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21 | <title>Disobedience: Track Properties</title> | |
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27 | <h1>4. Track Properties</h1> | |
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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> | |
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33 | <p>This window can be invoked from any of the four tabs by | |
a80fe344 | 34 | selecting one or more tracks and then either selecting <b>Edit > |
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35 | Track Properties</b> or via the right-click pop-up menu.</p> |
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37 | <h2><a name=names>4.1 Track Name Parts</a></h2> | |
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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> | |
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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> | |
62 | ||
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 | |
a80fe344 | 69 | which tracks are picked at random.</p> |
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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 | ||
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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> | |
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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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