foobar2000 is a free music player for Windows. It features multiple playlists, a music database, streaming, ReplayGain support, extensive plug-ins support and more.
A note to potential editors
The Newbie Guide is intended to provide no more than a very basic competence in fb2k. Therefore, it should be relatively broad, readable in one sitting, and contain only the most essential information for getting started. Any documentation beyond this purpose belongs in the Intermediate or Advanced Use sections. Similarly, small issues that demand a significant amount of detail are better suited for the FAQ section.
Remember that if any reader feels that the Newbie Guide is beneath them, they may always move beyond it, but a Newbie Guide that is bogged down by too much information will be no less intimidating than the looming behemoth we call our forum.
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Vor dem Hintergrund <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56672">tiefroter Geschäftszahlen</a> für das Geschäftsjahr 2004 hat der Internetportalbetreiber <a href="http://www.lycos-europe.com/" target="_blank">Lycos Europe</a> angekündigt, im Gesamtjahr 2005 seine Kosten um 30 Millionen Euro senken zu wollen. Davon soll nach dpa-Informationen ein Drittel auf Personalausgaben entfallen.
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So werden wegen der deutlich günstigeren Personalkosten 100 der insgesamt 905 Lycos-Stellen von Westeuropa ins armenische Eriwan verlagert. Dabei geht es um Produktentwicklung und Fernüberwachung der Server. Weitere 100 Stellen sollen eingespart werden. Von dem geplanten Abbau sei Deutschland jedoch nur mit 18 Stellen betroffen.
Nicht bekannt ist, ob Lycos-Europe-Vorstand Christoph Mohn sich ebenfalls an den Einsparungen der Personalausgaben beteiligen wird. Seine Bezüge beliefen sich laut Geschäftsbericht im Jahr 2004 auf 293.148 Euro. Hinzu kommt ein noch zu ermittelnder Bonus, der im Jahr 2003 52.250 Euro betrug.
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Languages
English
Platforms
Windows
No known plans exists to port it to other platforms, but attempts have been made, with varying degrees of success, to run foobar2000 on x86 Linux systems by using Wine.
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Newbie Guide
Introduction
Always remember that the best way to become comfortable with foobar is to read the forums regularly and to play around with foobar itself. 90% of what you learn will come from the forums and experimentation.
The heart of foobar lies in its components, which supplement foobar's functionality. If you are having trouble with a component, the first step is to consult that component's documentation, preferences, and forum thread. Any question you have as a beginner has probably already been asked and answered in the forums a half dozen times. Please search the forums thoroughly for an answer before posting your question. If you must post a question, try to avoid creating a new topic. An appropriate topic most likely already exists, so post your question as a reply in that topic.
Using Columns UI
It is best for reasonably computer-literate users to start with Columns UI as their user interface; the TAGZ formatting needed is very basic and the panel extensions will make foobar much more user-friendly, resembling mp3 players you're more accustomed to.
Bookmark these sites before using Columns UI:
Columns UI thread: very large, but the first post contains links to important related sites and panel extensions
Columns UI FAQ: a short FAQ, including installation instructions
Playlist View: The Playlist View is the large area that displays the songs in your current playlist. Other playlists appear as tabs at the top of the Playlist View. Each row in the Playlist View is divided into one or more columns that may be individually formatted using TAGZ strings.
Toolbar: The Toolbar is the area above the Playlist View and can display playback buttons, the menu, playlist search, and other toolbar components.
Sidebar: The Sidebar resides to the left of the Playlist View and can display panel extensions as well as toolbar components. The Sidebar is enabled by checking both "Enable Sidebar" and "Show Sidebar" in the "Columns UI" subgroup of the "Components" menu.
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TAGZ is the language used to define how information about a track is displayed. Although you can do some very complex things using TAGZ, you should have a basic understanding of it now because you'll be encountering it a lot whether you want to or not. The text displayed in each column of the playlist in Columns UI is defined by a string of TAGZ code, located in "Foobar 2000 > Preferences > Display > Columns UI > (Columns tab)." TAGZ strings and functions are thoroughly documented in the titleformat_help.html file located in your foobar2000 directory. Bookmark this file and familiarize yourself with it as much as possible. It might look very strange at first, but once you see some TAGZ strings "in action" it will begin to make sense, and you will refer to it constantly.
