View albums catalog
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This view displays all your albums using cover thumbnails and allows to use your collection visually. Note that all thumbnails have to be generated at first access (takes a while). If an album has several cover, this view displays the default cover. Setting a default cover in Cover View refreshes the thumbnail in this view.
Sorting and filtering albums
- Sort by combo enables album sorting by artist/ genre, year, discovery date or album (default).
- Filter by combo enables album dynamic filtering by character string.
Show/Hide albums without cover
The Show albums without cover enables to show or hide albums without covers. It can be useful to see albums without covers to interact with them (play, get a cover online...).
Thumbnails size
The Thumbnail size combo enables to select thumb size (from 50x50 to 300x300, default= 150x150).
Refresh thumbnails
The Refresh thumbnails button deletes all thumbnails (of all sizes) and recreates them.
Page selector
If the returned albums don't fit on a single page, the display is splitted into several pages. You can navigate rewind or forward pages using buttons or select directly a page from the combo box.
The contextual menu
Contextual menu on thumbnails features:
- Play: Play album
- Push: Push the album into queue
- Play Shuffle: Play album with shuffle
- Play Repeat: Play album in loop
- Get tags online""": Grab online tags from cddb system
- Grab cover online: Opens Grab cover online wizard
- Show album details: Force displaying the album popup
- Properties: Display album properties
The Grab Covers Online wizard
This dialog allows user to perform an online query to get a matching cover. If covers are found, navigate through them using the buttons next and previous. You can select matching covers using the OK button.
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