Exporting
iCDc can export to virtually any text-based format available. You can create your own export format easily by typing just a few words. Select Export from the File menu. A standard Save dialog will be displayed. Below the file browser, a pop-up menu is shown and next to it a button with an arrow pointing down. You can select from four pre-defined formats: HTML, HTML Multi, XML and Tab delimited.
If you want to change one of the existing formats, click on the button next to the pop-up list. The Export Format view will be displayed.
To the right you see a preview of how the format will look like. When done editing information in any of the fields will update the preview to display the output.
In the general view, you define what kind of export you want to do: Single-file or multi-file. Multi-file will let you export a main list and a separate file for each CD. You can also set the Text encoding, if you want to export the selected CDs or all displayed CDs and also add "Replace Words". Replace words will search all properties for the occurrence of the words you define and replace them with whatever you wish. This can be handy when exporting to formats that do not allow certain characters, such as XML where & must be &, < must be < and > must be >.
Switching to the Main Format tab, this is where you enter the Template of your document. iCDc looks for certain tags in the template when exporting. See Export Format Tags for a reference. All tags are available on a pop-up menu if you right-click in the editor.
The Entry Format tab is where you enter your template for Multi-file export, the template for the separate CD files.
All formats must include the <!--body--> - <!--/body--> tag combination. Between these tags you enter the CD tags such as <!--artist--> and <!--album-->. Correspondingly for tracks, the track tags (e.g. <!--tracktitle--> and <!--tracklength-->) must be inside a <!--track--> - <!--/track-->
You can also group CDs by genre and/or artist. This is achieved by entering the format within a <!--genres--> - <!--/genres--> combination or <!--artists--> - <!--/artists--> combination.