What is the "&" in the tag panel?

[Emdosis]

This has probably been asked before but I can't find any post that talks about it. Pliz help.

[MotleyG]

See here for an explanation of how the ampersand & is used to assign keyboard shortcuts in the tag panel along with the Alt key;

Ampersands in Tag Panel field names

As per the linked help article the ampersand defines the letter that will select the field when the Alt key is also pressed. Eg: &Year means pressing Alt + Y will select the Year field, when the Tag Panel is focused, since the & is placed before Y. Removing the ampersands simply removes the Alt hotkeys. As for whey those fields are called 'user defined' it's since the default fields are now customizable. Until the more recent Mp3Tag versions the default fields couldn't be customized. All of th…

@Florian The explanation for this keyboard shortcut method is missing in the newly updated help documents. I believe it was in the original support link that was referenced in the above post.

Tag Panel – Mp3tag Documentation