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The window to the right of the B rowser pane is called the File List. I f you have selected a source in the Browser th at contains
music (such as the Database or a n individual folder), the songs contained the rein will be listed here. The File List not onl y shows
you the name of the song, but also shows the artist name , album name, trac k number, genre, and other elds contained within
the song’s ID3 tag. These additional c ategories can help you nd song with greater ef ciency.
Note: While ID3 tags will support storage of the informa tion listed above, it is common to nd music les with some (if not all) of the ID3
elds blank. Even if the music le does not conta in information for all categories, you are still able to  ll in the missing info by hand in order
to aid in searching through your l es.
Editing Fields
Torq will extr act the releva nt song information from the le’s ID3 tag i n order to populate the elds of the File List a s
described above. You are fre e to edit the informatio n shown in the File List simply by double-click ing a eld and typing in
new data.
It is important to note that Torq does not update the song’s ID3 tag with your edits. Instead, your edited elds are stored in
a special le with the sa me name as the song, but with the exten sion “.tqd” at the end. This is the Torq Data le. By saving
your edits to the TQD le, Torq can save your changes much faster (changing an ID3 tag requires re-writing the entire audio
le, something that could affect sys tem performance during live use). Additionally, the audio le could become corrupte d
during the re-write proces s. So, Torq leaves your precious music les untouched by saving data to t he TQD le.
Artist/Song Fi lename Swap
Occasionally th e ID3 tag informatio n of a song (described above) may contain incompl ete song information. In the worst
case, the ID3 tag may not even contain the name of the song or the artist who wrote it . When this happens, Torq will list
“blank” audio les (they will look bl ank in the File Lis t, but you’ll still be able to load the m and play them). Obviousl y, it’s
almost impossible to t ell which les you’re working with in this situation, so Torq will allow you to swap out the Song and
Artist categories w ith one larger Filename category:
1. Right-click (CTRL-click on M ac) on the Artist or Song category headi ng.
2. The Artist or Song cat egory will then be replace d with a single “Filename” category that will display the lename
of the song rather than th e artist and song information contained in t he ID3 tag.
3. To revert back to the Ar tist and/or Song categories , right-click (CTRL-click on Mac) on the “Filena me” category
again.