GotRadio Quickstart Guide

GotRadio Quick Start Guide

NAVIGATION TABS:
» View Album Information
» Channel Guide
» Custom Playdecks
» My Favorites
» New Music

PLAYDECK FUNCTIONALITY :
» Create a playdeck
» Edit / Delete a playdeck
» Add a song to your playdeck
» Lock a song
» Music Discovery

PLAYER FUNCTIONALITY :
» Request a song
» Add to Favorites
» Block an artist / song
» "Shuffle" mode
» Rate an artist / song
» Create a channel blend
» Help

NAVIGATION TABS:
- View Song Track Info: The 1st tab is to view album/song information for the song that is currently playing. You may also search for lyrics and link to that artist’s bio.
  
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- Channel Guide: The 2nd tab is the channel guide where you can access and launch any of the GotRadio channel streams, including your own channel blends and custom playdecks.
  
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- Custom Playdeck: The 3rd tab is the Custom Playdeck Editor where you can create, edit, or delete any of your custom playdecks that you might have created. For more help on the custom playdeck editor, click here.
  
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- View / Edit / Delete Favorites and Blocked Songs/Aritsts – The 4th tab on the player is reserved to access and view your blocked and favorite songs and artists. To delete a song or artist which is designated as favorite or blocked, simply check the box next to the song or artist and click on “Remove checked.”
  
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- New Song Additions to Library: The 5th tab on the player will inform our members of all the new music that has been added to our music channels for the past 30 days. We are constantly adding new music to our library, and we feel this will be a very useful tool to alert members of new music available for requests and custom playdecks. Please note that there is a “miscellaneous” playlist which will display any songs that are added to our music library, that do not necessarily fit into a particular music channel format.
  
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PLAYDECK FUNCTIONALITY:
- Create A Custom Playdeck: You may create up to 3 custom playdecks. You will be asked to create a custom playdeck by first choosing a channel template. This may be one channel or a blend of up to 3 channels. Name the channel and Click on the Generate playdeck button.
  
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- Edit / Delete a Custom Playdeck – You may edit or change your custom playdecks at any time by entering the Custom Playdeck tab and choosing “playdecks” and “edit” or “delete” playdeck. To delete a song in your playdeck, simply click on the “x” icon to the right of the song. The song will be deleted and replaced with an unlocked Music discovery slot. You may choose to then replace that music discovery spot with a song of your choice.
  
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- Add A Song to my Custom Playdeck - There are actually 2 ways that our members may add songs to their custom playdeck. The first way is to choose the custom playdeck tab and search for your favorite artist or song. After receiving a list of search results, you can highlight a selected song by placing your mouse on that song and holding down your mouse key. Then you can drag and drop the song anywhere within the playdeck template. At your selected song position, you will then be prompted to either replace or move the song. If you choose to move the song – the song will simply move down one spot in the playdeck and the last song in the playdeck will drop off. You may also reorder your playdeck by simply placing your mouse on any song in the playdeck template and while holding your mouse key down, dragging the song into a new position in your playdeck or by using the up/down arrow keys next to the songs. The other way can be done while listening to one of the GotRadio channels. If you hear a song you’d like to add, simply click on the “my list” button on the player. You will be prompted to select one of your custom playdecks. Then that playdeck will appear. Choose a song to replace and hit the “save” button. Please note that only the “unlocked” songs will appear on the provided list to replace a song with a new favorite song in your custom playdeck. Please note that you must always click “Save” for your custom playdeck updates to go into effect.
  
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- Lock a Song: Once you have a song in position in your custom playdeck, you may lock the song into place by clicking on the little lock icon next to a song. Please note that all music discovery songs are automatically locked. This will ensure that while listening to a GotRadio channel if you request a song to be added to your custom playdeck, then all “locked” songs will be passed over and not replaced.
  
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- Music Discovery –You will notice in your custom playdeck that every 7th song is reserved and locked as Music Discovery. This is where we will have the opportunity to showcase new music and songs or artists that we feel you would enjoy based upon which channel template(s) you selected to build your custom playdeck on.
  
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PLAYER FUNCTIONALITY :
- Request a song - When Listening to one of the GotRadio channels, you may dynamically request any song from our music library by simply typing in an artist name or song title to view all music selections in the request a song search engine box. (Please note that it is easy to mistype a song title name, so if your selection is not coming up via a song title search, you may try a broader artist search.) A list of available song selections will appear directly in the search box. Click on a selection to auto-insert into your stream. You may hit the fast forward button to advance to your requested song. You may request up to 10 songs per listening session. *Please note that the song request feature is not available in your custom playdecks. If you wish to add a song to your custom playdeck, please use the custom playdeck editor.
  
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- Add to Favorites - To add a favorite song to any channel that you are currently listening to, click on the “favs” button while a song is playing or request a song, fast forward to that song and click "favs". Select to either add that song or artist to the channel that you are currently listening to. From that point on, that song will appear every time in that channel, regardless of our program. If you select the “Add that Artist” option, what will happen is, if you have run out of favorites for that channel, then the system will begin to select songs in our library from that artist. All favorites will appear every 5th song in your stream. Please note that the more favorites you add, the more customized your stream becomes. Also note that your favorites will not "set" until you close out the player and return for your next listening session.
  
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- Block a Song/Artist - If a song or artist that you don’t care for is playing in a GotRadio channel, you may choose to block that song or artist by simply clicking on the “block” button. You will be prompted to either block that song or artist. From that point on, that song or any songs from that artist, depending on what option you choose, will be blocked from that channel. *Please note that the block a song feature, like the add to favorites feature is channel specific, so if a blocked song happens to show up in another channel, you will need to block it in that channel as well.
  
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- Shuffle your Playdeck – The shuffle feature will only work with your custom playdeck. After choosing to listen to one of your custom playdecks, if you wish to shuffle the songs in your playdeck to playback in a different order , simply click on the “shuf” button on your player. The button will light up. The songs will play back in a different order while in shuffle mode. If you wish to get back to your original custom playdeck order, simply click on the lighted “shuf” button.
  
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- Rate A Song/Artist – You may rate a song or artist by clicking on the “stars” next to the song title or artist title in the display window in your player. Your ratings directly affect and compile our community top 10 lists located in our website.
  
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- Create a Channel Blend – Select the "Channel Listing tab and click on "New Channel Blend". Choose a name for that channel. Select any combination of 2 to 3 channels for a unique channel blend. Feel free to customize your channel blend further by adding favorites or blocking songs/artists.
  
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- Help and FAQ - Did you find what you needed in this help section? If not, please contact technical support via email, or open a support ticket in the accounts section of our website.
  
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