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Sometimes you want to really, really get organized in your collection of music and you want to full control over what categories you want your songs to appear in and that kind of thing. And that is where editing the song information comes in quite handy. What we can do to edit the information is to simply right click or if you have a one-button mouse, you're going to control click and choose get info. The song appears in it's own dialog box, as you see here it says Better Man, this is the name of the song and we can get a summary by clicking on the summary button just to see what's already embedded within the song information itself. So we can see the recording format, the size of the song and how many times it was played, the last time it was played and that kind of thing. We can click on info and we can change the name of the song if you like, so if you want a space here, you just hit a space and you can also change the artist, so if you don't want Soul Child here we get rid of that, you can see the year the song was recorded in and you can see that this is the track information. This is the fourth out of twelve tracks and you can put in album, artist if you want to, if you want to put Music here you can put his name and you can also create your own grouping. You see the composer information and you can put your own comments here. You can also choose, choose the genre that you would like this to be categorized in. So we can put it in podcast, metal, which it's not, R & B and other kinds of things. And we can also click here to say this is a part of a compilation. We can also click on sorting and do the same thing. So we can sort this by artist, name album and other information so you can use this information as a part of your sorting criteria. Once again, you can change the name, the artist and other information. We can go on options and we can change the volume, we chance choose an equalizer preset so you can change how this song is going to sound to you, so can choose it to be an R & B so it has a more R & B feel to it, you can change the ratings and you can manipulate the start and stop time. You can also remember the playback position, which is very handy so if you, you know, want to resume your playback, it will remember where you left off. You can also put your own lyrics here. So if you want to go online, for example, go to Google.com and type in Better Man by Music and find the lyrics and copy and past them right here so you can do your karaoke and sing along to it and I would do that for you but I really don't want to hurt anyone's ears. I'm a much better animator than I am a singer, although I was in a off-Broadway production one time when I was younger. Ok, that's a lie. But as you can see, you can put lyrics here and you can also adjust the album artwork, which I'll talk about in the full title, how you can change the artwork here that you're looking at when the song is actually playing. So you have a lot of control over the information that's going to be contained with your song. It will help you sort your information and also give you the ability to put your lyrics there and other options so that you can really organize your collection to your own liking.

Tutorial Information

Course: QuickStart! - Apple iLife 08
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33833
ISBN:
Release Date: 2007-12-14
Duration: 1 hrs / 19 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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