User Interface

Album Thumbnails

The Album Thumbnails mode lets you browse your albums as small thumbnail representations.

Using the Album Thumbnails

Switch to the thumbnail mode by selecting either View > Panes > Content Pane > Album Thumbnails from the main menu or by clicking the Album Thumbnails button on Navigation Bar.

Any previously listed items in the content pane will now be shown as album thumbnails.

The albums' thumbnails are shown together with a release type icon, a rating, as well as a caption displaying the album's name and theartist that has produced it. You can adjust the size of the thumbnails by right clicking in the thumbnail view and select Thumbnail Size and one of the sizes from its submenu. The following thumbnails sizes are available:

128*128 pixels
96*96 pixels
64*64 pixels

The Album Thumbnail View context menu

If you right click an album the common album context menu is shown.

This context menu contains a few functions specific to the Album Thumbnails Content View - see the last entry Album Thumbnails tools which is described below:

Grouping
- Group By Artist
- Group By Album
- Group By Publisher
- Group By Total CDs
- Group By Rating
- Group By Release Type
- Group By Release Year
- No Grouping
Thumbnail Size
- 128*128 Pixels
- 96*96 Pixels
- 64*64 Pixels
Expand / Collapse
Allows you to expand or collapse the groups if a Grouping has been selected.

Grouping albums

Helium Music Manager enables you to group the albums, shown in thumbnail mode, in several different ways.

Grouping is very useful when you need to browse/work with only a subset of the resulting albums, but still need to keep the entire contents visible.

Each group can be collapsed and expanded by simply clicking the (+) or (-) button to the left of the group caption.