Browse the library
The library page lists every song in the library, one per row. The header gives totals for the whole library, such as “1,284 tracks · 96 albums · 3 folders · 412.6 GB”.
All songs
Link to the “All songs” sectionEach row shows a small cover, the title and artist, the album, the format and the duration, then what is missing: songs without lyrics or without a cover carry a small icon at the end of the row. The format follows the encoding: lossless as “codec bit depth/sample rate”, such as “FLAC 16/44.1”; lossy as “codec bitrate”, such as “MP3 320k”.
The two tags next to the heading count the whole library, such as “FLAC 412” and “30 without lyrics”.
Songs without a title show their file name, and songs without an artist show “Unknown artist”.
Sorting and searching
Link to the “Sorting and searching” sectionThe segmented control at the top right has four positions:
| Position | Order |
|---|---|
| Title | By title; same titles by artist |
| Artist | By artist, then album, then disc and track number |
| Album | By album, then disc and track number |
| Recently added | By the time added, newest first |
Chinese sorts by pinyin. Typing in the search field keeps only the songs whose title, artist or album contains the text; Latin letters ignore case. With no match, the page says so and suggests another word.
Selecting and playing
Link to the “Selecting and playing” section- A click selects one row; Shift-click selects a range; ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux) adds a row to the selection or takes it out.
- A double-click, Enter, or the play key at the start of a row plays from that song. What plays next follows the list as it was when playback started; changing the sort or the search later does not affect it.
- Protected songs, songs whose file is missing and songs in an offline folder cannot play and have no play key.
Context menu
Link to the “Context menu” sectionRight-click a song; the menu acts on the selected songs:
- Play
- Match lyrics, match cover: go to the covers and lyrics page with these songs
- Show album: open the album the song belongs to
- Show in Finder (“Show in File Explorer” on Windows, “Open containing folder” on Linux)
Items that do not apply are dimmed.