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Collections and Volumes

Collections and Volumes enables forming of a hierarchical structure which you can use to organize your music collection.

How albums are interpreted

This section describes how albums are interpreted in Helium Music Manager.

Plug-ins

Plug-ins are used throughout Helium Music Manager to enable downloading of information (such as track information, album and artist pictures or lyrics) from various sources.

Rating your music

Helium offers you a great way to keep track of your music by applying a rating.

Release Types

The Release Type field is used to make Helium Music Manager separate the following record types:

Report Wizard template specification

Below follows a specification of how to create your own template for the Report Wizard.

Tag editors

Helium Music Manager has five tag editors; each has its own benefits and characteristics.

Templates

Templates are used throughout Helium Music Manager to speed up the processing of different tasks. A template contains information about how a certain feature should behave. Instead of performing the setup of the same task over and over again you can re-use a previously saved template to speed up your workflow.

Using MySQL as database backend

Helium Music Manager supports three different database backends; Microsoft Access (default), MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. This section describes how to connect to and use a MySQL database backend.

Visualisation plug-ins

Visualization plug-ins generate animated imagery based on the music currently being played. The imagery is usually generated and rendered in real time and synchronized with the music as it is played.

Using WMA files

To be able to use WMA files (including adding files to your library and modifying their tags) in Helium Music Manager you need to have the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed.