Artist, title & filenames
The second step of the new song wizard
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The second step of the new song wizard
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In the second step of new song wizard you have to specify the artist and the title of the song:
Artist and title will be used to automatically generate the expected names for the other files. Please read about song format first if you don't know what kind of files Ultrastar recognizes.
Karedi will try to fill in artist and title fields based on the filename of the audio chosen in the last step. It will split the filename on the dash symbol so if you follow the stardard "Artist - Title" convention while naming the audio file, all data in this step will be filled automatically.
If there is no dash in the filename, Karedi will put the whole filename as the title.
There are several different versions of the format specification, you can learn more about them on the official format website. Newer versions will have more features, but may be unsupported by some apps.
If you specify a version, Karedi will allow you to use only the features supported by that version and will perform enhanced validation to make sure the result is compliant with the specification. As long as the target game software supports the chosen version, your song will work perfectly.
If you choose version "None", you will be able to freely use features from various versions including deprecated or custom ones. However, this freedom comes with more responsibility - you need to make sure yourself that the features used in the song are supported by target apps.
For novices it is recommended to just use the newest stable version.
By default tags for video & background are enabled by default and vocals & instrumental are disabled, because the first two are supported by all software and the latter two not necessarily - they are only available since Ultarstar format specification version 1.1.0.
You can disable video or background tag if you wish by deselecting the appropriate checkbox:
As a result the tags related to them will not be generated. So even if you later add a video or background file to the song's directory it won't be found by the game. Unless you of course add the appropriate tag later. Adding filename related tags can be done via the rename mechanism which is explained here.
Although you may disable both video and background, it is recommended to always add at least one of the two.
Vocals & instrumental files are entirely optional, but if you can obtain such versions (e.g. by using some AI software) it is worth adding them.
There are two naming conventions for files which contain the image of the song's cover. You can either add a [CO] suffix or not.
The suffix is necessary when you also add the background - in such case you have two image files with similar names - the suffixes [CO] and [BG] differentiate them. However if there is no background - you could theoretically skip the [CO] suffix.
You can disable it by deselecting the [CO] checkbox:
It is recommended to just leave it though. It's more clear what this file is and it makes adding a background later easier.
Usually you should have no reason to change the filenames. Just stick to the defaults
By default the filenames are created based on the song's title & artist:
You will be able to freely edit it then:
If you have to disable automatic filename at all, then try to change the "Filename" field first - in such case all files will have consistent names, simply not following the standard "Artist - Title" convention (it may be necessary if artist name or song's title contains some characters forbidden in filenames).
However you may also manually adjust name of any file separately (like the cover's filename in the picture above).
To re-enable auto generation just click on the icon again.
Click OK to move to the next step.
You may disable auto-generation by clicking on the icon next to the value you want to override.
