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

• Press the Expand and Collapse buttons to show or hide the entries under the Selected Artist, Album, Artist, Genre or Playlist.

• Press the Add and Remove buttons to add or remove all the entries under the selected item to the Play Queue.

• Press the Refresh button to rebuild the list from the server.

• Double clicking a tune will add it to the Play Queue. Double clicking any thing else will expand or collapse it.

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

• The currently playing entry is indicated with an icon. Otherwise the position in the queue is shown.

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

• Press the Clear button to remove all tunes from the Play Queue.

• Press the Play button to start playing the selected item.

• Use the Up and Down buttons to reorder the tunes in the Play Queue.

• Double clicking an item will start playing it.

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

• Double click a Genre, Artist or Album will expand or collapse it..

• Press Play on an item to start playing with first tune beneath it.

• Press the Refresh button to rebuild the list from the server.

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 allows you to tune into SHOUTcast internet radio broadcasts.

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

• Use the New, Edit and Delete buttons to add, modify or remove radio stations from the list.

When adding or editing a station, specify the URLs what appear when you hover the mouse over the on www.shoutcast.com. The URL are in the format:

http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=nnnn&file=filename.pls.

Alternatively you may be able drag the from www.shoutcast.com and drop these onto the Player tab.

Listen mode allows you to synchronise playback between multiple Receivers.

• Press Listen to start synchronised 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.
4. Check for the "Warning: LocalHost lookup failed" message in the tRio console (see below).

Ensure that you have installed Java 1.4.2 as the default plug-in for your web browser.

This can be confirmed by looking at the very 1st line in the java console (accessed via the coffee mug in the System Tray). It should read:

Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.2

 

1. Ensure that you are dragging the icons and not the station descriptions.
2. The stations must be dropped into the Player tab.

WARNING: LocalHost lookup failed. You may experience problems connecting via the Web font-end. Please specify the host-name in trio.xml.

If this message appears in the tRio console then change the following line in trio.xml:

<rmi create-registry="true"/>

to:

<rmi create-registry="true" host-name="xxxx"/>

where xxxx is either the host name or ip address of the machine that the tRio server is running on.