Single-Tag Editor

Access: Menu > View > Single-Tag, Tag Button, <Alt+G>

Select the Single-Tag Editor by clicking the Tag button above the Browser. This small editor serves the dual purpose of 1) displaying and editing tag data in a single file selected in the File Window, and 2) pasting the same data into multiple tags (rows) selected in the Main Editor.

Each of a file's seven primary tag fields can be individually enabled or disabled for saving or pasting by checking or unchecking, respectively, the check box immediately to its right. Only enabled fields are saved or pasted. Data are initially loaded into this Editor from the file selected in the Browser. Data can either be saved back into the file from which it came, or into multiple files, if one or more files are highlighted in the Main Editor.

Toggle: Checks/unchecks all tag fields in the Editor at once.

Clear: Removes text from all fields in the Single-Tag Editor. This will not remove data from the tag itself.

Data Source: Selects which tag type to view in the Single Tag Editor. When yellow (caption "V1'), the Editor is displaying ID3v1 tag data. When green, data from any other type of tag is being listed, as reflected in the button's label. Click this button to cycle through available tag types for the specific file being viewed.

Open Panel: Opens/closes a panel containing additional check boxes for pasting additional tag fields not listed in the Single-Tag Editor. A red LED in the upper right corner of the Editor indicates whether one or more of these boxes are checked.

Save/Paste: Commits data to either 1) the file selected in the Browser, or 2) to selected files in the Main Editor.

• When the button has this appearance, data in each enabled field is written to the single file highlighted in the Browser (the button will have appearance when there are no files selected in the Main Editor).
• Tag data in each enabled field is written to files selected in the Main Editor (see Writing Single-Tag Editor Data to Multiple Files below). The button takes on this appearance anytime one or more files are selected in the Main Editor.

Although the "Track" box shows only the track number itself, you can use it to add or edit a "total album tracks" as well, in tags that support the storage of both in the same field (ID3v2, OGG, APE, AAC, FLAC, MPC, MP4, M4A). To store both numbers, enter the track number followed by a backslash ( / ), then follow the backslash with the total number of tracks (example: 4/12). Entering a backslash in an empty Track box fetches any pre-existing "track" and "total tracks" numbers from the tag and places them in the box. Entering a backslash after a track number will fetch a pre-existing "total tracks" number from the tag and append it to the Track number in the box for editing.

Writing Single-Tag Editor Data to Multiple Files

The "Paste" functions on popup menus in the Main Editor are convenient for pasting data into a single column, but sometimes you would like to paste the same data into multiple fields at one time. The Single-Tag Editor can be used to paste the same data from several tag fields at one time into multiple files. Select the Single-Tag Editor by clicking the Tag Tab above the Browser . The Editor initially loads with tag data from the file selected in the File Window. Accept the data as shown or enter changes, then enable each desired field for pasting by checking the respective checkbox to its right. Uncheck fields you do not want to have written out. Additional tag fields are made available on a roll out panel for inclusion in the paste process. Press the Open/Close Panel button to access it. Select files in the Main Editor as described below into which you would like to paste the data.

Selecting files in the Main Editor is done in much the same way you select files in your favorite browser. Here, however, you select row numbers instead of file names. The first file is selected simply by left-clicking its row number with the mouse. As this is done, the row becomes highlighted. Multiple files can be selected in several ways:

1. To select one at a time, in any order, select the first file as described above, then continue left-clicking row numbers of each additional file you want to select.
2. To select consecutive files, position the cursor over the row number of the first file to be selected, then depress and hold down the left mouse button while dragging the mouse up or down the first column and across the row number of each additional file you want to select.
3. An alternate way to select consecutive files is to select the first file as described in 1) above; then hold the shift-key depressed and select the last. All files from the first through the last are selected.
4. Select all rows at once (or un-select them) by clicking the Select All Button on the Center Toolbar.

Confirmations for saving tag data can be enabled or disabled in the Confirmations & Warnings section on in Preferences.

When saving Comments to multiple non-ID3v1 tags, carets (^) in Comment fields are interpreted as newline characters. When saving to ID3v1 tags, any carets in the data are automatically replaced with space characters before being written to the tag. See topic Comment Editor for additional details about multi-line Comments.