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Edit Artist/Group Information

This dialog contains controls to edit information about a specific artist such as an image of the artist, biography , home country, several types of relations to other artist/groups and more.

Use the Edit Artist Information tool

Editing biography
Other controls
Applying artist data to tags
Downloading Information
Editing artist relations
Editing Videos

Editing Artist/Group information

Enter or edit text for the artist's biography. The text can be formatted using the bold and italic buttons.

To format the text, select the text you would like to format and then click the desired formatting button. To remove all formatting from the selected text, right click the the selected text and click Remove Formatting context-menu item.

The links button enables you to create hyperlinks from words in the text to other Music Browser pages. You can create links to the following Music Browser pages:

Artist page
Album page
Genre page
Year page
Publisher page

Other controls

Here is a list of the information that can be added for an artist.

Artist Picture
This is a single artist - Select this option if the selected artist is a single artist (default)
This is a group/band - Select this option if the selected artist is a group
Born Name
Sort Order - Controls how this artist will be sorted.

Click the Auto Sort button to the right of the Sort Order field to automatically fill the Sort Order field with a calculated Sort name (e.g. if the artist name is 'The Beatles' and the Sort Order field is either empty or conatins 'The Beatles', clicking the Auto Sort button will change the field to 'Beatles, The'.
Alternatively, you can select a Sort Order name from the pull-down list to the right of the Auto Sort button.
Home Country
Webpage
Born/Formed
Died/Disbanded
Aka (Also Known As)
Group Member
Member Of

Apply artist data to tags

Click the Advanced > Apply... button to apply the following fields to tags for all files from the selected artist available in your Database:

Biography
Artist Picture
Artist Sort Order
Webpage

Download artist information from internet

Click the Download button to download artist data from the installed plug-ins.

Select which data you would like to download from the drop-down menu.

Editing artist relations

There are five types of artist relations available for editing from the edit artist dialog. Select the relation type you want to edit by clicking one of the tabs at the top.

The following artist relation types are available:

Similar artists
When you add a Similar Artist relation, then the target artist will also get a Similar Artist relation added for the originating artist.
Influenced By
When you add an Influenced By relation, then the target artist will get a Followers relation added for the originating artist.
Followers
When you add a Followers relation, then the target artist will get an Influenced By relation added for the originating artist.
See also
When you add a See Also relation, then the target artist will also get a See Also relation added for the originating artist.
Performed Songs By

To add a new relation, either enter the name of the artist in the edit-control (separate artists with newlines) or click the Get Artist... button to select a specific artist that exists in your database.

When downloading artist information, some of the plug-ins will fill in relations automatically for you.

Editing Videos

You can link YouTube videos to an artist/group. To link videos, click the Videos tab and then click Add Video from the bottom toolbar.

A new dialog will open where you will enter:

Title - The title of the video
YouTube URL - The URL to the video. The format of the URL is shown in the dialog.