Library and folders
How the library works
Audexis watches the music folders you choose, reads file metadata, and keeps a local database for browsing. Your audio files remain at their original paths.
Library views use embedded tags. A track’s displayed album or artist can differ from its folder name. If tracks are grouped incorrectly, inspect their tags before reorganizing folders.
Choose a view
- Home highlights activity and music from your collection.
- Songs provides a configurable table of individual tracks.
- Albums groups music by album information.
- Artists helps you browse by artist.
- Favorites collects tracks you have marked with a heart.
- Playlists contains collections you create yourself.
- Rewind explores your recorded listening activity.
Customize Songs columns
Right-click the Songs table header to choose visible columns. The menu includes ordinary song information, regular metadata fields, and custom text/URL fields discovered in the library or defined in settings.
Click a column heading to change its sort order. Use the heading’s drag handle to reorder columns and its right edge to resize it. Column selection, order, and widths are saved locally.
A blank cell means there is no indexed value for that song and field. Adding a column does not create a tag in the file. Multiple values may be displayed together in a cell; that display is separate from how values are edited and stored.
See Custom fields for named columns and Metadata editing for the Details field picker.
Add, remove, or rescan folders
Use Settings → Library to manage watched folders. Folder changes apply when you save. You can also import a folder or rescan through the File menu.
Save pending folder changes before using Rescan. Rescanning uses the saved folder list and rereads library information; it does not repair invalid audio or fill in missing tags from the internet.
Removing a folder from the configured library can remove its songs and playlist membership from Audexis. It does not delete the source audio files. Re-adding a folder is not a substitute for backing up library data.
Moved and missing files
Audexis monitors filesystem changes, including moves and renames. If a file can no longer be found, it can appear in File → Library → Missing Files.
For a disconnected external drive, reconnect it and rescan before removing records. For a moved file, use the missing-file relink action to locate its new path. Select the corresponding song, not an unrelated replacement with a similar name.
Removing a missing-file record removes that library entry rather than deleting an audio file from disk. This can also affect references such as playlist membership. Relink first if you want to keep the existing library identity.