Imploded Software

Helium is very configurable and you can easily access the most common settings via Tools > Options.

General

• Language allows you to change language in Helium
• Active tag editor allows you to select the default tag editor which should be started when the edit tags command is executed via hotkeys or from context-menus
• Use global hotkeys will enable media keys for playback
• Enable automatic update checks will perform an update check upon each startup, if selected
• Export playlists with relative paths will export playlists with realtive paths (M3U, M3U8 and PLS). If not selected absolute paths will be used.
• Incude extended information when exporting playlists will add tag-meta data in exported playlists, if check marked.    
• Center the active track in the Play queue will keep the active track in the Play queue in the middle, if selected (usable for long Play queues)
• Use sort order will use the sort order fields for all sort operations if enabled. Applies to albums, artists, titles and albumartists
• Show sort order values is only available if Use sort order is selected. If selected, Helium will display the sort order fields, otherwise it will display the non-sort fields. For example, if Show sort order fields is NOT selected, 'The Beatles' will now display as 'The Beatles' but sort under the letter 'B' as oppose to being displayed as 'Beatles, The' if selected.
• Words used for auto sort order defines a list of words that are used when automatically setting sort order using the tag editors. For example if "the" is included in this list and an artist starts with the, Helium will automatically set the sort order to "Artistname, the" if auto-set sort order is enabled in the Tag editor.
• Save album artist with full external compatibility will force album artist to be saved in the TPE2 tag frame (Band/Orchestra) instead of TXXX tag frames. This is because other applications like MP3Tag and iTunes for example only accepts reading of album artist from the TPE2 tag frame, thus Band/Orchestra will be disabled in Tag editors and the values entered in Album artist will be saved to this tag frame.
• Save ID3 v2.x tags as version 2.3, if check marked, ID3v2 tags will be saved as version 2.3 ,otherwise 2.4 will be used. When active, certain tag frames such as release year and recording year will not be available. We do not recommend that this setting is active unless you have an external dependency which requires strict v2.3 tags.
• Save play counter to tags (MP3 files only) will save the play counter when updated during playback to tags if selected. This applies to MP3 files only.
• Default script will allow you to define which script that should be executed when the Execute default script hotkey is invoked
• Render artist and album detail page statistics (can make rendering slower) will render extra information for these page types when selected. Please note that this might have a performance impact, especially with Sql Compact databases.
• Auto show/hide Now playing when starting Visualization in docked/full mode will control the visibility of the Now playing pane when using visualizations.
• Use extended logging will log much more data when enabled. Avoid to use this option unless you are working with a support issue.
• Use paranthesis for multiple artists will display multiple artists within a parenthesis block if enabled. Please note that this also affects tagging.
• Use year compatibility fallbacks will fallback to release year if release year fields are not read. This setting can be set if year is not read properly from your files (e.g. tagged using older tagging formats)

• {{country}} - the country the artist/group is from
• {{borned}} - the borned name of the artist
• {{formed}} - the date the group/artist was formed
• {{disbanded}} - the date the groupe/artist was disbanded
• {{artisturl}} - the Url to the artist/group webpage
• {{albumcollections}} - the album collections the specific album is contained in

Special settings for Releases view:

• Show tracklist in thumbnails/card mode will display a tracklist below the releases view which will be updated with the tracks from selected release, if the setting is active.
• Show track list in split mode will show a track list showing the tracks for the selected album instead of displaying the full album details. This applies to split mode only.

Special settings for Artists view:

• Show track list will display a tracklist below the artist view which will be updated with the tracks from selected artist, if the setting is active.
• Show track list in split mode will show a track list showing the tracks for the selected artist  instead of displaying the full artist details. This applies to split mode only.

Special settings for Tracks view only:

• Hide texts for columns with icons will hide the descriptive text for columns that display an icon such as file type, quality and more.

Special settings for Labels view only:

• Show track list will display a tracklist below the labels view which will be updated with the tracks from selected label, if the setting is active.

Special settings for My computer view only:

• Scan subfolders will scan folders recursively if selected. If not selected only files from the selected folder will be read, not from its child folders.
• Save changes automatically will save changes made with the Quick editor directly when the selected file changes if this setting is active. If not, you will have to click the Apply button to save changes.

Special settings for Genres view only:

• Hide styles will hide the genre styles grouping if selected
• Collapse styles will collapse all genre styles by default if selected

Select the specific content type to edit from the top drop-down control at the top.