Using Guayadeque | Player Filters | Radio
Library
The Library is the place where you can access all your music collection. This will be organized according to the tags applied to the files. The main Library frame is composed of smaller windows that function as filters: Search, Directory, Label, Genre, Artist, Album Artist, Album, Composer, Rating, Year and Play Count. You can have as many or as few opened as you like. From any of these windows you can drag-and-drop, double click, or choose a contextual action for the elements selected.
A track tagged with multiple artists (for example Artist 1 / Artist 2) lists one row per artist in the Artists panel, and shared albums show up under every credited artist without duplicating the album. Track lines display the joined artist names.
The songs lists' Select submenu selects the track's Album, Artist, Album Artist, Genre, Year or Composer in the library.
The Song views (Library, Tree and Playlists) support sorting by multiple columns: click further column headers to add them to the sort, each showing its sort priority beside the direction arrow. Sorting can be disabled per column back to the natural order.
They also lead with a Playlist indicator column: tracks currently in the Now Playing playlist show the play icon there. The icons update live as tracks are added to or removed from the playlist. Right-clicking a column header opens the Select Columns dialog, where columns can be shown, hidden or reordered.
Use the LEFT and RIGHT keys to scroll the grids horizontally.
Directories panel
The Directories panel shows the collection's directory tree (Sources -> collection -> Library -> Directories). Selecting a directory filters Genres, Artists, Albums and Songs to it, and restricts the library search to the selected directory. Right-clicking the collection node and choosing Update scans every directory below the root.
The Albums panel Options submenu sets the cover display (hidden, small, medium or large) and the sort order; the selections are saved per collection.
Selecting an item in one of these windows, filters the values in all windows below it. For example, left-clicking on an artist in the Artists window shows his albums in the Album window (filter the albums) and shows only the tracks of all artist albums in the Songs window (filters all artist songs). And after left-clicking on one of his albums shows the tracks only for this album in the Songs window (filter the songs). You can also select more than one artist, album and song in its respective window.
A track credited to more than one artist lists one row per artist in the Artists panel, and its album appears under every credited artist without being duplicated. The songs lists show the artist name exactly as the file stores it (for example Artist 1 & Artist 2); which characters separate the artists, and which names must stay in one piece, is set in Preferences → Collections and changes only the Artists list, never the name displayed or saved.
The Songs window context menu has a Select option that selects the track's album, artist, album artist, genre, year or composer in the respective library window.
The Song views (Library, Tree and Playlists) support sorting by multiple columns: click further column headers to add them to the sort, each showing its sort priority beside the direction arrow on it. Sorting can be disabled per column back to the natural order. Right-clicking a column header opens the ** Select Columns** dialog, where columns can be shown, hidden or reordered.
The leading Play Queue column marks the tracks of the Play Queue with the play icon; the tracks already behind the one being played show a disabled (stop) icon. The icons update live as tracks are added to or removed from the queue.
Use the LEFT and RIGHT keys to scroll the grids horizontally.
Directories panel
The Directories panel shows the collection's directory tree (collection → Library → Directories). Selecting a directory filters Genres, Artists, Albums and Songs to it, and restricts the library search to the selected directory.
The top folder is now the common ancestor of all collection paths — the real folders that hold the collection are shown, without the rest of the disk — instead of a fake collection root entry that carried the collection name (before v1.1.0). Selecting the top folder still means the whole collection.
Right-clicking the collection node and choosing Update updates every directory below the root, while Force Update re-reads every file, regardless of its modification date (but it's not a rescan. To do a full rescan you need to go to Source → Collection → Rescan or use the Collection → Rescan context menu option).
The Update and Force Update commands are also available in the context menu of the Artists, Albums and Songs panels: right-click the selected item and choose Update (only new or changed files) or Force Update (every file of the selection). Only the folders of the selected artist, album or tracks are scanned, without touching other folders.
Albums panel
The Albums panel Options submenu sets the cover display (hidden, small, medium or large) and the sort order; the selections are saved per collection.
Search
Guayadeque searches as you type, unless Instant text search is unchecked in Preferences → General; in that case the search starts when you press Enter.
With the instant search on, Enter plays the search results, or enqueues them when "When searching, pressing enter queues the result" is checked — that option is only available while the instant search is on. Enqueue as Default Action, in the same page, applies to the lists themselves: opening an item enqueues it instead of playing it.
Marking the checkbox at the right end of the search bar ignores accented characters: it removes the accents from both the search text and the songs data before comparing them, so an unaccented text also finds accented words.
These buttons 
allow to choose the display inside the Library
From left to right:
- Library content
- Albums Covers Browser
- Treeview
- Playlists