options though,
125 so the name would not be appropriate! Instead the three options it
126 has are <b>Login</b>, which brings back the login window shown the
127 first time it is run, <b>Manage Users</b> which allows
128 adminstrators to do user management, and <b>Quit</b>.</p>
129
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131
132 <p class=image><img src="menu-edit.png"></p>
133
134 <p>The <b>Edit</b> menu has options to select or deselect all
135 tracks. You can also do this with CTRL-A and CTRL-SHIFT-A, and of
136 course you can select tracks in the queue (or other tabs) with the
137 mouse.</p>
138
139 <p>The <b>Track Properties</b> option will create a window with
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140 editable <a href="properties.html">properties</a> of each selected
141 track and the <b>Edit Playlists</b> option will create a window
142 allowing editing of <a href="playlists.html">playlists</a>.</p>
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143
144 <p class=image><img src="menu-control.png"></p>
145
146 <p>The <b>Control</b> menu options are mostly equivalent to the
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147 buttons described above. The exceptions are:</p>
148
149 <ul>
150 <li><b>Compact Mode</b> which switches Disobedience's window to a smaller format.</li>
151 <li><b>Global Preferences</b> which allows global server settings to be modified.</li>
152 <li><b>Activate Playlist</b> which allows you to play a <A href="playlists.html">playlist</a>.</li>
a2364abb 153 <li><b>Network Playback API</b> which allows you to select the audio playback API used when playing over the network.</li>
a80fe344 154 </ul>
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155
156 <p class=image><img src="menu-help.png"></p>
157
158 <p>The <b>Help</b> menu has an option to bring up the Disobedience
159 manual and an <b>About</b> option which will display a bit of
160 version information for the server and for Disobedience (which
161 might not be the same).</p>
162
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163 <hr>
164
165 <a href="index.html">Back to contents</a>
166
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