Unit Settings

Each Receiver has a Settings link which shows its connection status and allows you to:

• Remotely power-down a Receiver via the Power Off button.

• Reboot a Receiver via the Reboot button.

• Toggle a Receiver between Active and Standby modes via the Standby / Activate button

• Change the name of a Receiver by changing the Unit Name field and clicking the Rename button. Use the Reset button to cancel the update mid-way through.

• Check the IP Address, Hardware (MAC) Address, and connection status (connected or not connected) of a Receiver

Playing Music

When a unit connects the Player button becomes usable next to the Settings button:

• Use the “slider” to adjust the volume settings. The slider isn’t a widget, but a clickable picture – clicking towards the left of the slider will lower the volume, clicking towards the right will raise the volume.

• The Stop/Clear, Play/Pause, Prev and Next buttons do what you'd expect.

• The Repeat and Random buttons bring cycle through the repeat and random modes available for the current Playback Mode when pressed. For example, clicking on Repeat will change the icon from “Repeat off” to “Repeat one” to “Repeat all”.

• Change Play Mode: The clickable links next to Mode will change a Receiver’s Play Mode from Queue ‘n Play, to Jukebox, to Radio, to Listen (to another Receiver).

• Below the Mode buttons are clickable links appropriate for the current Play Mode – viewing the Queue, adding to the Queue, choosing a Receiver to Listen to, etc..

Queue 'n Play Mode

In Queue 'n Play mode, the Artist, Album, Genre and Playlist links are used to add tunes to the Play Queue. These can then played with various repeat and random settings.

• Press the Sel link to bring up the entries under the Selected Artist, Album, Artist, Genre or Playlist.

• Press the Add and Rem link to add or remove all the entries under the selected item to or from the Play Queue.

• Press the Show Range link to shorten or expand the list from the server to a single number / letter. Each selectable letter is to the left of the show range link. This speeds things up considerably if you have a large music collection.

The Play Queue link shows the contents of the Play Queue and allows you to skip directly to a particular entry:

• Clicking on any play link will jump to that point in the playlist and immediately play that song.

• Press the remove link to remove the selected item from the Play Queue. Playback will stop if the item was being played.

• Press the remove all link to remove all tunes from the Play Queue.

Jukebox Mode

Jukebox mode allows you to position yourself anywhere within your music collection and start playing from there onwards. Powerful Repeat and Random modes allow you to repeat within the current Genre, Artist, Album or Tune.

The By Artist link presents your collection by Tune within Album within Artist. The By Genre link presents Tune within Album with Artist within Genre.

• Click on the By Genre link, you will be presented with a list of Genres – clicking on the sel link will expand that list by Artist and clicking the sel link will expand the list by Album, and then on to expand by list of songs within that album.

• Use the play link on an item to start playing with first tune beneath it.

The following Repeat Modes are supported:

If Random Mode is on then the next tune to be played will be chosen at random from within the Repeat scope.

Radio Mode

Radio mode allows you to tune into SHOUTcast internet radio broadcasts.

• Click or press the Play button to start listening to the selected station.

Stations can not be edited, added, or deleted from the thin web interface. You will need to add each of these stations to the trio.xml file, or use the Applet Front-end to edit the stations.

Listen Mode

Listen mode allows you to synchronize playback between multiple Receivers. Place the Receiver in Listen mode by clicking on the Listen link in the list of Modes.

• When in Listen mode, click on the Listen To link to bring up a list of available receivers.

• Click the Listen link to start synchronized playback with the selected player (if available).

The availability of the Receivers in the Listen To tab is indicated by the following icons:

	not connected	the Receiver cannot be synchronised because is not currently connected to the tRio server.
	not accesible	the Receiver cannot be synchronised because it is on a different network.
	circular	the Receiver cannot be synchronised with because it is listening to this unit
	standby	the Receiver cannot be synchronised with because it is in Standby mode
	private	the Receiver cannot be synchronised with because its access level is set to Private
	protected	the Receiver can be synchronised with, but not controlled by this Receiver
	public	the Receiver can be both synchronised with and controlled from this Receiver

1. Check that the tRio Server is running.
2. Check that the xxxx part of the address points to the correct host name or ip address.
3. Check that you have not missed out the :8090 part of the address.

Try using the Show Range link to the right of the A-Z banners. This will download just the selected letter on the alphabet from the server.

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