Library

The Library is the heart of Soulsolid: it’s your music collection once it has been imported. Everything else in the app (importing, downloading, tagging, lyrics) ends up here, and the Library section is where you browse, search, inspect and clean it up.

What you can do#

• Browse every track in the collection, page by page.
• Search artists, albums and tracks from a single search box.
• Filter tracks by genre, lyrics, AcoustID or date added.
• Open a track overview with its tags and audio details.
• Jump to the tag editor, add to a playlist, or play a track.
• Delete tracks, albums or whole artists.
• See collection stats: how many artists, albums and tracks you have and how much disk space they use.

Browsing and searching#

With the search box empty, the Library lists every track in your collection, 50 per page.

Start typing to search. A single query looks at artist names, album titles and track titles at the same time. Matching albums and artists are listed first, followed by matching tracks. A track matches if its title, its artist or its album contains the text you typed.

Filters#

Filters narrow down the track results and can be combined with each other and with a text search:

Track overview#

The Overview button opens a floating panel with everything Soulsolid knows about a track: title, artist, album, year, genre, track number, ISRC, BPM and lyrics, plus technical details such as format, bitrate, sample rate, bit depth, channels, duration and the file’s location on disk. You can also play the track right there (see Streaming).

From each search result you can also:

• Edit Tags to open the track in the tag editor.
• Add to Playlist to add the track, or a whole album or artist, to one of your playlists.

Deleting music#

You can delete a single track, an album, or an artist with all their tracks.

Deleting removes the audio files from disk, not just the entry in the library. This can’t be undone.

If a file can’t be removed (for example it was already deleted by hand), the entry is still removed from the library and the problem is logged.

Collection stats#

The dashboard and the Library show how many artists, albums and tracks you have, and the total size of your library folder on disk.

The folder buttons at the top of the Library open a folder tree of your library or downloads folder in a new tab, so you can check at a glance how files are laid out on disk. This needs the tree command to be installed (it is in the official container image).

Configuration#

The Library has no settings of its own. It uses:

libraryPath: /app/music      # where your organized music lives
downloadPath: /app/downloads # shown in the downloads folder tree
database:
  path: /data/library.db     # the library database

Related#

• Importing and Downloading add music to the library.
• Metadata and Lyrics enrich the tracks already in it.
• Merge cleans up duplicate artists, albums, genres and tracks.
• Metrics turns the library into charts.