View your albums as thumbnails

Introduction

By default Helium Music Manager displays your tracks as items within the track list just as in the Windows Explorer.
However Helium Music Manager can also let you browse the contents in the track list as individual albums in a thumbnail mode.
Below follows a brief description of the thumbnail mode as well as a few tips and tricks.
 
The thumbnails mode can be used from the following views in Helium Music Manager:

• The Music Library
• The Artist Browser
• The Album Browser
• The Playlist Browser
• The Search View

Using the thumbnails mode

Switch to the thumbnail mode by selecting View | Thumbnails from the main menu or by clicking the Thumbnails tab on the tab control located just below the track list:

 

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

The albums' thumbnails can be shown as 128*128 pixel thumbnails, 96*96 pixels thumbnails or 64*64 pixels thumbnails. They are shown together with a release type icon, a rating, as well as a caption displaying the album's name and which artist has produced it.

If you right click you will see an album thumbnail specific context menu with functions directly related to the album thumbnails.

Grouping albums

Helium Music Manager allows 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.

You can group your album thumbnails in the following ways:

• No 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

All grouping methods are available quickly from the context menu.
Each group can be collapsed and expanded by simply clicking the (+) or (-) button to the left of the group caption.  

Tips and tricks

• Use the Album Cover Manager to quickly manage your album covers
• Use the grouping features to get a better general view of the shown albums
• Drag and drop an album to the Active Playlist to enqueue the album
• Use browse multiple albums in the Album Browser to view contents from more than one album in the Album Browser.