Columns UI preferences
Looking in the Columns UI preferences, you will see that the TAGZ code used for the "Artist" column is:
[%artist%]
%artist% retrieves the contents of the ARTIST field stored in the file's tag. The brackets [ ] around %artist% mean that the ARTIST field should only be shown if it exists. If there is no ARTIST field, nothing will be displayed; without the brackets, a question mark would be displayed.
Not to be confused with TAGZ, a file's "tag" contains what is known as "metadata." Information about the file, such as artist, album, tracknumber, etc., are stored within the file in the form of tag fields. Much of the foobar environment is vitally dependent on accurate tags, so keep yours in order.
Some common tag fields are:
The File Info window
ARTIST
ALBUM ARTIST (for "Various Artists," etc.)
ALBUM
TRACKNUMBER
TITLE (track title)
DATE
GENRE
COMMENT
To view and edit the tag fields contained within a particular file, right-click on that file in the playlist and click "Properties."
Data in the "Technical info" pane on the right can be retrieved using a double underscore: %__bitrate%.
Looking again in Columns UI preferences, the TAGZ string used for the "Title" column is:
$if2(%title%,%_filename%)
$if2(x,y) is a TAGZ function that takes two parameters and produces one result. Using titleformat_help.html, try to figure out what this TAGZ string will produce, and why it was written this way. You might also want to try creating columns that contain your own TAGZ strings. As always, titleformat_help.html is your best friend.
Track Info's real-time display
The trackinfo panel can be VERY helpful in teaching you how TAGZ strings behave. This panel updates in real-time as you edit its TAGZ-based configuration. It is recommended that you install and display this panel, using it as a "scratch pad" to help you become familiar with TAGZ.
As you become more proficient, you might want to download some ready-made Columns UI configs to see some more complex TAGZ strings in action. Import the .fcs file from the "Other" tab in the Columns UI preferences (be sure to export your current config first to back it up in case you're not happy with the one you import). Study how these strings do what they do and change them around to see how the display is affected.
Masstagger
The Masstagger component is very handy when you need to perform relatively complex tag operations on a group of files.
To perform tag operations on a group of files using Masstagger, highlight those files in the playlist, right-click on them, and choose "Masstagger > Edit tags." The "Actions to perform" pane in the Masstagger window displays the actions that will be performed on the list of "Files to process" when the "Run" button is clicked. To add an action to perform, click the "Add" button.
The Masstagger window
A simple action to perform is to set some field to a given value. For example, to set the GENRE field for all selected files to "Rock," choose "Set value..." from the "Select action type" window. In the "Field name" drop down list, choose "GENRE," and in the "Field value" box, type "Rock" (without quotes). When you click "OK," the action will be listed in the "Actions to perform" pane. Click "Run" to perform these actions on the selected files.
Before clicking "OK," you may choose to save this group of actions (this "script") for easy retrieval later. Just type in a name for the script in the "Scripts" section below (in this case, something like "Set GENRE to 'Rock'"), and click "Save." Later, to retrieve the saved script, select it from the drop-down menu and click "Load."
Realistically, this would be more easily achieved by selecting the files to be processed in the playlist, right-clicking them and choosing "Properties," then editing the GENRE field in the "File Info" window. There are many more tag actions you can perform with Masstager, including guessing tags from filenames, and formatting tag fields based on other tag fields. These operations depend on an understanding of the TAGZ language. For a more in-depth explanation of some of the possibilities of the Masstagger, see picmixer's 'FB2K's Masstagger, an unofficial Beginners Guide'.
The Database
The Album list window
The Database keeps track of all the info for all the files you play in foobar. The Database is crucial for such things as the albumlist panel (included with Columns UI), the Extended Playlist Generator (included in the special installer), and other components. The Database uses information from your files' tags, so make sure your tags are in order.
To enable the Database, check the "Database enabled" box in the "Database" section of Preferences. If you would like to add an entire directory of music to the Database, enter the directory in the "Restrict directories to:" box. ****QUIT OUT OF FB2K***, start it back up, go back to the "Database" section, THEN click the "scan" button. Keeping this directory in the box will prevent files in other directories from being added in the future, however, so uncheck it if you will be adding files from other locations as well. Files are added to the Database whenever they are added to a playlist.
