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General
Your Profile
- What are 'Featured Profiles'?
- Featured profiles are profiles we'd like to draw your attention to; from upcoming bands we think are really talented, to people who promote Trig, and everyone in between.
- I chose a Music profile by mistake, how do I change it to a People profile?
- Humans make mistakes, and that's a fact. At present, the only way you can revert to a People profile is by contacting Customer Service
- What's this new Home tab for?
- The 'Home' tab is where you land after logging in, or when clicking 'My home'. This tab is only visible for you and contains everything that you need to know about your life on trig.
- What is my profile activity feed?
- This is a constant feed of what is happening on your profile. If someone trigged a picture in your gallery, added your song to their player, or perhaps a sent you a friend request, you'll see it all on your feed. You can also decide what you want in your feed. Do this by clicking on 'View all your profile activities', and then checking which info you want.
- What are Statistics for Musicians?
- Plans on releasing a single or organising a tour? Don't know which song or where to go? This impressive new feature will help you with just that! You can get a quick view on the hot-spot map of whether your stuff is hot or not. By clicking the map you'll get to see specific info on exactly where, what and how much is happening! No more guestimating; we'll show you how it is.
Your Friends
- How do I change/choose my featured friends?
- Click your Friends tab, find the friend you want to display on your profile page, and then drag them into the Featured Friends category. You can only display 8 friends.
- How do I categorize my friends?
- Click your Friends tab, create new categories for your friends, and then simply drag your friends onto the categories in the sidebar.
Your Gallery
- How do I create gallery albums?
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- When you upload your images, there's an option to 'Move image to' an album, or create one. Either select an existing album, or enter a name for the album you want to create.
- If the images are already uploaded, click the Edit button on the image that you want to add to an album. There's an option to 'Move image to' an album, or create one. Either select an existing album, or enter a name for the album you want to create.
Gallery Slideshow
- What is a slideshow?
- A slideshow is a set of your gallery images put together in a nifty widget for your Trig fans and friends. Want to show off the pictures from your party last weekend? Put them in a slideshow and embed it in Trig comment pages, or anywhere you want.
- How do I create a slideshow?
- Click the 'Create slideshow' button on your gallery page. You're able to create a slide show from an entire album, images with a specific tag (eg. images tagged with 'Liverpool'), your top trigged images, or your latest uploaded images.
- How do i embed my slideshow on Trig and other sites?
- When you've added the images you want to your slideshow just click 'Generate URL'. Doing this will present you with a snippet of code which you can paste into the comment section on Trig or other sites. Easy.
Groups
- What are groups?
- Groups on Trig are a collection of people who are all interested in the same thing. Inside a group you'll find a discussion forum and a gallery, which you can contribute to if you're a member of that group.
- How do I join a group?
- Head to the groups page, choose the group you want to join, and then click on the Join Group button.
- How do I start a group?
- Click the 'Create a new group' button on the main groups page and fill in the form.
- How do I leave a group?
- Visit the group that you want to leave, and then click on the Leave Group button.
- How do I add my images to groups?
- Once you are a member of a group, you can click the Share button in the detailed view of an image to share it to that group by selecting it from the menu. To share an album, edit the album and select the group you want to share it to.
- Are the forums in groups different?
- The only difference is that the group administrates the forum themselves.
- How do groups handle privacy issues?
- Images added to a Group take on the privacy settings of that Group - so, if the group is closed, only the members can see it.
- How do I promote my group?
- On your groups page, you'll see there's a handy button with Promote written on it. Clicking that will give you the correct HTML code to paste onto other sites.
Events
- What are events?
- The Events section is your calendar for showing what you're up to; maybe you're a band going on tour, you're having a party, or you're an artist who wants to promote an exhibition. Other users can add themselves as attendees to the event and then comment on it. Go to the Global events page and find something to do today, or go to your events tab and create an event to invite your friends to.
- How do I create an event?
- Just click the link directly under your Events tab. Create Tour is a step-by-step guide to creating an event that spans over more dates, cities & venues than just a single one. Create Event is more suited to single events like a club, birthday party or a night out on town with your potential trig friends.
- How do I show that I'm attending an event?
- Go to the global events page and search for an event that you'd like to attend, click the 'Add to calendar' button and you're now marked as attending! Your profile pic will then be shown under 'triggers going'. You can, of course, add events wherever you find them. Don't forget to have your say on the comment section of the event to spark up a discussion around what's happening.
'WYSIWYG' Text Editor
- How do I add images to my biography/blog posts?
- Click the Link / Embed tab on the text editor toolbar, and then click the Picture button on the toolbar. Paste your image URL into the text field. Click 'accept'.
- How do i add video to my biography/blog posts?
- Click the Link / Embed tab on the text editor toolbar, and then click the Movie button on the toolbar. Paste your video URL into the text field. Click 'accept'.
- How do I add a link to a site?
- Highlight the text you want to link. Click the Link / Embed tab on the text editor toolbar, and then click the Link button on the toolbar. Paste your site URL into the text field. Click 'accept'.
- How do I add a linked email address?
- Highlight the text you want to link. Click the Link / Embed tab on the text editor toolbar, and then click the Email button on the toolbar. Paste your email address into the text field. Click 'accept'.
Media Player
- I'd like music playing on my People profile. How do i do that?
- You can only play music from bands who have a Trig profile, so once you've found a band you like - use the Music Browse page - click the + on their music player, or individual songs, to add their song(s) to your playlist.
