Using Guayadeque | Portable Media Devices | Visualizer
Track Editor
Choose a track to edit
Guayadeque powerful editor has six different tabs:
- Details: With support for Track Name, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Disks, Track Number / Album Total Tracks, Album/Track Year, Genre, Composer, Comments, Encoded By, Encoder (include encoding options), Copyright and URL. The button at the right of each field lets you apply the tag to all the selected tracks.
- Rename Files: Here you can rename files according to your tags using a configurable pattern. For this you need to select, from the song list, the tracks to rename. You can specify the new name as a pattern using the track tags. Using this tool you will not loose your ratings, play counts or labels (you do if you move or rename the files with an external program), thus it is the recommended way to move music in Guayadeque.
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Pictures: Here you can choose your album cover. Guayadeque allows you to search the Web or select it from your hard drive. Once you are happy with the image you can either save it to the album folder or embed it into the tracks (or both in fact).
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Lyrics: In this tab you can search/download, import, save and remove the lyrics of your songs. You may find that you don't need to do this now as Guayadeque will do it automatically later when you play the songs if you enabled it in preferences. The Remove button clears the selected lyrics. You can also import lyrics from a '.lyrics', '.lrc' or '.txt' file using the import button. It'll load the selected lyrics in the correct tab depending on the lyrics format (Synced/Unsynced). Lyrics saved to a file follow the lyric they hold, so a unsynced lyric is written as a '.lyric' file and a synced one is written as a '.lrc' file.
- Lyrics: In this tab you can import, save and remove the unsynced lyrics (.lyric) of your songs. The Remove button clears the track unsynced lyrics. The import button loads a '.lyrics', '.lrc' or '.txt' file into this tab, and the save button writes the lyrics shown in this tab to a file.
- Synced Lyrics: In this tab you can import, save and remove the timed lyrics (karaoke style, '.lrc') of your songs. Synced lyrics are saved to the synchronized lyrics field of MP3 files (SYLT), while other audio formats save them in the LYRICS tag with the Synced Lyrics tab disabled. The import button loads a '.lyrics', '.lrc' or '.txt' file into this tab, and the save button writes the lyrics shown in this tab to a file.
- MusicBrainz: The last tab allows you to query musicbrainz.org to correctly identify and tag your music. This is a very easy and convenient way to tag your albums. The next video shows how to use it.
The song list shows file names only and accepts multiple selection; the directory of the reference track, relative to its collection root, is shown in the field above it, and its full file name goes to the status bar. The Copy buttons apply to the selected tracks. The Save button persists the edits without closing the editor (Ctrl+S also saves). File names are shown in bold while they have changes that still need to be saved, making it clear which songs are pending. The Track Total field is also filled when numbering tracks.
Extra tags are supported depending on the format: Encoder, Encoded by, Copyright and Url are shown when the format keeps them in a field of its own (for example Opus and Ogg Vorbis files). Encoded By and Encoder are read-only fields. Audio properties (Channels and Sample Rate) are also displayed. The "Encoder" row also shows the options the file was encoded with, whenever the format keeps them in a field of its own.