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| 27 | <h1>4. Track Properties</h1> |
| 28 | |
| 29 | <p>The chapter describes how to edit track properties.</p> |
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| 31 | <p class=image><img src="track-properties.png"></p> |
| 32 | |
| 33 | <p>This window can be invoked from any of the four tabs by |
| 34 | selecting one or more tracks and then either selecting <b>Edit > |
| 35 | Track Properties</b> or via the right-click pop-up menu.</p> |
| 36 | |
| 37 | <h2><a name=names>4.1 Track Name Parts</a></h2> |
| 38 | |
| 39 | <p>The first three fields for each track are the parts of its name: |
| 40 | the artist, album and title. These control what appear in the |
| 41 | similarly named columns in the queue and other tabs. If they are |
| 42 | wrong then you can edit them here to correct them.</p> |
| 43 | |
| 44 | <p>The double-headed arrow at the right of each field will copy the |
| 45 | current field value to all the other tracks in the window. For |
| 46 | instance if an album name is mis-spelled or wrong then you could |
| 47 | follow the following procedure to correct it for all its |
| 48 | tracks:</p> |
| 49 | |
| 50 | <ol> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | <li>In the <b>Choose</b> tab, select all the tracks in the album.</li> |
| 53 | |
| 54 | <li>Select <b>Edit > Track Properties</b> to bring up the track |
| 55 | properties window.</li> |
| 56 | |
| 57 | <li>Edit the album name in the first track.</li> |
| 58 | |
| 59 | <li>Click the arrow button to the right of the corrected version.</li> |
| 60 | |
| 61 | <li>Click the <b>OK</b> button.</li> |
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| 63 | </ol> |
| 64 | |
| 65 | <h2><a name=tags>4.2 Tags</a></h2> |
| 66 | |
| 67 | <p>Each track has an associated collection of tags. These can used |
| 68 | when searching for tracks in the <b>Choose</b> tab or to control |
| 69 | which tracks are picked at random.</p> |
| 70 | |
| 71 | <p>To add tags to a track enter the tags you want to apply to it in |
| 72 | the <b>Tags</b> field, separated by commas. Tags cannot contain |
| 73 | commas and are compared without regard to whitespace.</p> |
| 74 | |
| 75 | <p>To search by tag, prefix it with <tt>tag:</tt> in the search box.</p> |
| 76 | |
| 77 | <p>To control how tracks are picked at random, select <b>Control > |
| 78 | Global Preferences</b>. If <b>Required Tags</b> contains a |
| 79 | comma-separated list of tags then only tracks with at least one of |
| 80 | the listed tags will be picked at random. Similarly |
| 81 | if <b>Prohibited Tags</b> contains a comma-separated list of tags |
| 82 | then no track with any of the listed tags will be picked at |
| 83 | random.</p> |
| 84 | |
| 85 | <h2><a name=weight>4.3 Track Weight</a></h2> |
| 86 | |
| 87 | <p>Every track has an associated weight. A higher weight makes the |
| 88 | track more likely to be picked at random and lower weight makes it |
| 89 | less likely to be picked at random. (In the simplest case the |
| 90 | probability that it will be picked is equal to its weight divided |
| 91 | by the total weight of all tracks, although there are a number of |
| 92 | other factors that modify this.)</p> |
| 93 | |
| 94 | <p>If no weight has been explicitly set then the track gets a |
| 95 | default weight of 90,000.</p> |
| 96 | |
| 97 | <p>One way to prevent a track being picked at random would be to |
| 98 | set its weight to zero, but in fact there is a box you can untick |
| 99 | to suppress random selection of tracks too.</p> |
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