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Use the album editor to complete data album data in detail. Album Type and Appearance Type Set to Album when creating a
regular music album as at appears on a CD. Set to Track Collection if you
want to create a user collection instead of an album. If set, the
AlbumPlayer will use Replay Gain values per track instead that one value is used
for the whole album. See also Equalizer and
Replay Gain. Set to Web Radio when you want to make a collection of radio statios. In that
case web radio links are added to the track list of the album instead
of tracks. Show As Handle album always as one track list Album Artist and Title Artist Name Album Name Add Artist / Edit Artist Artist Database Tab Page: Cover In this tab page you can load or remove a cover and cut off dirty edges with
a crop function. The cover will be saved in the database using the original
image resolution. Open Paste Clear Google Image Crop Clear selection Reset Tab page: More Images At this page you can start an images dialog to select additional
images for the album like an image of the CD itself or the back of the
album. The images can be stored in the database but it is also possible to only
store the reference to the image. This can be useful when you only want
to keep the additional images in the album directory and not have them
copied to the database. The images are shown in the album info. If
you want to add artist images, better use the artist editor. Tab page: Album attributes Fill album related attributes here. In the Styles and
Tones fields you can enter multiple values separated by a comma.
The language field can also contain the value <artist
language>. This means that the language used on the album is the same as
the one you entered for the artist in the artist database. Tab page: Track
attributes Fill track related attributes here for the selected track. If the name
of the track artist in the Artist field exactly matches the name
of the album artist, then <album artist> is shown instead of the
artist name. Advantage is that when you want to adjust the album artist name you
don't have to adjust the track artist name. The same applies for the
Composer, Conductor and Orchestra fields.
The language field can also contain the value <artist language>.
This means that the language used on the album is the same as the one you
entered for the artist in the artist database. Tab page: Other Caching Album info, Track info and Cover
Lookup In the drop down list first choose a lookup resource. Yoe can choose from the
following resources: After choosing the lookup type, there is an Auto Lookup and/or a
Manual Search button shown. The appearance of these buttons depends on
the lookup type. Auto Lookup Manual Search After the lookup process is finished (either auto or manual), each song list
result of a lookup process is put in this results list. Album information
overwrites existing album data. To prevent overwriting album values go to the Album
info page of the preferences dialog. Tracks
This list contains the tracks of the album. When the
album consists of multiple CD's, the track list consists of tab pages with
the tabs below the list. Uncheck the tracks
when tracks should not copied to playlist by default. This applies to album
selection and to the Auto DJ (Database Shuffle / Direct
Play). Tracks will also be unchecked when using the Ban this
track button in the Player bar. Hide Pathnames Add Tracks
Choose the album
type here
Specify here how the album
should be visiualised in the album grid. You can choose from the following
Set this option if you want to manage multiple CD's of ane
album in one track list. If not set, the AlbumPlayer keeps CD's of an album
as separate track lists. You can switch between the CD's below the
track list part of the album editor. 
Enter the artist name
here
Enter the album name
here
This button
is named Add Artist or Edit Artist depending if the artist is not part or
already part of the artist database. When pressing the button the Artist
editor is opened for that artist. If the artist was not yet in the
artist database, it will be added.
The Artist
database editor is opened.
Opens a file dialog to look for
an image on disk.
Use this button to paste an
image which you copied from an internet page for example.
Removes the cover.
Starts an internet
browser and opens an images page using an album search command. Click
an image which you like to use, so you have it in full size. Then copy this
image and paste it in the album editor.
Select an area of the
cover using the mouse. Then press crop, so white, black or dirty edges can
be removed.
Clears the crop
rectangle.
Resets the image to full size
again after cropping. This is only possible when the album is not saved to
the database yet.
This field is about album
caching. The function can be considered as obsolete since, album collections are
on hard disk these days instead of separate CD's.
Reads album and track information from
the directory and filenames. Use the settings button to define the tags to
read from the names.
Reads album, cover and track
information from the tags from the track files.
Reads a cover from the album directory. Use
the settings button to define the image to look for.
Reads album, cover and track information from
Last.fm
Reads album and track information from freedb.
Reads cover(s) from amazon.com.
Using the button, the
AlbumPlayer fully automatically tries to locate album information.
Using the button, user
interaction is needed. This means that the user itself has to browse to the
correct information to get to the page of the proper album data. This
applies to freedb only.
Set this option if you
only want to see the track filename listed instead of the full path
Use this button to add tracks. A file dialog is
opened from where you can select the tracks to add.
Add Station
(in case of web radio)http://www.radioparadise.com/musiclinks/rp_128-9.m3u
http://www.sky.fm/mp3/classical.pls
http://somafm.com/tags.pls
Reorganise
The reorganise button is
only visible when lookup source AMG is used (not in demo version). The
AlbumPlayer will try to order the tracks according the lookup results on
the right side table. This is based on naming and track length.
Track Title Lookup Results
After the lookup process is finished song results are put in this results list, you can manually evaluate the results. You can reorder tracks by drag and drop.
Apply
Press this button to copy the
results to the track list at the left. First check if each title in
the result area matches a track in the tracklist at the same line. The results
are copied then to the track list at the right. When pressing the button, you
get a drop down list from which you can also choose to copy only a specific
attribute.
Delete Unmatched
Deletes the tracks
from the lookup result table that do not match the tracks at the left side
table.
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Modify Picklists
This button opens the
preferences dialog at the Picklist pages. From there
you can modify the picklists shown for some album or track
attributes.