User Manual for CHIMMP
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Before you ever talk to CHIMMP
Before you can ever talk to CHIMMP, you need to get one of CHIMMP's
administrators to add you as a user. They will need to know your screenname
if you're connecting under AIM or your full screenname and server name
if you're connecting with Jabber. (At this point these are the only supported
protocols.)
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Help
If you forget everything else on this
page, remember help. This gives you a list of commands
that CHIMMP understands. You can ask for help on any of these commands. That
will give you a less verbose description than here, but it covers ALL commands.
If you get really stuck or you think CHIMMP is crashing, you
can give the command call administrator "insert
your text here" which will send an instant message with the
text insert your text here to any CHIMMP administrators
currently logged in.
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Search
Typing search for "yellow" searches for all occurences
of the word yellow searches for songs by title, artist, genre,
and album.
search results for "submarine beatles" searches
within your previous search for all songs which have the word
submarine and the word beatles in them.
Do NOT use quotes, apostrophes or digits. The above example searches in
all approved songs on the database. If you want to restrict your search to
a particular playlist, the proper syntax is search for "stuff to search
for" in "playlist to search in".
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Playlists
You can create your own playlists on CHIMMP. This is done by sending
the command create playlist "demo playlist". This would create
a playlist with the name demo playlist. You can put whatever
name you want between the quotes, so long as it does NOT contain apostrophes,
quotes, or numbers.
Once you have created a playlist, you can delete it by sending the
message delete playlist "demo playlist". Obviously, if
you want to delete a different playlist, you put that playlist name in
instead of demo playlist.
However, once you've created a playlist, you'd probably rather
add songs to it than delete it. To do this, you need to first run a search.
(see above) Once you have a search which includes the song you want to
add to your playlist, you can then say store n to "demo playlist"
, where n is the number of the song in the search list.
The opposing command is delete n where n is the number
of the song in the playlist. (You need to view the playlist before deleting
something from it.)
You may also list a playlist once it has been created with something
like view playlist "demo playlist" (or whatever you called
your playlist). If you want to see one of someone else's playlists, you
send the command view playlist "playlist name" of "user name"
where playlist name and user name are the
name of the playlist you want to see and the user who created it.
You can move songs within your playlist with the command move
n up m where n is the current position of the song
you want to move and m is the number of places you want to move it.
up can be replaced with down. You cannot modify other
users' playlists.
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Playing Songs
To add a song to the global playlist, it must be in your last list (either
a search or a view playlist). Send the command submit n
where n is the number of the song you want to add to the global
playlist. However, your song will not be played unless an admin has started
playback and there are no songs ahead of it in the list. You can move your
song further up in the queue, but it will cost you points. (see discussion
of points below) The syntax for this command is move in global
n up m.n is the current position of the song,
and m is the number of places for the song to be moved. (
up may be replaced with down.) The cost of a move is
proportional to m
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Points
Everyone gets one point per hour. You cannot accumulate more than 24 points.
They don't expire, they just stay at 24. When you move a song or change the
volume, it costs points. This is not intended to limit use. It is simply intended
to keep people from getting into wars over what is played and how loud it
is played.
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Song Info
You can search for songs by title, album, artist, and genre. You can also
view these characteristics for any song by giving the command view
info . This gives you the info for the currently playing song. If
you specify a number after view info, it will give you the
info for that song from your last list (search or playlist).