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Using Trig
Your Music
Some sites let you upload whatever the hell you like, and that's fine, but we see things differently. There's a lot of great talent here on Trig - some known, some unknown - and we want to share that talent with you. When you find something that you like, you can add a music player to your People Profile.
You can find Music Profiles a few ways:
- Live'n'Direct.
- Use the Music Browse feature.
- Click through random People Profiles to check out what other Trig users are playing.
Add Music
Which profile type you have will determine how you go about adding music to your player.
People Profile
Once you've found some stuff you like, you can add it to your Profile. To do this, either click the + on song you want to add on the Music Profile's music player…
…or from their Media tab, which is described below.
Music Profile
Once you've uploaded your songs, you then have to add them to your music player. Just click the + next to the songs you want to add.
Share Your Player
Now that you've added a load of cool tunes to your player, you have the option to embed it on other pages. Just click the share button…
…and then use the codes we give you for easily embedding the player into other sites.
Uploading Music (Music Profiles ONLY)
Trig's Music profiles are for musicians to upload their own music, recorded by themselves. Trig's Music profiles are not for fans to upload their favourite bands' music, as is the case over at certain other sites. Like the warning says:
Trig.com does not endorse or tolerate actions or activities that violate the owner’s intellectual property rights. You may not display or publish, or in any other way modify, post, distribute, or reproduce any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information that does not belong to you without the prior written consent of the owner. We are entitled to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who violates the copyright of others.
Editing Song Information (Music Profiles ONLY)
The easiest way to organize your music files is by making sure they have all of the correct information before you upload them. You can do this with an application such as iTunes. Trig will then sort your music into albums, corresponding with the information found in the ID3 tags. If you don't have this information in place, you can click the Edit Song button and fill all the information needed.
Trig Radio
Like we said, there’s a lot of talent here at Trig, so we’ve bundled it all up for you as Trig Radio. To fire it up, click the “pop-up” link from a user’s player.
What will you be able to listen to?
- 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.
- 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.
- If you have javascript enabled “similar artists” will be displayed under the player if any found.