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Web Links

Web Links
 
Web Links can be used to quickly search the web for an artist or track by right-clicking or expanding the context menu for a track on the main interface.
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Web Links list

1. Web Links list
The list of web links:
Display Text: The text displayed on the right-click context menu, e.g. Wikipedia: {artist} would display Wikipedia: ABBA.
URL: The URL (web address) that is visited in the browser.
Placeholders for {artist}, {title} and {album} can be used.
 
Order: This can be changed using the Up/Down buttons.
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Actions

2. Actions
Click Add to add a new web link
Click Edit to edit the selected web link.
Click the reorder Up and Down buttons to move the selected web link.
Click the Reset to defaults button to clear all existing web links and start again with the details.
 
Examples:
Display Text
URL
Comments
Wikipedia: {artist}
https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=\{artist} band site:wikipedia.org
Uses DuckDuckGo to find first result matching the search. The backslash \ denotes this.
Wikipedia: {artist} - {title}
https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=\{artist} - {title} song site:wikipedia.org
Uses DuckDuckGo to find first result matching the search. The backslash \ denotes this.
Google: {artist} - {title}
https://www.google.com/search?q={artist} - {title}
 
Wikipedia: {artist}
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={artist}
Directly search Wikipedia
Wikipedia: {artist} - {title}
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search={artist} - {title}
Directly search Wikipedia
All Music: {artist}
https://www.allmusic.com/search/all/{artist}
 
Discogs: {artist}
https://www.discogs.com/search/?q={artist}&btn=&type=artist
 
Discogs: {artist} - {title}
https://www.discogs.com/search/?q={artist} - {title}&type=release
 
MusicBrainz: {artist}
https://musicbrainz.org/search?type=artist&query={artist}
 
MusicBrainz: {artist}
https://www.duckduckgo.com/?q=!mbartist {artist}
Using DuckDuckGo Bangs (DuckDuckGo has a feature called Bangs which makes it easy to query other services: see https://duckduckgo.com/bang)