help - main navigation bar

The first row of the navigation bar at the top of your screen will allow you to look up artists, genres, and artist types alphabetically. The present mode is displayed on the right: by artist, by genre, or by type. Click on the current mode to switch to the next one.

Clicking on a letter will bring up all artists, or all genres, or all types beginning with that letter. Once the alphabetical list is displayed, click on an individual artist, genre or type to show all artists, or all albums associated with that artist, genre or type. You can also look up artists that begin with a number ('#' - e.g. 10,000 Maniacs), or compilation albums categorized as soundtracks (st) or various (va).

For artists, individuals will generally come up by last name (clicking on 'P' should show 'Presley, Elvis'), bands will generally come up by the first word in the band name, excepting 'the' (click on 'R' to show [the] 'Rolling Stones'). Please note that this depends on whether you or other users have taken the time to properly edit artists names - every artist has both an actual name, and a 'fileunder' name (e.g. "Elvis Presley" vs. "Presley, Elvis"). Thus if you can't find an individual by his or her last name, try the letter for their first name as well. For more on how to categorize artists, genres or types, see editing. Note that editing may be turned off for you by your administrator.

The second row of the main navigation bar has a search box on the left. Enter some text, and calliope will find all album, artist and song titles that contain that text. 'Home' takes you to the front page, 'Show' will bring up a sub-menu that can 'show' a variety of different information screens (recent play history, new albums, database stats, etc.). 'Lists' shows all current lists; edit (if it's turned on for you) will put you in editing mode; 'Listen' will stream music to your computer (if Icecast has been installed and turned on); 'Admin' allows you to set your preferences and a few other things, and of course 'Contact' and 'Help' are self-explanatory.