The edit profile panel contains all the settings which control the import of metadata. The panel is divided into four sections:
- Configuration Settings
- These settings are those that are not associated with any particulare metadata item. The configuration settings are described in detain below.
- Album Import Settings
- These settings describe the metadata items associated with the album as opposed to tracks. Barcode and Single will be imported to UDTIs or custom fields.
- Album & Track Import Settings
- These settings describe the metadata items which are imported from the album and might be overwritten if track level metadata is imported.
- Track Import Settings
- These settings describe the metadata items which are imported from tracks. Original Release Time is only imported if it differs from the Release Time.
Note that all import settings are tri-state checkboxes. When On, the item is always imported. When Off, the item is not imported. When Mixed (-), the item is only imported if it is not already present in the file.
The panel's context menu can be used to mark all import settings for import, non import or import only if empty. Note that the configuration settings are not affected by the context menu functions.
Configuration Settings
- File Grouping
- The Album Search action can perform multiple searches. This setting controls how the selected files are grouped. When the value column is Album, albums are grouped by the Album metadata item. When the value column is Folder, tracks in the same folder are grouped. When the value column is All Files, all selected tracks are treated as a single group.
- Ignore all but first genre
- An album can have multiple genres. When this settings is On, only the first genre will be retained.
- Ignore first genre in mood
- The mood field is imported as a copy of the genre information. When this setting is On, the first genre in the list will not be placed into mood.
- Join sequence
- The genre and mood fields might be populated with multiple items. If this field is empty, the multi value delimiter is used. When non empty, the field's contents will be use to delimit values.
- Match track threshold
- When mapping tracks to files, a weighted comparison is performed by comparing a file's Artist, Title, Disc, and Track fields and its duration against the available downloaded track metadata. This test always results in the mapping of a single file to every track (assuming they are available).
A second test is performed which produces a percentage fuzzy score by comparing a downloaded tracks's title with the following:
- a file's title
- a filename
- a filename run through all available File to Tag templates. This is used to extract the title from the filename which may contain other metadata components.
The fuzzy comparison ignores alphabetic case, accents and will discard all words in the Weight Exception set. By removing the words in the Weight Exception set, the accuracy is improved.
The threshold supplied in this setting determines the percentage at which a fuzzy comparison will be considered a perfect match. When displaying the mapping results, only those items which had the correct Apple Music Catalog ID or meet the threshold requirements will be preselected for import.
- Only import album tags
- When this option is set, only metadata at the album level will be imported. ie. all track level import settings will be treated as Off.
- Post Import Action
- This field can optionally contain the name of an action to be run whenever metadata is imported. If an album is skipped the action is not run.
- Remove existing artwork
- When artwork is imported it is added. When this setting is On, existing artwork will be deleted whenever artwork is imported.
- Request Limit
- As with the Discogs and MusicBrainz wizards, search replies are effectively limited to 25, 60, 75 or 100 items.
- Select all loaded files
- When set to On, all loaded files will be processed regardless of the current file selection.
- Storefront
- The Apple Music API targets a particular storefront. Each storefront is represented by a two character code. Select a storefront from the value cell's menu.
- Truncate year to yyyy
- The Year field is populated from Release Time metadata. When this setting is On, only the year will be saved.
- Write imported tag
- When set to On, a UDTI named Apple Music Import Time will be written with a timestamp as a value whenever a track has something imported.
- Write skipped tags
- When set to On, and an album is skipped, a UDTI named Apple Music Skipped will be written with a timestamp as a value. Whenever track level metadata is being imported a track is not mapped, a UDTI named Apple Music Unmatched will be written with a timestamp as a value.
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