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Tutorial - Section 1: Introduction / What is fluctu8 / How to use fluctu8

Fluctu8 is a web based aggregator. The goal of fluctu8 is to allow users to keep up to date with a range of different audio sources, be it music or talk radio, world wide.

Fluctu8 maintains a list of content sources and periodically checks the sources for new sound file releases / content. It publishes new sound files / content from the sources, and information about the sources themselves through the fluctu8 interface and presents this information to site users.

Fluctu8 is somewhat moderated for quality and direction. This prevents the site from filling up with information irrelevant to the interests of site users. We encourage people to submit new sources!

Fluctu8 currently supports RSS v2.0, Atom v1.0 and Atom v0.3 containing ogg, flac, or mp3 files. Please see the RSS and Atom cast sections for more specifications and information.

To effectively use fluctu8, users must get comfortable with the terms, defined as follows:

Sources - A content data source.

Sound Files - A sound file and a collection of data about that file.

Each source contains one or more sound files. Each source, and thus all the sources respective sound files are categorized. Upon browsing the sound file categories, you are actually browsing a list of all sources newest sound files, categorized for your convenience! You can also browse the list of sources by category as well.

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