Browsing Your Library

The sidebar on the left is the main way to navigate your library. It's organised into expandable sections:

• Library — your whole collection, browsable by Artist, Album, Genre, and Year. Click a category to expand it and drill into a specific artist, album, genre, or year; selecting an entry filters the main table to just those tracks.
• Favourites — tracks you've marked as favourites.
• Playlists — any playlists you've created, plus (if you've paired other devices) an entry per paired device so you can browse its library the same way you browse your own.

Artist, Album, and Genre matching is case-insensitive throughout, so "Metallica" and "METALLICA" (or "Rock" and "rock") are treated as the same entry rather than showing up as duplicates — this applies automatically, including to a library scanned before this was added.

Selecting anything in the sidebar filters the main track table on the right. The table's columns can be customised, and a search box lets you filter further by title, artist, or album within whatever the sidebar has already narrowed down. Once you've selected a specific artist/album/genre/year, though, the search box only narrows that category's own list in the sidebar — it won't also hide tracks from the selected category itself, so typing "Dance" to find a genre called "Dance Pop" and clicking it still shows you every track in Dance Pop, not just the ones that happen to also match "Dance" by title.

A name too long to fit the sidebar's width gets a scrolling marquee once you select it, rather than just being cut off.

Genre: main genres and sub-genres

Genre tags are often messy across a large library assembled from many sources — the same style of music tagged a dozen different ways. Expanding Genre groups your tracks by main genre (Rock, Metal, Pop, Jazz, Electronic/Dance, and so on) first, with each raw genre tag nested underneath as its own sub-genre. For example, "Death Metal", "Technical Death Metal", and "Brutal Technical Death Metal" all appear together under a bold Metal heading.

This classification happens automatically the first time a genre tag is seen — on your very first scan, and again for your whole existing library the first time you launch a version with this feature, with no need to re-tag anything. Clicking the bold main-genre heading shows every track under it, across all of its sub-genres; clicking a sub-genre underneath narrows to just that one raw tag, same as browsing by Genre always has.

Paired devices in the sidebar

If you've paired a remote device (see Remote Pairing & Streaming), it appears in the sidebar too, with its own connection status. Devices marked browse-only (such as the web client) show just their connection status, without an Artist/Album/Genre/Year tree of their own, since they don't host a library independently of the desktop app.