The Music Library

Introduction to the Music Library

The Music Library provides a very powerful view of the database and your music files which offers several different ways of browsing through your music and manually categorizing your music.

Using the Music Library to browse

Show the Music Library using any of the methods below:

• Click on View | Views | Music Library from the main menu.
• Press F8 on your keyboard.
• Click the Music Library button on the shortcut bar in the Left Sidebar

The following sub-views are available for browsing (the number of sub-view items displayed and their order may vary depending on your current Settings). Most of the sub-views in the Music Library can be customized to meet your specific needs. The sub-views specified below is just the standard setup after installing Helium.

Read more about customizing Music Library Nodes here.

• Artist
  Separated with each leading character and containing Album as a sub-view. The tracks for each selected Album are shown in the Track List.

• Album
  Separated with each leading character (no album covers are shown). The albums also have artists as sub-views. The tracks for each selected Album are shown in the Track List.

• Title
  Separated with each leading character. The tracks for each selected Title are shown in the Track List.

• Genre
  Contains Genre Category and Genre Style as sub-views and the last sub-view is Genre. The tracks for each selected Genre are shown in the Track List.

• Rating
  Contains Genre and then artist as sub-views. The tracks for each selected Rating/Genre/Artist are shown in the Track List.

• Release Year
  Shows decades with Release Year and Artists, Albums as sub-views. The tracks for each selected Decade/Year/Artist/Album are shown in the Track List.

• Recording Year
  Shows decades with Recording Year and Artists,Albums as sub-views. The tracks for each selected Decade/Year/Artist/Album are shown in the Track List.

• Mood
  Shows Genre and Artist as sub-views. The tracks for each selected Mood/Genre/Artist are shown in the Track List.

• Situation
  Shows Genre and Artist as a sub-views. The tracks for each selected Situation/Genre/Artist are shown in the Track List.

• Release Type
  Release Type Shows Artists and Albums as sub-views. The tracks for each Release Type/Artist/Album are shown in the Track List

• File Date
  Separated by Year, Month and Day and shows a list of last modified file dates of all music in the database. The tracks for each selected Year/Month/Day are shown in the Track List.

• Collection/Volume
  Shows all Collections and Volumes in the database as sub-view, the volumes also have Album as sub-views. The tracks for each Collection/Volume are shown in the Track List.

• My Folders
  Shows a list of all drives and folders where audio files in the database resides. The tracks for each of the lowest level folders are shown in the track list.

• User Defined
  Shows a user-defined tree. The tracks for each selected lowest level (user defined) leaf node are shown.

• Quality
  The tracks for each selected Quality are shown in the Track List.

• Series
  Contains Albums as a sub-view. The tracks for each selected Series/Album are shown in the Track List.
  
  Note:

  • Related tag is Part Of Series.

• Duplicates
  Shows duplicate music files in your database. The tracks that are duplicated under each of the following categories are shown in the Track List:

  • Path + Filename

  • Artist + Title

  • Artist + Title + Remix

  • Artist + Album + Title

  • Title + Track length

• Untagged Items
  The track listing shows entries where the fields listed below are empty (i.e. untagged):

  • Title

  • Artist

  • Album

  • Genre

  • Rating

  • Mood

  • Situation

  • Tempo

  • Release Type

  • Recording Year

  • Release Year

  • Quality

  The tracks for each selected field above are shown in the Track List.

• Grouping
  The tracks for each selected Grouping are shown in the Track List.

• Unavailable Items
  The tracks for each selected windows drive are shown in the Track List. Lists those music files in the database that are not currently accessible by Helium Music Manager.

• User categories
  Shows User Category as a sub-view (dependant on user definition). The tracks for each selected user category are shown in the Track List.

• My Computer
  This node works similar to Windows Explorer as it can browse all your drives for music, but with the benefit of reading tags on the files so you will get all Heliums columns to be able to review the tags on the files before adding them to the database.
  
  Read more about options available from the My Computer tree here.

The Bottom Toolbar

The toolbar at the bottom of the Music Library Sidebar is context sensitive. The buttons displayed/enabled are dependant on which Music Library tree node is currently selected. The toolbar contains the following controls:

• Folders
  This button is enabled when sub-views are selected in the My Folders tree node.

• Collection/Volume
  This button is enabled when the Collection/Volume tree node is selected.

• Categories
  This button is enabled when the Categories tree node is selected.

• Customize...
  This button is enabled on all nodes that can be customized.

• Collapse all nodes
  This button will collapse all currently open nodes, so that only the root nodes are displayed.