• Windows 95 or Windows NT
• A 486/66 or faster
• A minimum connection of 28.8K to the Internet

"Buy This CD" Button: Click when you hear a song you like. Your browser will direct you to an on-line store with that album in your shopping cart. TheDJ Logo: This will pulse when the player is contacting TheDJ server. Clicking the logo will hide the tool bar. Menu: Access to the Menu ?: Read this help file Stop: Stop the music Artist, Song, Album: Information about the music Rate: Rate This Song. When you hear a song you like or dislike, tell TheDJ's about it. Your input effects what music is played. Volume: Adjust knob to change the volume Banner: Click here to check out our sponsors Scan: When button is pressed, the player rotates through the pre-set channels. Once a song if finished, a song on the next pre-set channel is played. Radio Buttons: Choose a channel to hear the music. Placing your pointer over the channel displays the channel description. Placing your pointer over the channel playing displays the next two artists coming up. More: Press this button to expand the radio to see all available music channels on TheDJ Status Bar: Information and instructions are displayed here Quality Bar: Displays information about your network connection to TheDJ server. All green is good. If you see much red, then please read the Trouble-Shooting guide below.

Channels: Pre-set 10 of your favorite channels to be on the top rows of TheDJ Player. Options: You can choose for TheDJ Player to be 'Always on Top'. Also, when TheDJ Player is Stopped, you can update: Your RealAudio preferences. Choose Mono - This option uses less bandwidth (16K) Choose Stereo - This option allows for stereo quality music (20K) Proxies: Update this proxy if you are behind a firewall. The proxy data should look something like the following: gatekeeper.thedj.com:80 Browser: Enter the location of your WWW browser executable.

You must be logged on to the Internet with at least a 28.8k connection when you're using TheDJ Player. You might be behind a firewall. If so, then you'll need to update the proxies for TheDJ Player. Go within the Menu and choose the Proxies tab. Update the proxy here. If you're not sure what your proxy is, you can check within your Network Preferences for your internet browser. Go to the Options tab and choose the RealAudio preferences. Go to Proxy tab. Update the RealAudio proxy. Click OK and try listening to the music. If you're still having problems, try going within the RealAudio Preferences again. Choose Transport. Choose 'Use specified transports'. Click the 'Specify transports' button. Choose 'Attempt to use TCP for all content'. Click OK and try the music again.

TheDJ server is currently located in the Bay Area of California. Sometimes the Internet becomes very crowded in Silicon Valley. If you have been experiencing poor music quality, and in particular, garbled sound, the problem is probably packet loss. You can monitor the Quality Bar at the bottom of TheDJ Player, and if you see Red...you're losing packets. Try listening to the music in mono (this option uses less bandwidth). Press Stop on TheDJ Player. Press Menu. Options Tab. Click Mono. Click OK, and try listening to the Music. If you have a faster connection than 28.8k, you can try using the TCP option within RealAudio preferences. Press Stop on TheDJ Player. Press Menu. Options Tab. Click RealAudio Options. Choose Transport. Choose 'Use specified transports'. Click the 'Specify transports' button. Choose 'Attempt to use TCP for all content'. Click OK and try the music again. Sometimes the quality is better. Try listening to the music at different times during the day.