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The MediaBay
Tagging multiple files simultaneously
There is no limit as to how many files can be tagged at the
same time, but you need to be aware that the tagging of
thousands of files in one go may take quite a while. This
operation is executed in background, so that you can con-
tinue with your work as usual. By looking at the Tagging
Counter in the MediaBay info line you can see how many
files still have to be updated.
The Tagging Counter shows the number of files that still need to be up-
dated.
• The display will be updated immediately in the different
MediaBay sections, even if the values have not been writ-
ten to the corresponding media files yet.
• If you close Cubase before the Tagging Counter has
gone down to zero, a dialog with a progress bar is dis-
played, indicating how long the updating process will take.
You can choose to abort this process if you need to close
the application immediately.
In this case only the files that were updated before you clicked “Abort”
will have the new tag value.
Tagging write-protected files
Media files may be write-protected due to a number of
reasons: They may belong to content that was provided by
someone else who write-protected the files, you may have
write-protected them yourself in order not to overwrite
them accidentally, or they could be generally unwritable
because the file format does not allow write operations by
the MediaBay.
In the MediaBay, the write protection status of files is
shown as an attribute in the Tag Editor and in the Write
Protection column in the Viewer display.
The Write Protection column in the Viewer display
• Regardless of the write protection status, you can al-
ways change the attribute values of a file in the MediaBay.
If the corresponding file is write-protected, however, these
changes will not be written to disk and occur in the Media-
Bay only.
• If you have set new attribute values for a file that is
write-protected, this will be reflected in the Pending Tags
column.
Note that if you rescan the MediaBay content and a media file on your
hard disk has changed since the last scan, all pending tags for this file
will be lost.
• If a file has pending tags, and you want to write the cor-
responding attributes to the file, you need to remove the
write protection first, and then select the “Write Tags to
File” command from the context menu.
You can change the write-protection status of your media
files, provided that the file type allows write operations
and you have the necessary operation system permis-
sions:
• To set or remove the write protection attribute for a file,
simply select the file in the Viewer display and select “Set/
Remove Write Protection” from the context menu.
Ö If the Write Protection and/or the Pending Tags col-
umn are not visible, you may have to enable the corre-
sponding attributes for the file type in question using the
Manage Tags window, see “Managing the tag lists” on
page 284.
Ö If you use other programs than Cubase to change the
write-protection status of a file, this will not be reflected in
the MediaBay until you rescan the files! Be aware, how-
ever, that this might lead to further changes in the Media-
Bay content.