# Beatport Options

The options panel allows you to specify how to search and what metadata to import.

You can search using metadata stored in the track (Title and Artist) or by the track's associated filename. Note that in order to validate a match, Yate will also use the Album, Track and Audio Duration metadata in your tracks.

All Beatport tracks are associated with a Track Id. If you already have the Track Ids, matching is typically 100% accurate. The Access Beatport action statement describes the steps Yate takes to find the Track Ids. By default, the Use Track Ids if available option is selected. If you uncheck the option, Yate will not use the Track Ids while searching.

Note that when saving the Track Id as a UDTI named Beatport Track Id, Yate will also write a UFID representing the same data. The Beatport Pro application uses this UFID to preselect matches when synching. The description field of the UFID is http://www.beatport.com except for MPEG-4 files where it is empty.

The Only import to empty items option does as the name implies. Existing fields will not be overwritten. The options is treated as 'Only import to empty items or if the value differs' when importing Track Ids and the associated UFIDs.

When not searching by Track Ids, lots of matches may be returned for a search request. Yate only processes the first 150. You can trim the number of results by specifying a length difference cutoff. If specified, the cutoff is the number of seconds that the durations associated with the tracks and matches can differ. For example if 2 sec is selected all matches where the duration differs more than 2 seconds from the track's actual duration will be rejected.

Returned artist metadata can have more than one value. If you leave the Join sequence field empty, Yate will use the multi value delimiter as the join sequence (typically ;;;). You can specify an alternate sequence if you wish.

If you select the Automatically select matches option, Yate will automatically mark the match with the highest score for Import. Be careful here as the highest score does not guarantee a correct match.

The choices available for metadata to be imported are fairly self explanatory. Note that the Catalog number imported is a label's catalog number for the album, not the track.

You can elect to automatically run a specified action after importing.

In order to stop the automatic downloading of matches when the Beatport Importer is opened, you can select the Always show when starting option.