You can view the contents of the Database using the Album list component. Click "Components > Album list."
Extended Playlist Generator
The Extended Playlist Generator can automatically create playlists from the contents of a playlist or the Database based on criteria that you specify. To access the EPG, click "Components > Extended Playlist Generator > Configure Playlist Query..."
The Extended Playlist Generator
For starters, try entering the name of an artist you know is in your database in the "Query:" box. Click "Run." The results will appear below. To create a playlist with these results, enter a name for the playlist in the "Playlist Name:" box and click the "Create Playlist" button. To save a query, click the "Save" button. It will be saved in the presets under the "Playlist Name" you specified. Once saved, a query can be recalled and its playlist regenerated by clicking "Components > Extended Playlist Generator > Generate Playlist..." in the menu toolbar.
Click the "Help" button in the EPG for help formatting queries. EPG uses both the TAGZ language and its own query language of conditionals such as GREATER and HAS. Try this simple query:
%date% GREATER 1979
This query will return all songs whose DATE tag is greater than 1979. Save this query as "The '80s, '90s, and today!" Queries that use tag fields like this require that the tag fields exist in the first place. Another reason to keep your tags ship-shape!
Achtung: die aktuelle Version (Beta 4) verlangt von allen Komponenten (genauer: Panels) neu kompiliert zu werden, das kann je nach Lust und Zeit des jeweiligen Entwicklers etwas dauern. Greift falls dies noch nicht geschehen sein sollte (dazugehörigen Thread lesen) zu einer älteren Version von Columns UI zurück.
Einstellung Control which device bietet zwei Optionen
- foobar2000 internal: Vorteil ist die unabhängige Lautstärkeregelung für foobar, Nachteil die Verzögerung durch Buffering/DSP Latency - Wave: Lautstärkeänderungen werden sofort wirksam, regelt aber alle anderen Programme gleich mit
- "Playlist find" (im Screenshot zu sehen) wird per <a href='http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=26475' target='_blank'>foo_playlistfind.dll</a> eingebunden - Webradio-Buffer-Status (einfache Progressbar) kann ebenfalls in den Panels angezeigt werden
- Panel für UI Columns - zeigt eine im Albumordner vorhandene folder.jpg an - erste überhaupt funktionierende Version, viele bereits geplante Features fehlen noch
Insgesamt erreicht foobar2000 nicht zuletzt durch UI Columns und die vielen Panels bald eine Dimension die alle anderen Player vom Funktionsumfang her deutlich in den Schatten stellen kann. Ursprünglich "innovative" iTunes-Features wie das Eingabefeld zur Suche, Rating- und Coveranzeige sind kein Problem mehr. Die Flexibilität von Album List oder Database Explorer schlagen jede über eine Baumansicht realisierte Darstellung eines Musikarchivs die ich je gesehen hab. Die lang vermisste Lautstärkeregelung im Player-Fenster ist nun auch endlich da.
Die neu hinzugekommene Möglichkeit, Panels in Tabs abzulegen, verbessert die Bedienung spürbar. Der gesamte linke Bereich lässt sich mit einem Klick auf den Bildschirmrand (Vollbild) bzw. auf den Bereich zwischen Fensterrahmen und Panel/Playlist. öffnen und schließen. Wer diese Features aus Opera kennt, wird sie auch bei foobar2000 schnell nicht mehr missen wollen.
Anmerkung: Einen kompletten Artikel zu schreiben würde momentan keinen Sinn machen, da sich alle Komponenten in der Entwicklung befinden und ich nur eine Momentaufnahme erstellen könnte, die nach wenigen Tagen oder Wochen ohnehin wieder überholt sein würde. Außerdem bestehen derzeit Abhängigkeiten zwischen den Columns UI Komponenten in dem Sinne, dass alle weiteren Entwickler ihre neu kompilieren müssen, damit sie mit der aktuellen Version funktionieren. Das ist nicht in jedem Fall sofort geschehen und lässt bei einigen (z.B. Album Art Anzeige) schon ein paar Tage auf sich warten - ohne dem Entwickler einen Vorwurf machen zu wollen, er macht es schließlich ehrenamtlich.
