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Perspectives and views

Introduction

• A view is a sub-window located inside the main jajuk screen.
• Jajuk is divided into perspectives and views. A perspective is a set of views that can be adjusted at your convenience, i.e. you can freely add or remove views to any perspective and you can resize/move any view in the current perspective freely.
• Jajuk will remember the current views and their location across restarts.
• Different perspectives have been predefined to make your life easier and will be explained later.
• To change the currently displayed perspective, click on the perspective icon of your choice from the left side of the screen.
• Check out the table of contents to get information about the different available views.

Jajuk perspectives

Jajuk currently comes with the following perspectives:

• Simple perspective: this perspective aims to be simple as possible. On the top you find the view suggestions and on the bottom the view tracks table.

• Files perspective: your collection is shown as it is on your disks: files, directories, playlist files, etc. Every actions are performed on an given physical file. This perspective is useful when your music don’t have tag. But note that if you have several times the same track in different devices (lets say one on your hard disk and one on a CD), you will see it several times in all views.

• Tracks perspective: your collection is shown using tags information such as genres, artists, years, albums or tracks. This perspective is only useful if your collection is correctly tagged, otherwise you’ll get many ‘unknown’. In opposition to the Files perspective, you will see tracks instead of files. A track is a logical mapping to one or more files. It means you will see a track only once even if you have several physical files for this track.

• Albums perspective: display albums collection using interactive covers thumbnails.

• Playslist perspective: display, create and modify playlists.

• Display perspective: used to show various information while playing tracks.

• Information perspective: Aims to display various content about currently played track (Wikipedia view for instance).

• Configuration perspective: Contains views to configure Jajuk (options) and to create or modify devices. A device is a set of physical files (like a directory, a CD, a music player…).

• Statistics perspective: contains various pies and histograms about your collection: number of tracks, devices sizes, genres repartition, collection size.

Docking

Jajuk interface can be organized just like you want it to be : you can resize, minimize, drag a view and add it to another view as a tab, make view auto-hideable (using the drawing-pin)…

You can reset default views configuration only for the current perspective or for all of them using the top menu Views then Restore current perspective or Restore all perspectives.

Views position and state are saved when closing Jajuk.

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