The Music Information Browser 

Introduction

The Music Information Browser is where you can browse your music collection, find relationships between artists and download information for your music collection; like biographies, discographies and relations for artists both in and not currently in your collection.

Using the Music Information Browser

• Click the View | Views | Music Information Browser menu option.
• Press F12 on your keyboard.
• Click the Music Information Browser tab on the navigation toolbar.
• Click one of the Browse & Search | Browse ... in Music Information Browser menu options.

The Left sidebar (Search Panel)

Choose one of following types to search your music collection:

• Artist
  This will search for artists.
• Album
This will search for albums.
• Genre
  This will search for genres.
• Publisher
  This will search for publishers.
• Year
  This will search for a year.
• Country
  This will search for a country.
• All
  This will search for artists, albums, genres and publishers.

Specify what you want to search for in the box below and hit the Search button.

Note:

• If you don't specify something to search for the search will return all of the selected type.

Below the search box you have a couple of links.
 

Clicking the:

• View Statistics, will open the Database statistics page.
• Genres Overview, will open the Genres Overview page.
• Countries Overview, will present a search result with all countries.
• Publishers Overview, will present a search result with all publishers.

The Music Information Browser main menu

Some items in the main menu are unique for the Music Information Browser and are explained below.

View menu:

• View Statistics, will open the Database statistics page.
• Genres Overview, will open the Genres Overview page.
• Countries Overview, will present a search result with all countries.
• Publishers Overview, will present a search result with all publishers.

Browse & Search menu:

• Browse in Album Browser, will open the album in the Album Browser. This item is only active on the Album page.
• Search for Artist, will open the Search View with the current artist. This item is only active on the Artist page.
• Search for Album, will open the Search View with the current album. This item is only active on the Album page.
• Search for Genre, will open the Search View with the current genre. This item is only active on the Genre page.
• Search for Publisher, will open the Search View with the current publisher. This item is only active on the Publisher page.
• Search for Release Year, will open the Search View with the current year. This item is only active on the Year page.
• Explore Source Folder, will open Windows Explorer with the albums folder. This item is only active on the Album page.

Tools menu:

• Manage artists, will open the Manage Artists dialog.
• Manage countries, will open the Manage Countries dialog.
• Manage publishers, will open the Manage Publishers dialog.
• Download Artist Information, will download all information for the artist with the selected plugin. This item is only active on the Artist page.

 

The Music Information Browser toolbar

To navigate through the Music Information Browser there are some buttons on the main toolbar.

• Click the Back button to go to the previous page.
• Click the Forward button to go to the next page.
• Click the Refresh button to refresh the current page.
• Click the Home button to go to the Music Information Browser start page.

Music Information Browser pages

There are eight different page types in the Music Information Browser. They can be accessed through the search panel and via links in the different pages. The page types are as follows (click on a page type to learn more about that page type):

• Start page
  This is the start page of the Music Information Browser, it contains database statistics and spotlights on a randomly chosen artist and album.
• Search Result page
  This page displays the search results.
• Artist page
  This page contains information about the artist, such as biography, discography and artist relations.
• Album page
  This page contains information about the album, and lists the music tracks in the album.
• Genre page
  This page contains information about the genre and lists major artists that have music tracks in that genre.
• Genre Style page
  This page contains information about the style and lists genres in this style.
• Genre Category page
  This page contains information about the category and lists styles and genres in this category.
• Publisher page
  This page contains information about the publisher and lists major artists from that publisher.
• Year page
  This page shows major artists who had music tracks released in that year.
• Country page
  This page lists artists and publishers from that country.