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Suche nach Bilddateien durch Tags
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<option value="22"> - Audiokompression und Gesellschaft </option>
<option value="4"> - Audioformate und Qualitätsdiskussionen </option>
<option value="23"> ---- Vorstellung der einzelnen Audioformate </option>
<option value="17"> ---- Hörtests und Qualitäts-/Einstellungsfragen </option>
<option value="29"> ---- Geschwindigkeits-Tests </option>
<option value="5"> - Grundlagen und Hintergrundwissen </option>
<option value='-1'>Das eigene Musikarchiv</option>
<option value="15"> - Allgemeine Diskussionen um Musikarchive </option>
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<option value="6"> - Einlesen von Audio-CDs und anderen Medien </option>
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Look around. Play with stuff. Experiment. Right-click on something you've never right-clicked on before. Browse the preferences window. Read the forums. Study titleformat_help.html. Have fun. Don't forget to listen to music.
Intermediate Use
Basic Color Codes
Click on the "Colour" tab within the "Columns" tab of the Columns UI preferences. It is empty. If you want to customize the colors used in a column, you would put the color codes here and check the "Use custom colour spec" box above.
Beneath the text box you will see a six-character hex code with a block character on either side of it:
0080FF
This is what a color code looks like. To get a color code for a specific color, click on the "..." button, which will pop-up a palette and return the color you choose in the same gray box, ready to be copied and pasted.
The way you format colors is given by clicking the "Tools" button, then by clicking "String help." Concentrate on the first four items, which are required in every color code string:
text|selected text|background|selected background
For example, if I wanted my "Artist" column to display red text on white background when not selected, and yellow text on blue background when selected, I would use this format:
(red color code)|(yellow color code)|(white color code)|(blue color code)
The proper color code would then be:
0000FF|00FFFF|FFFFFF|FF0000
Note that unlike most other applications, Foobar uses a hexadecimal BGR color scheme, which means that if you use any alternate color pickers you will need to switch the first and last two characters. (Example: FF0080 (magenta) in Photoshop should be changed to 8000FF in Foobar)
The block character may instead be represented by $char(3), as in:
$char(3)0000FF$char(3)
You may also represent color codes as RGB values using this format:
$rgb(255,128,0)
These alternate codes are useful when the block character is unavailable or becomes problematic (as it does in Firefox).
Advanced TAGZ
Album List & Album List Panel
The Album List extension (foo_albumlist) comes as a part of the default Foobar package. This extension allows you to sort your music a variety of ways, each displaying it in a hierarchical tree format. While Album List comes by default and can be used without the Columns UI, the Album List Panel extension (foo_uie_albumlist) improves on it in many ways.
Usage of Album List
The Album list sorts music through a variety of sort strings. To get the music to display, you must enable the database by going to preferences/database. By default, Albumlist comes with a handful of "views," which when selected show different layouts of your collection. All of these views are fully customizable with TAGZ, and additional views can be added or removed in the preferences. When making a new view using TAGZ, keep in mind that each branch is represented by a single pipe ("|") character. It is important to note that the TAGZ string will be split up by these pipes, meaning that each section must be valid TAGZ code by itself. For example:
Assuming that the intended behavior was for %album artist% to have a different string than the regular artist, you will have to put an $if() statement in every section:
Replaygain calculates the average volume of either a track (track gain) or an album (album gain) and uses this information to properly adjust the volume of tracks, that are mastered at different volume levels, during playback. This will make sure that you will have a similar volume levels on all of your tracks or albums without loosing any dynamic range of your music. In the case of Album Gain, it will even make sure that more quiet tracks of an album will sound more quiet and tracks that where meant to be louder, louder. As you can probably already tell, Album Gain would probably be the best way to make use of Replaygain. For more details, check the Replaygain wiki page.
Setting it up is realtively easy. Simply select all the tracks you want to Replaygain in your playlist and you will be presented with several options:
Scan per file track gain This will scan the selection and will add Replaygain values file by file, meaning that the difference in loudness of files coming from the same album is not preserved. This would be the recommended way of scanning tracks of wich you don't own the entire Album. (If you only have a few files of an Album, but they come from the same source (rip), I would also recommend using Album gain.
