Headings

• Title Title of the track.
• Comment You can input comments here and they will be saved and reloaded next time you open Zulu.
• Artist The artist who created the track.
• Album The album from which the track is from.
• Length Length of the track.
• Play Count How many times the track has been loaded into the decks.
• BPM (Beats per minute) value. This is only assigned after you have loaded and scanned the track in a deck, or if you have edited the BPM of the track before it has been placed in the deck. This value is stored each time you close Zulu.
• Load To Buttons to quickly load or unload the selected track into a deck with 1 click.
• Normalize Volume gain in decibels to increase (or decrease) loudness of a track.
• Feed to This indicates which deck this track will be fed to: deck A or deck B. By default this is off and can be turned on in the options.

Buttons

The buttons are located under the music list, at the bottom of the Zulu program window.

• Add Click the Add button to add music files to the list.
• << Click to toggle show and hide "File Browser".
• Search Enter a sequence of characters, the playlist is filtered to only show items with that sequence.
• Import Playlist Click the Import Playlist button to load your playlist from a XML file (custom Zulu format), M3U, WPL or PLS file. See Import and Export Playlists for more information on the supported files.
• Create Audio Playlist Click on the Create Audio Playlist button to add a new playlist. See Import and Export Playlists for more information on the supported files.

Additional Options

These options are available through the right-click menu.

• Add Music Files Adds tracks to library
• Add Folder as Search Path Adds all tracks in folder to library and adds the folder to the list of search paths
• Add Files from Folder Add tracks in folder to library but the folder is NOT added as a Search Path
• Add Playlist Adds the tracks from the playlist into the library
• Add To Deck Adds selected track to specified deck.
• Open Track location Opens the file location of the track.
• Edit BPM Opens the Edit BPM window allowing a custom BPM designation.
• Edit Comment Sets the comment column of the playlist.
• Edit Play Count Sets the Play Count column of the playlist.
• Edit with WavePad Opens the selected track with the Audio Editor, WavePad. Please note that this option locks Zulu until WavePad is closed. Once WavePad is closed, the track is reloaded with any changes that have been made.
• Add Selected Tracks to Playlist Add selected tracks to a playlist specified by select tracklist
• Create Playlist There are 3 options when creating a playlist:
  1. Empty Playlist Creates a playlist with no tracks
  2. Currently Selected Creates a playlist and add tracks to the list which are currently selected.
  3. Current List Creates a playlist and add tracks to the list which are currently in the list.
• Scan Selected tracks for BPM and Volume Normalize Gain Adds the selected tracks to the top of the list of tracks being scanned.
• Reset Volume Normalize Gain to calculated value Resets the tracks' gain to the calculated value or 0 if not calculated yet.
• Reset BPM to calculated value Resets the tracks' BPM to the calculated value.
• Set Feed To Deck for selected tracks Sets the Autoplay option of Feed To Deck if it has been enabled.
• Clear all files Deletes all the files.
• Remove File(s) Deletes all the currently selected files
• Set File paths for selected tracks Change the current file path of the selected track(s)
• Cache selected tracks Create temporary .wav file from the selected file. This cached file can improve performance of Zulu.
• Validate Playlist Search the playlist to see if there are any missing files and check if any missing file locations are now valid(ie USB drive has been connected).
• Export To Playlist Opens a dialogue so a playlist or the library can be exported to a playlist.
• Skip playing Deck If Autoplay is currently on then we can skip the track which is currently playing to load the next one.
• Undock/Dock Audio Library Remove or Add the Audio Library window from or to the Main Window.