3.1 The main window

With the main window you are able to control and watch the current play-process.
The main window has pop-up help. Try holding the mousepointer over an object. The main window consists of standard control-buttons and is able to include the following:
NOTE: Depends on Layoutsettings.

TAG-display

• This is the upper information-string in the main window.
  
• It displays the information about the chosen TAG-type, which you can choose with the TAG-chooser.
  If the length of the information is to large to fit the length of the information-string, the information will be scrolled from left to right.

TAG-chooser

• This is the upper left all-grey button.
  
• Click and hold the left mousebutton while the mousepointer is above this, and a pop-up menu will appear.
  Now, while still holding down the left mousebutton, you can select one of the TAG-types that the TAG-display will display.
  NOTE: If the TAG-type "Cyclic Info" is chosen, then all the different TAG-types will be cycled in the TAG-display.

Volume adjustment

• This is the right-most up-down slider.
  
• Click and hold the left mousebutton while the mousepointer is above this. Dragging the knob up or down will result in a realtime volume-adjustment.
  Dragging the knob up will turn the volume up, as dragging it down will turn the volume down.

Position bar

• This left-right slider shows you the current position of the file currently playing. It is located to the left, and in the middle, vertically.
  
• It moves from the left to the right, as the file is playing.
  If you want to skip in the file currently playing, then use the mousepointer to drag the knob left or right, as described in the "Volume adjust"-section.

Buffer-display

• Just beneath the position bar, sits the buffer-display.
  
• This gives a visual display of the current amount of decoded audiodata in the buffer.
  The colour of the buffer-display changes depending on the amount of decoded audiodata in the buffer.
  Min. = Red, Med. = Yellow, Max. = Green

Timer

• The timer is located to the right of both the buffer-display and the position bar.
  
• This shows the position, in seconds, of the current song.

3.2 The playlist

The playlist has pop-up help. Try holding the mousepointer over an object. The playlist consists of the following elements:

Up-down arrows

• These two arrows moves the songselector/songselection up or down respectively.
  

The other buttons

• Clear will clear the contents of the playlist.
  
• Insert will open a filerequester in which you can choose which songs to add to the playlist.
  
• Remove will remove the currently selected song from the playlist.
  
• Save ss... will save the current playlist to a file.
  
• Open... will load a saved playlist from a file.
  

3.3 The settings window

The settings window, and it's subgroups, has pop-up help. Try holding the mousepointer over an object.
The settings window has 3 global buttons:

• Save will save the current settings, and close the settings window.
  
• Use will use the current settings, and close the settings window.
  
• Cancel will undo changes (If any), and close the settings window.
  

3.31 Misc

• 3.311 Options - Misc. options.
  
  
  
  • Play at startup - Instantly start playing from the default playlist on startup.
    
  • Random play - Random picking of songs in the playlist.
    
  • Repeat list - When end of playlist is reached, then start over.
    
  • Add recursive - Add songs recursively to the playlist.
    
  • Check valid - Check if songs are valid before adding them to the playlist.
    
  
  
• 3.312 Paths - Path selections.
  
  
  
  • Default - Playlist to load on startup.
    
  • Playlist path - Default path for loading and saving of playlists.
    
  • Song path - Default song path.
    
  
  
• 3.313 Buffer - Buffer settings.
  
  
  
  • Audio buffer - Audio buffer, eh ;-).
    
  • Audio buffer used, before playing - Amount of audio buffer to fill before playing starts.
    
  • File IO buffer - File I/O buffer.
    
  
  
• 3.314 Priority - Priority settings.
  
  
  
  • GUI - GUI priority, eg. the TAG-display's scrolling will benefit/suffer from this setting.
    
  • Decoder - Decoding process priority. It is recommended setting this lower than the Player's priority.
    
  • Player - Playing process priority. It is recommended setting this above the Decoder's priority
    
  
  
• 3.315 Layout - Layout settings.
  
  
  
  • Big (all controls) - This layout is the default setting, showing the full main GUI with TAG-display, buffer visualization and so on.
    
  • Small - Using this option will remove all fancy stuff from the main GUI, and only leave the control-buttons on screen.
    
  • TAG background - Pick an image for display in the TAG-display's background. This option was the first step made in direction of full 'skins' support (shhhhh! ;-)).
    

3.32 Hotkeys

• Popup - Hotkey for Pop-up help.
  
• Rewind - Select previous song from playlist.
  
• Play - Play song, which is current selected in playlist.
  
• Forward - Select next song from playlist.
  
• Stop - Stop song, which is currently playing.
  
• Pause - Pause song, which is current playing.
  

3.33 Decode

Layer2- and Layer3-settings are individual, though they are setup exactly the same way.

• Mono - Settings for songs in Mono.
  Quality - Output quality.
  Freq. division - Frequency division. If set to 1, songs will be played in full quality.
  
  
• Stereo - Settings for songs in Stereo.
  Quality - Output quality.
  Freq. division - Frequency division. If set to 1, songs will be played in full quality.
  Force mono - Force mono-decoding of songs in stereo. Very useful for freeing up some cpu-power.
  

3.34 AHI

• AHI mode - Select AHI-mode for output.
  
• Mixing frequency - Output frequency.
  
• Maximum frequency - Only play songs which are encoded below or at this frequency.
  

3.35 Plugins

This setting sub-window consists of a listview of plugins and the following controls:

• Prefs - Show current plugin's seperate prefs-window, if any.
  
• Show - If the currently selected plugin has some kind of visualization, this will activate it.
  
• Hide - If the currently selected plugin has some kind of visualization, this will hide it.
  
• About - Show current plugin's seperate about-window, if any.
  
• Load - Load plugin into TMLG, and list it in the plugin-listview.
  
• Remove - Unload selected plugin, and remove it from the plugin-listview.