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Managing the database

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To open the song database manager select Manage song database button on the playlist window, or choose Song database command from File menu. Song database dialog box will appear.

 

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Song database dialog box allows you to find any song in the database. The text entered in Search filter is matched against artist name, song title, and disc ID.  It has multi-matching capability, meaning that you may enter several match phrases. For example, entering ma he will display all songs that contain 'ho' and 'ca' strings (so the list of results may include Made In Heaven, Hell's Maid, Mayhem, and Last Day of May by The Heap) As you can see the searches are not case-dependent, and the order of the match does not matter.

 

To view all the songs in the database click Show All button (it may take a while to display large databases).

 

Remove button allows you to remove the song that is currently selected in the list of songs. You may select and remove more than one song (press CTRL key when selecting to select multiple songs, or press SHIFT key to select a range of songs).

 

Edit button displays and allows to modify the properties of first of the selected songs. It displays Song Properties dialog box.

 

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You may change any of the fields. Once you are done select OK.

 

Import Songs button allows to import songs into the database.

 

Export button allows to save the list of the songs in the database into the text or data file that can be used to create a song book.

 

Delete All removes all songs from the database.

 

Validate songs checks if all the files registered in the database exist. If they do not exist you will be presented with three options:

remove the song from the database (use this option if the songs have been deleted from the hard drive)

keep the songs (use this option if you plan to replace the songs, ie. if you will reconnect the external drive)

look for the songs on a different drives (this option is useful if you have the songs on the external drive and the drive letter has changed)

 

Collections allow to define subsets of your song collection to use in Remote Queue. You may add currently displayed songs as a new collection, and then add or remove songs from the collection to fine-tune it.