- I've uploaded music to my player, but I can't see it on my Music profile. How do i do that?
- From your media page, click the + on your individual songs to add your song(s) to your playlist.
- Customer Service says I can't upload copyrighted music to my profile but other users have copyrighted music on their profile!?
- If a musician uploads their own music to their profile, they own the copyright and aren't breaking any copyright laws. If you want to add that music from their page, then go right ahead. That's how this thing works.
- How do I delete a song from the Media section?
- From your media page, click on the album icon which contains the song, and then on the song name. In the Song menu, you can find a Delete Song button.
- I've uploaded music to my player, but it's slow and/or sounds all funny. What's up with that?
- Sounds like your media files contain variable bitrate encoding, which Flash doesn't handle very well. The file must have a frequency of 44.1 kHz (or multiple of 11.025 kHz) and be encoded with constant bit rate.
Trig Radio
- How do I start Trig Radio?
- Click the 'pop-up' link from a user's player and you've got Trig Radio right there.
- What will I be able to listen to?
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- Trig Radio has the following Predefined Stations:
- Live'n'direct - Listen to the latest uploaded music
- Hot Music - Listen to the music that the community thinks is hot during the last week
- If user is logged in you also get these stations:
- My player
- My trigged songs
- Listen by Genre: Music from each genre is collected by using the artist's chosen genre in their biography, and by which genre the mp3 has been categorised as.
- Listen by Member: Type in a username and listen to that user's playlist or trigged songs.
- Listen by Tag: Click a tag or type in your own query to listen to all songs tagged that way. You can specify multiple tags by separating them with spaces and quoting 'multiple word phrases': rock 'heavy metal' jazz
- Trig Radio has the following Predefined Stations:
- Song Suggestions
- If you have javascript enabled 'similar artists' will be displayed under the player if any found.
Your Tags
- What's this tagging stuff about?
- Tags are a smart way to make everything you do searchable for you, your friends, and other users here on trig. For example, create a blog and post it with the tag 'party'. Later, when you upload images, videos, and other forms of documentation of your party, you can tag them with 'party' as well. That way, you and everyone else will find your blog, images and other stuff related to the tag 'party'. You can also have a look at the tag cloud to see your main themes summed up in a nice, graphical way.
Miscellaneous Debris
- What can I do if there's no answer to my question in the FAQ?
- Try looking through the help section. If you can't find the answer to your question there either, please contact us at Customer Service.
Compatibility Test
- Do I have JavaScript?
- No, JavaScript is not working for you right now.
- Do I have Flash installed?
- Check the Adobe Flash Player site to find out!
- Do I have cookies enabled?
- It appears cookies are diasbled in your browser. For a better experience on trig.com you should enable them
- Which browser do I have?
- CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
About Trig
- What is Trig?
- Originality. Democracy. Revolution. This is how we'd like to sum up what Trig means to us. But that's just a fancy way of saying that we want Trig to be a platform, centered around you. We don't believe in mass culture, we think all of us have hopes and dreams and our vision is simple: Your dreams, our tools. With cutting edge design and software, we see Trig as a new community for anyone who ever had a dream, and all the people who go their own way. We want to give you the platform you need, and we want that platform to adapt to you, not the other way around.
- What makes Trig exciting?
The best guides to Trig will always be the members themselves. That's why anything on Trig – images, blog posts, profiles – can be'trigged' by clicking the trig button.
It's very straightforward: trigging something is like giving it your vote. You basically tell the rest of us you like it. The most trigged things will then make it to the top lists of blogs, profiles, and so on. In addition, everyone will have an overall count of how many times her or his stuff has been trigged.
The ranking on the lists will also be divided into categories like 'Today' and 'All-time'. That way, it's easy to find both all-time favourites and see what's popular right now.
- What can I do on Trig?
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Communities thrive on networking. The first step of networking is finding others to network with. Trig has a good browse page, where you can add more browse categories if you think any of them are important. It's an easy way to find exactly what, or who, you are looking for.
Since you can put tags on almost anything on Trig, we also made it possible to find friends, post blogs and images, by tags. It makes browsing Trig a little more creative, since you can look for people (and other things) who have been tagged for example 'stylish' or 'hilarious'.
The next step is to actually do the networking. Besides sending messages, comments and friend requests, you can chat with people directly with the inbuilt instant messenger.
Trig also makes it possible to make let your personality show. Here are a couple of things you could start with:
- Skins: You should decide what your profile looks like. By changing profile skin, your profile will look original and new.
- Blog: Creating your own blog is easy. Your thoughts are as important as anyone else's, so start posting.
- Gallery: Fill your gallery with images. Private ones for your close friends, public images for the rest of us.
- What does it cost to be a member?
- Trig is free for all, so long as you're not using it for commercial purposes.
- How do I join Trig?
- On the front page you can sign up by clicking the 'sign up' button. Once you've signed up, you can also invite all your friends!
- Where can I find the privacy policy?
- It is very important to us that our members feel safe and secure and we have a deep respect for everyone's privacy. If you want to know more about this, you can read our privacy policy at the bottom of every page, this too.
- Do you keep my private information confidential?
- Please read the privacy policy at the bottom of this (and every other) page. You should be able to find all your answers there, but just in case you still have questions, please contact us at Customer Service.
- What about spam?
- We respect your privacy and will never spam you or sell your email address to third parties. Please read more in the privacy policy at the bottom of this page.