Tags editor

How to manage tags?

Ultarstar stores metadata about the song (e.g. artist, title, tempo) in the form of tags. Different versions of the game may understand different sets of tags. The common ones are described in the tags section.

Day to day users do not really need to concern themselves with tags when working with Karedi. The application lets you change the standard metadata values from the menu hiding the technical details of the txt format.

Editing tags values

To learn how to edit song metadata in a convenient way from the menu, please go to this page.

Displaying tags values

If you are a more advanced user who likes to work on tags directly you can see the current list of tags with values in Tags editor.

Tag editor is located above the main editor, on the right side. By default lyrics editor tab is selected. To manage tags you need to switch to the second tab by clicking on the Tags tab caption.

Here you can see the full list of currently defined tags:

Adding a new tag

You can add any tag that is not already present in 2 ways:

1. Go to menu Tags -> Add New...

2. Right click somewhere in the tag editor and choose Add option from the context menu

Either way you will see a popup in which you can add any tag you want.

If given tag already exists, its value will be simply updated.

Standard tags will be suggested and validated so for example if you choose START tag, which must be a number, you won't be able to input letters as a value.

The set of suggested tag keys will depend on the song's UltraStar format version defined by VERSION tag.

Some tags like e.g. LANGUAGE have value suggestions:

Since UltraStar format version 1.1.0 some tags support multiple values:

Editing tag value

Standard tags are validated also on edit

To edit a tag double click on its value.

and confirm your change by pressing enter key.

Editing numeric tag value using mouse scroll

For tags that accept numeric values you can use mouse scroll to adjust the value. To do so:

• select the tag you want to edit

• hover mouse over the value:
• use mouse scroll to adjust

  • ctrl modifier will speed up the change by 10

  • shift modifier will speed up the change by 100

  • ctrl + shift modifiers will speed up the change by 1000

Edit via scroll is active even if the tag editor is not focused:

Removing a tag

To remove a tag:

1. Select it in tags editor and press delete key on your keyboard, or

2. Right-click on the tag in tags editor and choose Delete option from the context menu.