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Sourcetone Interactive Radio Help

	Emotion Wheel The Emotion Wheel is the gateway between you, the listener, and Sourcetone Interactive Radio. At any time, you can click on any emotion in the wheel to initiate a new stream of music within that emotional space. For instance, if you want to hear calm music, click on the word calm in the Emotion Wheel and calm music will start to play. If you’d like to hear happy music, click on the word happy in the Emotion Wheel and happy music will start to play. You’ll notice that there are a number of emotions inside the wheel that are only apparent as you scroll over them.
	Genre Menu Along the top of the player you'll find the Select Genre button. The Select Genre button allows you to pick which style of music you would like to hear. For example, you can choose pop, rock, classical, jazz or any dozens of others.
	Help Button Clicking on the help button on the top of the interface will allow you to view the Sourcetone Interactive Radio video tutorial.
	Volume Slider The volume adjuster allows you to increase or decrease the volume by moving the slider to the left or the right. Moving the slider all the way to the left will mute the player altogether.
	Mute/UnMute Button You can also click on this speaker icon to the right of the slider to mute automatically. Always make sure that the volume on your computer is on and turned up to hear Sourcetone Interactive Radio.
	Bypass Wheel Button At any time, if you just want to listen to music without interacting with the Emotion Wheel, click on this button labeled Bypass Wheel. The Bypass Wheel button will allow tracks of random emotions to be played. Remember, if you want to take advantage of the truly personalized service that is Sourcetone Interactive Radio, use the Emotion Wheel as much as you can.
	Progress Bar The progress bar lets you know how far into the currently playing track you are, and how much is left to go.
	Stars To the right side of the player, you can tell us how much you like or dislike the track you’re listening to. Our 5 star rating function lets you rate any track from 1 to 5 stars. The more stars are rated for a track, the more often you’ll hear that track in the future. We also use this function to recommend tracks that are similar to those you like.
	Add to Favorites Buttons Adding a song, album or artist to your favorites using these buttons will put your selection into a more heavy rotation so you will hear it more frequently. You can manage your favorites on your preferences page.
	Add to Bans Buttons Banning ensures that the track, album or artist you ban by clicking these buttons will never play again. You can manage your bans on your preferences page.
	Track History Button The Track History button will display the last 20 tracks that you've heard.
	Manage Favorites Button Clicking on Mange Favorites will display all of the artists, albums, and tracks you’ve added to your favorites in the history grid.
	Manage Bans Button Clicking on Manage Favorites will display all of the artists, albums, and tracks you’ve banned in the history grid.
	Radio Roulette Button Radio Roulette is a fun way to discover new music. It initiates a random stream of tracks from various genres and emotions, many of which are the latest additions to the Sourcetone Interactive Radio library. Holding down the Radio Roulette button will cause the Sourcetone icon to jump around the wheel until you let the button go, starting a new track within a random emotion.
	Request Music Button If you haven’t heard music that you would like to hear and want to make a request for a certain track, album, or artist, just click on the Request Music button. A new window will appear where you can fill in the information on the music you’d like to hear. Sourcetone Interactive Radio adds new music to its library every day. The requests that you make will give us a better idea of what our audience wants to listen to.
	Tracks, Albums, Artists Buttons These buttons allow you to navigate between tracks, albums and artists when you are in the Manage Favorites view or the Manage Bans view.
	History Grid The history grid allows you to view your recent activity. When the Track History button is clicked, the grid will show you the last 20 tracks you’ve listened to. If you click the Manage Favorites button, the grid will show you which songs, albums and artists you have added to your favorites. Clicking the Manage Bans button will display the tracks, albums and artists you have banned. You can use the grid to change your star ratings, too. Just click in the star column of the song you want to change and type your rating.
	Delete Button If you'd like to delete an item from either your favorites or bans, highlight the item in the history grid and click on this delete button. The item(s) will be deleted from the selected list.
	Vendor Buttons The 3 icons at the bottom of the music player give you the option to purchase any track you hear from any one of our 4 partner vendors. For your convenience, we give you the option to purchase tracks from Amazon, iTunes, or Emusic. As you’re listening to Sourcetone Interactive Radio, if you hear a track you’d like to purchase, simply click on any of the available vendor links. This will take you to the page on the partner site where you can make your purchase. If a vendor link is grayed out, the song you requested is not available at that vendor.
	White Sourcetone Icon The white Sourcetone icon in the emotion wheel indicates that you have not yet attributed an emotion to the currently playing song. Move the icon in the wheel to tell us what emotion you think the song represents.
	Blue Sourcetone Icon The blue Sourcetone icon in the emotion wheel indicates the emotion you last attributed to this song. Move the icon in the wheel to change your emotion rating. Double click the icon to return it to the white color and the default Sourcetone emotion.
	Color Slider If you ever want to change the color of the Emotion Wheel, use this color slider located on the right side of the wheel.
	Logout Link Click this link to logout of the player.
	Profile Link Click this link to view or update your Listener Profile.
	Help Link Click this link to view the help pages.
	Rate Link Click this link to visit our online test, where you can rapidly rate many songs and give us a better idea of what emotions you attribute to music!