Add Files to Database

Introduction

Add your music files to the Helium Music Manager database to enable browsing, tagging, renaming, report creating and statistics viewing of your entire music collection. The Add Files to Database tool will also automatically assign album pictures to your albums so you can browse your albums by thumbnails in the different view of the program.
 
During the adding operation, Helium Music Manager will automatically search for duplicate files. Please note that the duplicates will only be identified using the full filename (path + filename) and not by any of the tag fields.

Adding Files to the Database

1. Start the Add Files to Database tool by using any of the methods below:

   • Click the Tools | Database | Add Files to Database menu option.

   • Press CTRL-Insert on your keyboard.

   • Click the Add Files to Database button on the main toolbar:

2. Browse your computer and checkmark the drives or folders that you would like to scan for music files. All sub-folders of a checkmarked drive or folder will be scanned for music files.

3. Select which file types you would like to add from the list Selected Filetypes. You can right click this list to quickly select either all or no file types. During the add operation, only files matching these selected file types will be added to your database.

4. Optionally click the Select button to select a Collection and Volume to add the music files to.

5. Click OK to start scanning the selected drives and folders for music files.

6. The tool will start indexing your files (searching for them on your computer). This step might take a while, depending on the size of the selected drives or folders and the amount of music files within.

7. The next step is to add the files to your database. This step can be performed in the background. Click the Hide button to hide the adding dialog. Information about the adding progress will be shown in the lower left of the main window.

Note:

• You can make the Add Files to Database tool automatically search for album pictures in folders or in tags. Enable this option from Options.