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SLTunes: Getting Started

Getting Started

Playing a Radio Station in iTunes

User Permissions

Using Favorites

Sim/Server Lag

To Get Started, Do this:

Make sure iTunes and SLTunes are closed.
Click on SLTunes on your land. When you get to the "Connect to SLTunes" webpage, click on "connect".
SLTunes will start, then connect, then open up iTunes for you. Do not open iTunes separately.
After SLTunes is connected, chose a radio station in iTunes and play it.

That is it! SLTunes will automatically set the Music URL on your land to the radio station playing in iTunes. You can close iTunes when you have set a station you like.

Give iTunes, SLTunes and Second Life a minute to connect and synchronize. If after a little while, the station doesn't play, click here.

Your SLTunes dialog should look something like this when you are successful:

Note that if there is no text next to "Song:", it will still work, and the song text will still (usually) come up when the station plays the next song.

But How Do I Play a Radio Station in iTunes?

On the left of iTunes there is a series of icons, one saying "Radio". Click on "Radio". You will get categories of music you can explore. Pick a station, then click the "Play" button.

See the areas marked in red.

There is more extensive information on playing radio stations in iTunes here, if you want to know how to organize stations into "playlists" and so on.

User Permissions

You may want to share your radio with a special someone, or perhaps you rent land and want to give your tenant access. There are two kinds of permissions you can set:

Full: User has access to set the radio station through iTunes, and can add and remove Favorites.
Limited: User can change the radio station on your land through Favorites only.

To add someone's name, just click on "Full" or "Limited" and add their name to the list. Be sure and check spelling!

The original owner of the radio always will have full permission to use the radio, whether they are on the list or not. Their permission can never be removed.

How Do I Use the Favorites Button?

When you click the "Favorites" button on you SLTunes radio, you will get a dialog with the current station playing, and a "Next" and "Previous" buttons. Until you add stations, these buttons will not change the station.

If you own the radio, or are listed as a "Full Permissions" user, you will also have a "Add" and "Remove" button.

When you press "Add", the current station now playing on your land will be added to favorites. You can then go into iTunes and play another station. If you like it, then click "Favorites" again, and press "Add".

When you have several stations added, the "Next" and "Previous" buttons will now let you move between them.

Sim/Server Lag

If you get anything involving a bunch of question marks: "???", this is due to server lag in SL. You can just close the dialog and try again -- unfortunately this is a problem with lag in your Sim and cannot be corrected in the radio (it is likely either your Internect connection is laggy, or there are too many scripts running in your Sim). The ??? occurs when the server makes a query to one of SL's internal databases and does not get a response.