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Main steps for using CosmoNote
CosmoNote is an evolving software with powerful characteristics and the COSMOS team is working constantly to make it better. The best way to get the most out of CosmoNote is to get to know how it works. This lesson gives you an overview of how to interact with the site and use the tools at your disposal.
All your interactions with the site happen in one of two modes:
Lets you hear the music and use some keyboard shortcuts to annotate. To enter this mode you click the Play button or hit the space bar. To exit this mode you click the Stop button or hit the Escape (Esc) key.
The music is stopped and your mouse is your main annotation tool. You enter this mode by clicking on any of the annotation tools (described below) or by exiting the Play mode.
The main screen you see in CosmoNote contains all you need to listen and annotate musical structures. These are its main components:
The upper part of the screen tells you details about the current piece, whether there are more pieces to listen to and lets you log out or deactivate your account.
Collection navigation:
A collection is a group of pieces you can annotate. They appear in a dropdown list and you can move through them using the arrows.
Piece information: For each piece, the site will display: Composer, performer, title. This can be disabled for specific studies.
Account management: On the top right corner you can use these buttons to disable your account (left) or just log out (right)
These buttons belong to the Play mode and they let you control what you hear. Many of these will be familiar from any musical player you've encountered before.
Play/Pause: Click or press space to play, pause or unpause the audio reproduction. A green playback head that follows the audio will appear.
Boundary sound: Press this button to enable or disable a sound that's played at the time you placed a boundary (more on this later).
Previous/next annotation: Click to move the playhead to the next boundary annotation.
Stop: Resets the position of the playhead to the start, stops the reproduction and exits Play mode.