• fill out your login and password in the upper frame

• click on the upper frame's "station" tabs to login (you will go to the station area at the same time...)

  NOTE: filling out your login info and clicking on any of the tabs WILL LOG/RE-LOG YOU IN!!!

• follow the steps on the going ON/OFF AIR verifying page.

  • mark the ON AIR radio button

  • EITHER pick an existing show OR pick some genres and enter a comment for your show

  • make sure YOU ARE AT YOUR STATION DOING THE RADIO SHOW!!!

  • push the "Go for it!" button.

• if you find yourself ON AIR and you are not supposed to be, GO OFF AIR IMMEDIATELY by pushing the "Log Off" button - you might have just logged off the DJ who was ON AIR, in which case (s)he will have to go ON AIR again after they realize that someone just "screwed" them...

• fill out your login and password in the upper frame (again!)

• click on the upper frame's "station" tabs to re-login (you will go back to the station area at the same time...)

  NOTE: filling out your login info and clicking on any of the tabs WILL LOG/RE-LOG YOU IN!!!

• follow the steps on the going ON/OFF AIR verifying page.

• mark the ON or OFF AIR radio button, depending on what you want to do

• push the "Go for it!" button.

• if you find yourself ON AIR and you are not supposed to be, GO OFF AIR IMMEDIATELY by pushing the "Log Off" button - you might have just logged off the DJ who was ON AIR, in which case (s)he will have to go ON AIR again after they realize that someone just "screwed" them...

• make sure you are ON AIR and you are on the ON AIR page.

• click on the first letter of the band you want to play under "PICK LETTER FOR NEXT BAND".

• after the page refreshes, mark the band you are playing OR enter a new band name

• you may fill out some optional fields as well if you have time...

• click on the "Go for it!" button on the bottom of the page

if you feel lonely, you can also send a listener request to yourself...

NOTE: add bands that have the word "the" in their name as "the bandname" - the system will automatically conver this to "BANDNAME, THE" so that the name will show up under the letter "B", not under "T" ...

NOTE: your previous song will be appended to the "5 MOST RECENT IN PLAYLIST:" you can see below the requests section...

you can make up missed songs by quickly entering them one after the other while you are ON AIR until you are current with your playlist.  or just wait till your show is over, then insert the missed songs by updating your past playlist and inserting the missed songs.

• if you have entered all your playlist songs but with the WRONG TIMES, then click on the "update" link of the rows and correct the playtimes USING THE SAME TIME FORMAT YOU SEE! ("5/20/00 4:09:36 PM")

• if you are missing a chunk of playlist items, click on the "insert after this" link on the row AFTER WHICH you want to insert a new playlist item.  fill out the item details and make sure you ADJUST THE PLAYTIMES to reflect what you have been playing when.

NOTE: the playtime you see on the insert new playlist item page under "playtime" is set to 10 SECONDS AFTER the playtime of the song you clicked on to insert after, so that the sequence of songs is preserved.  you are adjusting so it is not one song after the other with 10 seconds between but with realistic times...

• make sure you know your exact start and end time of your show that DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH OTHER DJs PLAYTIMES by checking against the public past playlists page of your station on that day

• then on your update past playlist page click on ANY of your past playlist item's "insert after this" link on ANY date (click on ANY date link where you have playlist items if you don't see items on your most recent list)

• start with entering THE FIRST SONG OF YOUR SHOW you are missing

• after you filled out the item details, make sure you ADJUST THE PLAYTIME OF YOUR FIRST SONG TO the time you were actually STARTING YOUR SHOW at your station (make sure you won't conflict with the next and previous DJs playlists...)

• after you added your first song of your missed show, go to the date of your missed show (if there was no link for it so far, now there will be one...)

• keep inserting playlist items AND ADJUSTING THEIR PLAYTIMES, keping the "5/20/00 4:09:36 PM" format by clicking on the "insert after this" link of your latest song

you can do this while ON AIR, or you can do it after your live show from the OFF AIR functionality page by clicking on the "manage your past playlists" link.

• copy the "playtime" column of the playlist item you want to change - this is needed to insert the new item with the same time!

• delete the playlist item by clicking on the "delete" link of the row under the "action" column. - the page will refresh without the column you deleted

• click on the "insert after this" link of the row that WAS BELOW THE ROW YOU JUST DELETED, the song after which you will insert your replacement item - you will go to the "insert new playlist item" page

• click on the first letter of the band you want to insert as a replacement - you will be asked to pick an existing band starting with that letter or create a new band in the system

• paste the copied playtime you copied in the first step to the "playtime" column - you are replacing the playtime (that is set to 10 seconds after where you clicked to insert a new playlist item) with the original playtime of the item you are replacing

• after you click the "insert" button, your old playlist item with the wrong band will be replaced with the new band you just inserted with the same playtime

NOTE: if listeners clicked to "Add current band to my favorits!" button on the station detail page WHILE YOU WERE PLAYING YOUR SONG ON AIR, then after you replaced the band in the playlist item, they will have the "wrong band" in their favorits collection.  this is an "Oh Well" side effect...  what you can do is to enter the correct bands in your playlists so you don't send your listeners to the "wrong concert" to check out...

NOTE: if you don't change the "playtime", it will update with the old value it had before...