Scan selection as album Not that hard to guess, using this option, you will have to select all the tracks that belong to one album and scan them. The difference in loudness between quiet and loud tracks will be left intact.
Scan selection as multiple albums using album field In case all your files are properly tagged this would probably be the easiest way to initially set up Replaygain. It will scan all selected files and properly gain them album by album using the album info found in the file tag.
Replaygaining your files will not alter them in any way. It stores all the information it needs into the file tags or Foobars database and the actual file is not changed what so ever. The whole process is obviously fully reversible by simply removing the Replaygain info from the file. (Or simply disabling Replaygain during playback). Check your playback preferences, for all playback options considering Replaygain
Replaygain can also be used when creating mix cd's with Foobars diskwriter. Simply enable it in the diskwriter preferences to make sure you get nicely balanced compilations without annoyingly large differences in volume levels.
Note that Replaygain will in a lot of cases also prevent your files from clipping, since it usually lowers the playback volume of very loudly mastered tracks. Whereas this is not the main intention of Replaygain ( volume levelling is), this comes as a nice side effect to some people. You even have the option to scale down tracks that still clip after applying Replaygain using the peak info (again, check your preferences for this option).
Last but not least, I will mention the two preamps in the Playback preferences. Except if you know exactly what you are doing, it is not recommended to raise the output of the preamps above the default 0.0dB in any way. However you can use these to slightly compensate for the difference between replaygained and unreplaigained Tracks. Simply estimate your average Replaygain level and lower the preamp for files without Replaygain info by that value. I found -8dB to work quite well for me. This obviously should not be used to compensate for not properly Replaygaining your tracks, but definetaly will protect your ears and your equipment when coming across tracks that miss Replaygain info.
To place panels above the playlist, check "List all toolbars" in the "Other" tab of the Columns UI preferences. When checked, right-clicking on the toolbar will give you the option of placing panels on the toolbar. If a panel appears "squashed," it is because it needs to have a minimum height set in its preferences. If the panel extension has no minimum height setting, you may place it in a panel stack, and set a minimum height via the panel stack options.
Two Tabbed Panel Stacks in One Sidebar/Toolbar
While holding shift: Right-click on sidebar/toolbar, click "Layout > Tabbed Panel Stack"
Handy Strings
Standardize my PLAY_DATE and PLAY_TIME fields
LAST_PLAYED has been developed as a standard to replace the widely variable PLAY_DATE and PLAY_TIME usages. Use these Masstagger scripts to convert your specific format to this new standard. More info about LAST_PLAYED available here.
!!!NOTE!!!: Be VERY CAREFUL when applying any of the scripts below. Be sure to test the script on one file before running it on your whole library.
If your current time/datestamp is in the format...
PLAY_DATE = DDMMYY, PLAY_TIME = HHMMSS (24hr) (this is foo_playcount's default format) ...download scripts from this thread post.
PLAY_DATE = YYYYMMDD, PLAY_TIME = HHMMSS (24hr) ...download script from this thread post.
Pad tracknumber with leading zeros ("1" becomes "01")
$num(%tracknumber%,2)
Alternating Stripes in the playlist (Like iTunes)
Go to Preferences/Display/Columns UI/Globals/Colour Tab, enter this under the background section of your color string (text|selected text|background|selected background|...)
This is if you want to show which kind of Replaygain you have. This string will show an "A" if album gain has been applied, a "T" if Track gain is applied, and a red "X" if there is no replaygain data in the file.
Achtung: die aktuelle Version (Beta 4) verlangt von allen Komponenten (genauer: Panels) neu kompiliert zu werden, das kann je nach Lust und Zeit des jeweiligen Entwicklers etwas dauern. Greift falls dies noch nicht geschehen sein sollte (dazugehörigen Thread lesen) zu einer älteren Version von Columns UI zurück.
