# Application Preferences

The Preferences window provides access to Yate's settings. To test a setting you can have the Preferences and main window open at the same time.

You can drag and drop the preference sections so that they are organized however you wish. The context menu for the list of preferences contains a single item which will resort the sections so that General is first and the others are sorted in increasing alphabetical order.

Before we delve into the individual settings which are available, let's take a few moments to describe the approach taken with preferences in Yates. Preferences may be exported and imported by individual items, by item type and in total. This was done so that the preferences could be backed up and so that you could share individual components with others.

If you decide that you want to restore any built in items after resetting or after they were manually removed, do so via the Yate>Reset built in items menu. This menu gives complete control over each type of built in item.

Yate>Reset Preferences will restore all of your user settings to their default values.

Preferences are exported by type via the Yate>Export Preferences... menu item. Basically, you name a file to receive the output and select which item types you want to export. You can select or clear all items via the table's context menu.

When everything is checked, you're exporting all of Yate's preferences. You can remove whatever item types you don't want to export. The Settings element refers to all of Yate's settings not represented elsewhere in the list. This includes all individual preferences, the open/close mode for the main window list of files, and the visibility and position of columns in the file list. A finer level of control, down to the individual item may be achieved in specific preference panes.

Importing works much the same. You import via the Yate>Import Preferences... menu item. You select the file you want to import from and what item types you want to import. You can also import a Yate preference file by dragging it to the main window's file list area. What and how elements get imported in this case is determined by the Preferences - File List - Dragged preference file import settings - Configure option.

When importing, you also choose to overwrite or add imported items when a different item of the same name already exists.

You can view a summary of the contents of a preference file via the Yate>Examine Preference Contents... menu item. The summary describes in any of the import/export types are contained in the file. For compound named items, a list of the items is included. You can also perform this function by dragging a Yate preference file to the main window's file list area while holding down the Shift key.

The following links provide access to each Preference section.

AcoustID

Actions

AcousticBrainz

APE Mappings

Apple Apps

Artwork

Audio

Credits Editor

Cue Sheets

Databases

Discogs

Exceptions

Export Sets

File List

File to Tag

FLAC/OGG Mappings

General

Lists

Lyrics

m3u Files

MusicBrainz

Rename

Replacements

Runtime Settings

Search

Shortcuts

System Variables

Tag Sets

Video