help - editing

Editing mode allows you to edit information about songs, artists, albums, artist types, as well as associations between these things. Editing is a "context mode," that is, rather than a long menu of editing options, you turn on editing, and you can then directly edit information that appears on the screen.

Note that editing requires permission from your administrator - if you don't see 'edit' in the main menu at the top, you don't have permission to edit.

To enter edit mode, click on the "edit" button in top menu. The "edit" menu option should now have a box around it, indicating that editing is on. Click on the ("close") button to turn editing off; click on the word "edit" to see an abbreviated editing menu.

Once you're in edit mode, as you browse through the database (by clicking on an artist, or an album, or in the queue, etc.), you'll see the standard information screens with form input boxes, allowing you to directly edit information about that item.

You may also see the editing button () appear next to a number of things - clicking on that button will either bring up an information screen (e.g. click the edit button next to an artist's name to edit that artist), or an association screen (e.g. click the edit button next to a genre on an album to edit album genres).

To edit categories of information such as artist, artist type or genre, use the edit menu on the left.

detailed instructions

• albums - you can edit the album title, comments, notes, year, genres and artists for an album.

  To edit an album, choose the album (or the artist an album appears with) from any place that album or artist appears on the screen (from the queue, through a search, or from the artists menu...). The details of the album that you can edit should now appear in form boxes, allowing you to modify those details. Click on "accept changes" once you're satisfied.

  To associate an album with artists or genres, click the edit button next to artists or genres on the "edit album: $album" page. That is, get to the 'edit an album' page, then click on the edit button next to the artists/genres with which the album is associated.

  When choosing artists or genres for an album, changes are applied to all the songs on the album at once by default. You can still individually add and remove genres or artists from a particular song.

• artist - you can separately edit the way an artist appears on the screen, and how it is categorized alphabetically. Choose an artist, then click on edit icon next to the artist's name (it should be at the top of the screen). "Artist" means what the band or the person is called (Tom Waits, The Pogues) and "Fileunder" is how the artists are alphabetically categorized ( 'Waits, Tom' and 'Pogues' show up under W and P respectively).

  You can also choose 'edit or delete an artist' from the menu above.

• delete - you can delete "empty" artists and genres - those that are not associated with any song or album. Choose 'edit or delete an artist' or 'edit or delete a genre' from the edit menu on the left. All 'empty' categories will have the close image next to them. Clicking on the close icon will delete that artist or genre.

• genre - you can edit the way a genre appears on the screen. choose the edit button next to a genre that appears on a particular album or song. Or, click on 'edit or delete a genre' from the menu above.

• queue - you can edit how songs are chosen at random for the queue. you may opt to only include certain genres, to play all genres except some set, or to ignore genre. note that for the first two options, where genre is considered, songs without a genre will not be played.

• songs - you can edit the title, track, year, comments, etc. for any song, and thus how it appears when it's on the screen. You can also edit which artists a song is associated with, as well as which genres apply to a song.

  To edit a song, click on the information icon ( ) to show song details, then edit the information for that song.

  To associate a song with artists or genres, click on the edit button next to any song from the 'display album' or 'display artist' page, then click on the edit button next to the song artist(s) or genre(s).

Please Note:

• Editing how an artist or genre appears changes all occurrences of that artist or genre. Editing which artist or genre is associated with a song changes which artist(s) or genre(s) appear in conjunction with that song or album.