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The MediaBay
The Attribute Inspector
Editing attributes in the Results list
You can also edit attributes directly in the Results list. This allows you for example to
assign tags to a number of loop files.
Proceed as follows:
1. In the Results list, select the file(s) for which you want to change an attribute value.
2. Click in the column for the value you want to change and make the desired
settings.
As in the Attribute Inspector, you can choose a value from a pop-up menu, enter
the new value directly, etc.
Editing the attributes of 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 a large amount of files in one go may take quite a while.
This operation is executed in the background, so that you can continue with your work
as usual. By looking at the Attribute Counter above the Results list, you can see how
many files still have to be updated.
• If you close Cubase before the Attribute Counter has gone down to zero, a dialog
with a progress bar is displayed, indicating how long the updating process will
take. You can choose to abort this process.
In this case only the files that were updated before you clicked “Abort” will have
the new attribute values.
Editing the attributes of 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 the
file format could restrict write operations by the MediaBay.
In the MediaBay, the write protection status of files is shown as an attribute in the
Attribute Inspector and in the Write Protection column in the Results list.
However, there may be cases when you want to define attributes for write-protected
files. For example, you might want to apply attributes to the content files that came
with Cubase or you are working on the same files with several people and cannot
modify these files. In these scenarios, you still want to be able to find files quickly and
improve your workflow.
Therefore, it is possible to change the attribute values of write-protected files in the
MediaBay. These changes are not written to disk though and occur in the MediaBay
only.
• When you specify attribute values for a file that is write-protected, this is reflected
in the Pending Tags column next to the Write Protection column in the Results list.
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 corresponding 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.
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This is only possible if “Allow Editing in Results List” is activated, see “Preferences”
on page 416.