The CastanetTM Tuner

Quick Start

The Castanet tuner is the receiver component of the Castanet software distribution system. A tuner is a small Java applications that does two main things:

The tuner's user interface has three menus and five tabbed pages; clicking a tab opens a page. The most frequently used pages are Listing and Channels.

Use the Listing page to see the channels served by a transmitter.

Use the Channels page to manipulate and monitor subscribed channels. The channels are arranged by transmitter in a collapsible/expandable outline format. The Status column distinguishes subscribed channels (approximate size on disk or "running"), unsubscribed channels (hyphen), channels that are being downloaded ("receiving"), and channels that were not received successfully ("error").

Other important tuner operations:

 


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