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Once the program has been started there are three areas of interest:
On top there are the two players.
In the middle there's a playlist.
On the bottom there's a browser, search applet, track information and this help, selectable via tabs.
Press the "Connect" button to connect to DerMixD. The button is named "Start" if DerMixD is run via Partyman. After a successful connection, Partyman will start playing automatically. If the playlist is empty, it will pick a random file from the database. 10 seconds before that track ends, the other player kicks off. You can also switch to the other player instantly by pressing the "Next"-Button.

A track from a player can be unloaded by pressing the right mouse button on the "ready" label.

To fill the playlist just browse the database with mouse or keyboard. The enter key, double clicking or pressing the right mouse button will add the track to the bottom of the playlist. A right mouse button click on a folder will add all contents and sub-contents. You can also copy the tracklist to the clipboard and use the "Load" function from the "Start" menu. Double clicking, Pressing delete or the right mouse button will delete all selected tracks in the playlist. Click and hold an entry to move it.

For using the search just enter a substring of the desired track name, the filename will be searched. Pressing enter will start the search, wildcard searching is supported, either using the glob placeholders "?" and "*" or the database placeholders "_" and "%". Found entries can be moved to the playlist by selecting them and double clicking, pressing enter or the right mouse button. Pressing delete will remove them without moving into the playlist.

Information about the currently played track are available in the "Info" tab. These informations will be loaded from the SLART database which can be filled using Rubberbandman, the tag editor from the SLART package. A track can be marked either as a favorite track or a track that should not be selected automatically from the database.

The following shortcuts are available
F1 - Switch to Help tab
F2 - Switch to Info tab
F3 - Switch to Search tab
F4 - Switch to Browse tab

Complete filenames with path will be displayed as tooltips.

You can also set a tray icon, which can display the currently played track. Click on it to play, pause and resume, double-click on it for skipping to the next track.


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