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Home > Zoom Player > Advanced Options > Audio Tags (ID3)


An Introduction to Audio/Media Tags (Meta-Data)
MP3/OGM/MPC (and other) formats can contain information about the audio it carries within a special TAG. This tag can contain information such as title name, author, etc...

Since the video area isn't in use while audio is being played (in Media mode), Zoom Player can use the video area to display this information. Using the values below, you can determine how this information is displayed.

Enable TAG display
When this setting is disabled, no TAG information is displayed (at all).

Draw Text Background
By default, a background is drawn to better contrast the TAG text display against a picture background.

Draw Folder Image
Audio files often have an image (usually album/song covers) embedded or associated. With this setting enabled, the image will be used as a background to the TAG information display.

Hide folder image when hiding TAG
When hiding the TAG information automatically, you can choose if you also want the folder (album) image to hide as well.

Outline font
Weather the font should be outlined or not. Outlining the font is a bit slower but gives the font more visibility against image backgrounds.

TAG Display Position
You can have the TAG information displayed in one of nine positions on-screen.

Auto-Hide TAG Information time (seconds)
On some systems you wouldn't want the TAG information to burn into the screen. To prevent this, you can have the information hidden automatically after several seconds.

Enlarge Fullscreen TAG font by
By how much to enlarge the TAG font when Zoom Player is in Fullscreen mode.

Text Border Spacing (pixels)
The number of pixels used to space/frame the TAG text area.

Text "Left / Right" Spacing (pixels)
The number of pixel uses to space the right and left sections of the TAG display area.

Text Background Edge Spacing (pixels)
The distance (in pixels) from the edge of the screen where the TAG area is drawn.

Text Background Transparency (1-99%)
The transparency of the text background area overlayed over the folder image.

Text Background Color
The color used to draw the text background area.

Set Left Color
Clicking this button allows you to select the font color used for the left section of the TAG display.

Set Font Face
Clicking this button allows you to select the font face (type) used to display TAG data. When playing non-english content, you may want to select both the font and the Script language (the "script" pulldown list available for some fonts within the font selection dialog). You must select a proper script language to display non-english TAG information.

Set Right Color
Clicking this button allows you to select the font color used for the right section of the TAG display.