
This is an excerpt from the main AMPlay documentation.

* 3.4.4 Edittable Attributes:
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This contains all edittable attributes of the selected item, other than
naming (which has its own tab).

It is divided into three sections - General, Filters, and Actions.

Different options may be available depending on whether the selected
item is a track, album, artist or the entire database. Many options
cannot be applied to the entire database in one go, or are not
meaningful in that case (e.g. adjusting relative volume of all tracks
is pointless).


General
~~~~~~~

This contains;

- Relative track volume: The current value is displayed, and up/down
  buttons can be used to adjust it. If an album or artist is selected,
  the value shown is an average of the tracks contained in that album or
  artist, and this will be indicated. In that case, using the up/down
  buttons will add or remove 1 from all the tracks affected (keeping
  within the -63-+63 range), and recalculate the average. Relative track
  volume is discussed in more depth in section 2.9

- Random weighting: This indicates the current weighting, and has
  up/down buttons to change it. This can be set at track, album or
  artist level, and so is never an average. This must be in the range
  -7 to +7. Random weighting is discussed in more depth in section 2.10

- Link item to next: This allows you to see or set the linkage on the
  item. This is discussed in more depth in section 2.8. Note that
  linkage set on the last track in the album, last album in the artist
  or last artist in the database has no effect, although the interface
  will let you do it.

- Ignore Uniqueness: This allows you to see or set the ignore
  uniqueness flag. This allows the item to be picked by AMPlay even if
  it has been played recently, and is discussed in more depth in
  section 2.7.

- Naming: This indicates the current naming method for the track.
  Clicking change takes you to the naming pane, covered in more detail
  in 3.4.5, below.

Filters
~~~~~~~

This has 20 tickboxes, with the name of the filter by each one. The
status of the item in each filter is indicated.

Each button has one of 5 states;

- Never (no tick)
- Always (a simple tick)
- Isolation only (A small tick with the random/shuffle symbol)
- Linear only (A small tick with the linear symbol)
- Mixed. (A combination of the linear and isolation symbols)

For tracks, only the first four of those apply.

For albums and artists, Mixed indicates that the album/artist contains
some tracks with isolation only set, and some with linear only set, but
no tracks with always set. This means that there will always be
something in that album which is playable, regardless of the playback
order, but it will be different tracks in each case. You can't put an
album or artist into the 'mixed' state, and any changes made at the
album or artist level will change it into one of the other four.

Filtering only exists at the track level. The filters on albums and
artists are calculated by ORing the track level filters together.

If the selected item is an album or artist, and you click one of the
filter buttons, it changes to the next state (e.g. if it was never, it
changes to always), and that new state is applied to all the tracks in
the album or artist. i.e. all tracks within the album/artist end up
with the same setting for that filter.

Clicking with Adjust cycles through the states in the opposite order.

Filtering is covered in more depth in section 2.6


Actions
~~~~~~~

These aren't attributes as such, but this seemed the best place to put
them.

From here you can do the following to the selected item:

- Play: Plays the item now.
- Queue: Adds the item to the queue. By default it makes no change to
  the history position. Shift+click to force the queued item to be
  played next.
- Remove: This removes the item from the database. This is not an
  easily reversible operation. Use with caution. Confirmation is
  required if the operation would remove all items from the database.
- Remove history: This scans the track history, and removes any history
  entries that refer to the selected item.
- Move up/Move down: These move the selected item up or down within the
  database, allowing you to manually sort items into your preferred
  order. You can only move tracks within albums, albums within artists,
  or artists within the database. The buttons will be greyed out if the
  item cannot be moved in one or other direction. Note that doing a
  sort will re-order things without regard to any manual changes you
  make.
- Refresh time: This causes the duration to be re-read for the tracks
  within the selection.
- Export: This opens the export window, defaulting to custom options to
  export the selected item. Refer to section 3.5 for more details on
  the export interface.

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Copyright  2008 Mike Sandells, mike@mikejs.com
Last Modified: 30.05.2008