User Manual

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Adding files to the Audio Database
There are several ways to add files to a Database:
Using Add
1. Select Add from the Audio Database menu.
You can also press the right mouse button in the Location pane and select Add from the
menu that appears.
2. Select all files you want to open (for example using [Shift] and [Ctrl]) and
click Open.
The files appear in the List. Also, folders are added to the Location pane. These correspond
to the real folders that the files are in, on the disk.
By dragging a document
You can drag an entire Wave document into the Audio Database by using
the drag icon on the title bar of the Wave window.
Using Scan folder
This feature allows you to automatically search for and add files matching
certain criteria.
1. Select “Scan folder” from the Audio Database menu.
You can also press the right mouse button in the Location pane and select “Scan folder”
from the menu that appears.
2. Select a drive and a folder from which to start searching, and click OK.
This folder and all its subfolders will be searched.
3. In the dialog that appears, set up the desired criteria (see the following
pages for details).
Note that the search criteria dialog has three tabs for deciding which files to
add to the Audio Database – one for text criteria, one for file format criteria
and one for date and size criteria. For a file to be added, it must fulfill the
criteria set up in all three tabs.
The drag icon