Support
Found a bug, want a feature or tell how great Goggles Music Manager is/sucks.
Please mail me at sander@knology.net or s.jansen@gmail.com
Installation
Read the INSTALL file on how to build and install Goggles Music Manager on
your machine.
Importing Music
There are currently two ways to import music files into Goggles Music Manager
- Import from folder [File->Import Folder]
Recursively search any subdirectories of the given folder and import any
recogizned file.
2) Import selected files.
Import only the selected files.
The following files are recognized:
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (*.mp3)
Ogg Vorbis (*.mp4)
Free Lossless Audio Codec (*.flac)
Musepack (*.mpc)
MPEG-4 Part 14 (*.mp4,*.m4a,*.m4p,*.aac) (optional)
If no tag or an incomplete tag is found, it will substitute the missing
information with either the default tags set in Preferences->Import or
one of the following options:
Use filename for song title
The name of the file (without the extension and full path) is used
for the song title.
Use directory name for album name
The name of the directory containing the file is used for the album
name. ie:
/home/foobar/AlbumName/file.mp3
Use directory name for artist name
The name of the directory containing the file is used for the artist name.
/home/foobar/ArtistName/file.mp3
If the "Use directory name for album name" is also specified, the name is
taken from the directory name above the directory containing the files. ie:
/home/foobar/ArtistName/AlbumName/file.mp3
Use scanorder for track number
The trackname will be based on the order of the filenames in the directory.
Replaces underscores with spaces
Any underscores in file or directory names used by the tags will be converted
to spaces.
Editing Tags
Changing the name of an artist in the Artist list will affect any associated track.
Changing the name of an album in the Album list will affect any associated track.
Changing the name of a genre in the Genre list will affect any associated track.
Sorting
The following sort options are available for the track list:
Browse: [only available in browse mode]
Sort on album, sort on artist and sort on track number.
Note that artist and album can be either ascending or descending based
on the sorting order of the album and artist list.
Shuffle:
Try to randomize the order of the tracks.
By Genre:
Sort on genre, sort on artist, sort on album and sort on track number.
By Artist:
Sort on artist, sort on album, sort on track number
By Album:
Sort on album, sort on track number
By Time:
Sort on time
By Track Number:
Sort on track number
By Title:
Sort on title
For artists and albums special keywords may be set in the preferences
panel to exclude certain common words from sorting on.
Shortcuts
Ctrl-N Reset default sorting order in current view.
Ctrl-B Toggles browse mode on or off.
Ctrl-G Toggles Genre list in browse mode.
Ctrl-Q Quit Goggles Music Manager.
Ctrl-O Import files from given directory.
Ctrl-J Jump to playing song in track list.