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Details Panel (Metadata)

The Details Panel in the Right SideBar displays all the metadata for the selected file.  It also allows you to edit metadata if you edition allows it but double clicking any cell

Customising Details Display

(Ultra and Standard Only)

 Auto-Complete Editing (Ultra Only)
show suggestions while typing based on other values already in the current [field] in the database. 

User Definable Display
Selecting this option will allows selection of which fields you would like to display in the details panel. These fields will always display no matter if metadata is available in a field or not.  To see the selection list click the icon to the right of the option.

Once you get all the fields you care about viewing or editing…
Go ahead and tag away, if you edition allows metadata editing, by selecting the records you want to change and double clicking a [field] you want to change.
NOTE: Dimmed [fields] can’t be edited for the file [type] selected AND all files selected MUST be of the same file [type].


For Ultra users you can also batch update metadata for files using the Batch Rename Panel.

     

    Adding Artwork / Images

    (Standard & Ultra Only)

    basehead also the ability to add Art/Images to files that burn into the ID3 chunk of a file. Just drag a .gif .png .jpg or .tif to the Details Panel and it will add the artwork to the selected records. Images can be added to MP3, Wav and AIF files and can be burned into the files.

    The image artwork will appear in the details panel over the spectrum meter. Click the artwork to move it to the side of the spectrum meter. Right clicking an image will remove it.

    Also if you just place images with the same name as the audio file in the folder with the extensions (.png, .jpg and .jpeg)T
    These will show these as priority over any image burnt into the file.