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20 | <head> | |
21 | <title>Disobedience: Window Layout</title> | |
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24 | href="disobedience.css"> | |
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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 (“3:04”). | |
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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