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4. Track Properties

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The chapter describes how to edit track properties.

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This window can be invoked from any of the four tabs by + selecting one or more tracks and then either selecting Edit > + Track Properties or via the right-click pop-up menu.

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4.1 Track Name Parts

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The first three fields for each track are the parts of its name: + the artist, album and title. These control what appear in the + similarly named columns in the queue and other tabs. If they are + wrong then you can edit them here to correct them.

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The double-headed arrow at the right of each field will copy the + current field value to all the other tracks in the window. For + instance if an album name is mis-spelled or wrong then you could + follow the following procedure to correct it for all its + tracks:

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  1. In the Choose tab, select all the tracks in the album.
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  2. Select Edit > Track Properties to bring up the track + properties window.
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  3. Edit the album name in the first track.
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  4. Click the arrow button to the right of the corrected version.
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  5. Click the OK button.
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4.2 Tags

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Each track has an associated collection of tags. These can used + when searching for tracks in the Choose tab or to control + which tracks are picked at random.

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To add tags to a track enter the tags you want to apply to it in + the Tags field, separated by commas. Tags cannot contain + commas and are compared without regard to whitespace.

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To search by tag, prefix it with tag: in the search box.

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To control how tracks are picked at random, select Control > + Global Preferences. If Required Tags contains a + comma-separated list of tags then only tracks with at least one of + the listed tags will be picked at random. Similarly + if Prohibited Tags contains a comma-separated list of tags + then no track with any of the listed tags will be picked at + random.

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4.3 Track Weight

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Every track has an associated weight. A higher weight makes the + track more likely to be picked at random and lower weight makes it + less likely to be picked at random. (In the simplest case the + probability that it will be picked is equal to its weight divided + by the total weight of all tracks, although there are a number of + other factors that modify this.)

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If no weight has been explicitly set then the track gets a + default weight of 90,000.

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One way to prevent a track being picked at random would be to + set its weight to zero, but in fact there is a box you can untick + to suppress random selection of tracks too.

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