Using the "." button next to Keywords will populate it with values from the last.fm tag cloud. Quality, Tempo, Mood and Occasion have lists of values you can choose from, or you can enter your own. This tab contains supplementary information about the track, including up to 16 Custom Tags of your choice. Just copy and paste this character in place of the semicolon: ꓼ Name Tip: It's rare, but if you have an artist with a semicolon in the name, you can use a Lisu tone character instead, to keep the the tag from being split. If you need to change your tags to match last.fm but don't want to change your official Artist tag, you can use the Display Artist for last.fm and keep your preferred Artist tag in the multiple artist splitter. Tip: When scrobbling to last.fm, MusicBee uses the Display Artist value. Tip: To add or remove a specific value from a multi-value field on several tracks where there are differing values (so that using the Tag Editor would cause the differing values to be lost), you can use the Tag Inspector. The genre splitter is also unique in that it has a "Suggested Genres" button, which will show you some of the top genres for that track from last.fm and let you choose to apply them. See Special Fields for how to use split artist values in columns, templates, and so on. The artist splitter further allows you to choose a role for the artists listed and adjusts the tags accordingly: Artist, Performer, Guest Artist, or Remixer. Ciara', opening the Multiple Artist Splitter and pressing the Split button will automatically separate the artists for you, while leaving the original value as the Display Artist. If the Artist value is currently saved as 'Justin Timberlake ft. For example, you might prefer to display 'Justin Timberlake ft. The Artist and Composer fields allow you to enter a special Display tag, which is shown in the Tag Editor and the corresponding fields in your library, while preserving split tag values in the file. Splitter screens are limited by the size of your monitor if there are so many values that the splitter exceeds the window size, you should use the Tag Inspector to continue. You can also click the button to open a multiple value editor. For example, entering 'Justin Timberlake Ciara' would store both artists and include both artists separately in places like Artists View and the Column Browser. Each value is separated using a semicolon ( ). MusicBee allows multiple values to be stored for many tag fields. You can also set Track and Album rating, and you can use the artwork frame here to add artwork just like the one on the Artwork tab. This tab shows major info about the track like Title, Artist, etc. You can also add or edit source website info, and filename unless you're using Auto-Organize.ĭue to reduced space, Date Modified, Last Played, and Play/Skip Count are not available when the tag editor is docked in the main panel. However, you can choose to change the date added to the MB database, encoder info, and play/skip counts if you wish. The properties tab mostly shows descriptive file info that cannot be edited directly. MusicBee will read but not write APE tags.AIFF files cannot be tagged except by saving the tags in the MusicBee database.ID3 chunk which I don't think is a standard WAV file tagging type but a number of players are using it.LIST/ INFO chunk which is a standard that covers some of the tags. WAV files have less definite standards, but Steven says this is how MusicBee handles them:.ID3v2.3 is the most common, but MusicBee also supports v1 and v2.4.Standards provide a common syntax that allows tags to be read and edited across multiple programs and devices.Įach file format has a particular tagging standard: Tag standards refer to the expected format of metadata in a file, in our case audio files. Each tab of the editor is shown below, along with a list of how the tags are saved to the file for some common formats. The tag editor can be shown as a floating window or docked at the bottom of the main panel. Both these operations will overwrite any existing values in the field. Fields which have differing values will be shown as blank, and checking this box will clear them all. If you change a field, it will be automatically checked and the value will be applied to all the tracks. If you edit more than one track at once, there will be a check box next to each field. There is also a hotkey for this command (Shift+Enter by default). You can open the tag editor for any track or group of tracks by selecting them, right clicking, and choosing "Edit" from the menu.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |