This document describes how to use tRio via a web-browser. Click here for instructions on how to use it via the Front Panel and Remote Control and here for the thin front-end.
To start the web-based front end, point your web-browser to the following address:
http://xxxx:8090/trio-applet.htm
where xxxx is either the ip address or host name of the machine that is running the tRio server.
If this does not work, see the trouble shooting section below.
The panel on the left of the applet lists the Rio Receivers that are or have been connected to the tRio Server:
Each Receiver has a Status Tab which shows its connection status and allows you to:
When a unit connects a Player tab appears next to the Status tab:
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.
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The Queue tab shows the contents of the Play Queue and allows you to skip directly to a particular entry:
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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.
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. |
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Radio mode allows you to tune into SHOUTcast internet radio broadcasts.
When adding or editing a station, specify the URLs what appear when you
hover the mouse over the http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=nnnn&file=filename.pls. Alternatively you may be able drag the |
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Listen mode allows you to synchronise playback between multiple Receivers.
The availability of the Receivers in the Listen To tab is indicated by the following icons:
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Getting "The page cannot be displayed" error. |
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Getting "Applet failed to initialise" error. | 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:
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Drag and Drop not working for from shoutcast.com |
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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:
to:
where xxxx is either the host name or ip address of the machine that the tRio server is running on. |
The following attributes can be edited in trio.xml to change the defaults used the the web front-end.
WARNING: Do not change these values unless you know what you are doing.
Attribute | Parent Element | Description | Default |
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port | http-server | the port on which the tRio http server runs | 8090 |
root | http-server | the root used for locating documents, archives and images | the tRio install directory |
create-registry | rmi | whether tRio should start its own RMI registry on not | true |
host-name | rmi | the host name to be used when binding the RMI service | the local machine's host name |
port | rmi | the port on which the RMI registry will run | 1099 (java default) |