URL Editor

Access: Click URL column cell button (Editor 2), or double-click the cell (depending upon Preferences setting)

URLs in ID3v2 tags

For MP3s, the ID3v2 Technical Specification allows for multiple user-defined URLs to exist in a single tag. The only restriction is that no two URL fields may have exactly the same Description. A single URL may be entered directly into a tag's URL cell in the Main Editor. Note that an empty URL cell (or one that contains non-URL data) can be left-clicked just like any other text cell to select its contents. A cell with a valid URL inside, however, appears blue and underlined, and when clicked will send the URL to your web browser for execution. To select the contents of a cell containing a "hot link," right-click it first to deactivate the link, then left-click it to select its contents. To add additional URLs, or to edit the optional Description field, click the "ellipse button" that appears to the right in this cell when the field is selected (subeditors can also be set to execute by double-clicking a cell - see topic Preferences):

This brings up the tag's URL contents in a stand-alone editor:

Click the More URLs button to access other URLs within the tag:

Click the "push-button" on the bottom panel to turn web links active in the editor. Active links are turned blue and become underlined, and a "pointing hand" cursor appears when the mouse is placed over one. Clicking on an active link sends the address to your web browser for execution. Right-clicking it temporarily deactivates it to allow editing.

Multiple URLs

Tags that contain multiple URLs, or a URL that's hidden from view, are flagged by a small red triangle appearing in the upper right corner of the URL data cell . Hold the mouse pointer over a cell with this indicator and a hint-like box appears reporting the number of URLs present in the tag. For URLs that support multiple instances, use this Editor's "Add" button to insert an additional URL into a tag, or the "Delete" button to remove the one currently shown and selected.

In the Main Editor, a Delete operation via the Single-Tag Popup Menu (or the Delete key) operates only on the first instance of the displayed URL type, if multiple instances are present. Removing a URL from a tag that has more than one instance of a type results in the second one taking its place in the Editor's cell. To remove all instances at one time, use a Cut operation without doing a subsequent Paste, or use the Delete function on the Multi-Tag Popup Menu, or choose the "Remove All URLs" option on the URL Editor's main menu.