Einstellung Control which device bietet zwei Optionen
- foobar2000 internal: Vorteil ist die unabhängige Lautstärkeregelung für foobar, Nachteil die Verzögerung durch Buffering/DSP Latency - Wave: Lautstärkeänderungen werden sofort wirksam, regelt aber alle anderen Programme gleich mit
- "Playlist find" (im Screenshot zu sehen) wird per <a href='http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=26475' target='_blank'>foo_playlistfind.dll</a> eingebunden - Webradio-Buffer-Status (einfache Progressbar) kann ebenfalls in den Panels angezeigt werden
- Panel für UI Columns - zeigt eine im Albumordner vorhandene folder.jpg an - erste überhaupt funktionierende Version, viele bereits geplante Features fehlen noch
Insgesamt erreicht foobar2000 nicht zuletzt durch UI Columns und die vielen Panels bald eine Dimension die alle anderen Player vom Funktionsumfang her deutlich in den Schatten stellen kann. Ursprünglich "innovative" iTunes-Features wie das Eingabefeld zur Suche, Rating- und Coveranzeige sind kein Problem mehr. Die Flexibilität von Album List oder Database Explorer schlagen jede über eine Baumansicht realisierte Darstellung eines Musikarchivs die ich je gesehen hab. Die lang vermisste Lautstärkeregelung im Player-Fenster ist nun auch endlich da.
Die neu hinzugekommene Möglichkeit, Panels in Tabs abzulegen, verbessert die Bedienung spürbar. Der gesamte linke Bereich lässt sich mit einem Klick auf den Bildschirmrand (Vollbild) bzw. auf den Bereich zwischen Fensterrahmen und Panel/Playlist. öffnen und schließen. Wer diese Features aus Opera kennt, wird sie auch bei foobar2000 schnell nicht mehr missen wollen.
Anmerkung: Einen kompletten Artikel zu schreiben würde momentan keinen Sinn machen, da sich alle Komponenten in der Entwicklung befinden und ich nur eine Momentaufnahme erstellen könnte, die nach wenigen Tagen oder Wochen ohnehin wieder überholt sein würde. Außerdem bestehen derzeit Abhängigkeiten zwischen den Columns UI Komponenten in dem Sinne, dass alle weiteren Entwickler ihre neu kompilieren müssen, damit sie mit der aktuellen Version funktionieren. Das ist nicht in jedem Fall sofort geschehen und lässt bei einigen (z.B. Album Art Anzeige) schon ein paar Tage auf sich warten - ohne dem Entwickler einen Vorwurf machen zu wollen, er macht es schließlich ehrenamtlich.
funktioniert nun mit aktuellen Columns UI Versionen
stark verbesserte Bildqualität beim Verkleinern von Bildern
Suche nach Bilddateien durch Tags
PNG-Unterstützung
Das Flackern das nun beim Trackwechsel oder beim Verschieben des Fensters auftritt ist dem Entwickler bekannt, wird wahrscheinlich mit einer der nächsten Versionen behoben.
<option value='sj_help'>Hilfe</option>
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<optgroup label="Forum auswählen"><option value='-1'>Audiokompression</option>
<option value="9"> - Neuigkeiten im Bereich Digital Audio </option>
<option value="22"> - Audiokompression und Gesellschaft </option>
<option value="4"> - Audioformate und Qualitätsdiskussionen </option>
<option value="23"> ---- Vorstellung der einzelnen Audioformate </option>
<option value="17"> ---- Hörtests und Qualitäts-/Einstellungsfragen </option>
<option value="29"> ---- Geschwindigkeits-Tests </option>
<option value="5"> - Grundlagen und Hintergrundwissen </option>
<option value='-1'>Das eigene Musikarchiv</option>
<option value="15"> - Allgemeine Diskussionen um Musikarchive </option>
<option value="26"> - Software zur Verwaltung von Musikarchiven </option>
<option value="28"> ---- Software-Vorstellungen </option>
<option value="27" selected="selected"> ---- foobar2000: Anleitungen und Notizen </option>
<option value="6"> - Einlesen von Audio-CDs und anderen Medien </option>
<option value='-1'>Organisatorisches</option>
<option value="3"> - Inhaltliche und konzeptionelle Angelegenheiten </option>
</optgroup>
A rather extensive FAQ is available at the SH/SC Wiki.
Encouraged Tag Standards
FIELD_NAME [format] (component)
ALBUM ARTIST [e.g., Various Artists, The Foobar Collective] (none) Notes: Field name is ALBUM ARTIST, with no underscore. Tag should exist if and only if an album is by multiple artists, and be contained in every track. Track-specific artists should be entered in the ARTIST tag, never in the TITLE tag. (more about this standard)
