Filelisting
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Introduction
The Filelisting shows a list of media files corresponding to the node selected in the Media Tree and is shown in the Main Panel in MediaMonkey. The Filelisting can't be disabled. The Main Panel also shows Device Profiles, Cloud Service Profiles, Streaming Service Profiles and the websites in the Web node.
Views
The Filelisting can be shown in various different ways. Which Views are available depends on the content being shown (ie. which node in the Media Tree is selected). You can change View under View > Main Panel View from the Main Menu:
- List shows a basic list of your media files and their tags.
- List by Album
- Grid (****) shows a grid of Artwork organized by a tag value (like Albums or Genres depending on what node in the Media Tree you're in)
- Browser shows files grouped by Album with both Artwork and tags.
Columns
Change which Columns are shown
In the List and List (by Album) views you can select which columns should be shown in the Filelisting. Right click on a Column Header and you can:
- Quickly enable/disable columns from the Context Menu.
- Use Choose columns / Sort to be able to set columns and sort in the Choose columns dialog.
MediaMonkey Filelisting Choose Columns dialog
- You can select an item and use the Add or Remove button to perform the respective action on the column. A Second click on a Column Header will reverse the sort order.
- You can Drag & Drop items to their desired location. You can add, remove as well as sort columns this way in Selected columns.
Apply Sorting
MediaMonkey can sort the Filelisting in the List, List (by Album) and Browser views:
- You can quickly sort on a Column by just clicking on the Column Header. This will sort the Filelisting on that tag.
- You can apply multiple sort by first sorting on a Column, then holding down the CTRL Key + click on Column Header(s) to sort on additional Columns.
- You can right click on the Column Headers and use Choose columns / Sort from the Context Menu to apply sorting in the Choose columns dialog.
- You can choose which field to sort on.
- You can set if the sort should be Ascending or Descending.
- You can Add or Remove additional fields to be sorted on.
Elements in the Filelisting
The Filelisting can show different Elements using View > Main Panel View from the Main Menu. Which Elements are available depends on which node in the Media Tree is selected and which View is used to view the Filelisting.
- Statusbar, which shows amount of media files shown and their total size and play time.
- Info panel show an Artwork related to the node selected (like Artist Artwork for an Artist node) as well as a Wikipedia description (when available) for the selected node. The Info Panel also allows you to show files that are in:
- My Library which shows media files in your MediaMonkey Library.
- Online which shows media files available for the selected node in the Media Tree from online sources.
- Column Filter which is used to filter the Filelisting (see Filtering the Filelisting).
- Tracks which shows top tracks for the selected node in the Media Tree.
- Related Artists which shows related Artists for the selected Artist in the Media Tree.
Filtering the Filelisting
You can Filter (where available) what's is shown in the Filelisting for a node in the Media Tree to drill down to specific set of files:
- Using Contextual Search
- Column Filter which can be enabled using View > Main Panel View > Column Filter from the Main Menu.
- The Column Filter will only show files in the Filelisting matching the selection in the Column Filter.
- The columns to the right of a column you select an item in will filter based on that selection. So if you have selected a Genre in column 1, the Artist list in column 2 will only show Artists that have media files with the selected Genre of column 1.
- Columns allow you to select multiple values using Ctrl+Click for any additional value selections.
- You can edit which Columns are shown in the Column Filter as well as in which order. Right click on a Column Header to Add, Remove or change what tag is shown in the Column.
- You can double click on an item in the Column Filter and have all files associated with that value added to the Playing (Depends on Default Action settings)
- View Filter, using View > Main Panel View > View Filter from the Main Menu you can use a Criteria based filter on the files in the Filelisting.
Manage Views
Under View > Main Panel View > Manage Views you can edit existing Views or create new Custom Views. Views are set for the selected Collection or Collection sub-node:
- You can Edit existing Views.
- You can Add new Views.
- You can Remove any custom Views (default Views can't be removed).
In the View settings you can set:
- Name which is the name the View should have.
- View type which View is to be used, this also determines which other settings are available.
- Sorting which default sorting the View should use.
- Columns which default Columns the View should show.
- Elements which default Elements the View should show.
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