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The MediaBay
3. To display a certain tag in the Filter section, the Viewer
display or the Tag Editor, activate the corresponding check-
box for this tag:
4. Close the Manage Tags dialog by clicking its close
button.
Your settings will be applied.
• The Type column shows whether the value for a tag is a
number, text or a Yes/No-type switch. The Precision col-
umn shows the number of decimals displayed after a point
for number tags.
• Click and drag in the tag display to select several tags
(click somewhere outside the selected area to deselect).
This way, you can activate/deactivate all selected checkboxes in one go.
• To return to the default tag display settings for the Filter,
Viewer and Tag Editor sections, click the “Reset to Default”
button (above the tag display) in the Manage Tags dialog.
Displaying tags in the Tag Editor
You can switch the tag display in the Tag Editor:
• Click on “Managed” to show only the tags activated for
display in the Manage Tags dialog.
Use this view to limit the tag display to those tags that are of interest to you.
• Click on “All” to show all tags for the file selected in the
Viewer for which values are available.
Use this display if you wish to see all tags, including standard file at-
tributes such as Name, Size or Date Modified.
Displaying tags in the Viewer
Most of the time, tags displayed in the MediaBay are
sorted alphabetically. Only in the Viewer can you change
the tag display order:
• Move the mouse pointer to a column heading, click and
drag that heading to another position in the display.
Editing tags in the Tag Editor
You can use the Tag Editor to edit tag values of the vari-
ous media files. Tag values can be chosen from pop-up
lists, entered as text or numbers or set to Yes or No.
Ö Note that changing a tag value in the Tag Editor may
permanently change the corresponding file.
When it comes to editing, you will notice that there are dif-
ferent types of tags:
• “Display only” tags cannot be edited. Their values are
displayed in a lighter color.
In this case, the file format probably does not permit changing this value,
or changing a particular value makes no sense (e.g. you cannot change
the file size in the MediaBay, because you have no way of adding or re-
moving media information).
• When clicking in the Value column for most attributes, a
pop-up menu opens from which you can choose a value.
For some of the pop-up menus there is a “more…” button
to open a window with even more tag values.
These tag selection windows also feature a Text Search button that you
can use to find specific values more quickly.
• Many tag values can also be edited by double-clicking
in the Value column of the Tag Editor.
Simply enter/change the text or number setting in the field displayed for a
value.
• Some of the tags (“Category” and “Sub Category” as
well as “Style” and “Sub Style”) are directly linked to each
other. The “Category” pop-up for example allows you to
set a category, and the “Sub Category” pop-up contains
the corresponding sub categories sorted according to the
categories.
By picking a sub category belonging to a different category, the Category
tag will be changed as well (the same is true for Style and Sub Style).
• Clicking in the Value column for the “Character” tag
opens the Edit Character dialog.
Click a radio button on the left or the right side and then click OK to de-
fine values for the Character tag.
• By clicking in the Value column for the Rating tag and
dragging to the left or right, you can rate the file on a scale
from 1 to 5.
For example, use this to indicate the file’s sound quality or its suitability
for a certain purpose.
The “Category” tag
is selected for dis-
play in the Filter tag
lists, the Viewer and
in the Tag Editor.
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In Cubase Studio, tags can be edited only in the
Viewer.