How to use Jampa

Managing your music library

Managing your music can be done either through the Library view or the Disk view.

Library view

The Library view display your music with a treeview, based on the values of the tags of your music files. This view can be organized in three ways:

Additionaly, this view can be sorted alphabetically, or inverse-alphabetically.

Disk view

The Disk view display you music with a treeview, based on the on-disk directories and files organization. As for the library view, it can be sorted alphabetically, or inverse-alphabetically.

Playing music

Quick start

As said in introduction, a file must belong to a playlist in order to be played. If you do not want to bother with playlists for now, simply double-click on any item in the Library or Disk view, it will be added to the default playlist and played. You can choose items of any level, all the files which belong to this items will be added. For example, if you double-click on an artist in the Library view, all this artist's songs will be played. If you double-click on a directory in the Disk view, all the files contained in this directory and its sub-directories will be added.

To play songs from an existing playlist, eitheir select the playlist in the Playlists view, right-click on it and select "Play" or "Open an play", or double-click on the first item you want to play from the openned playlist.

Deeper look

There is two main actions wich can be performed from the Library and the Disk view: Play or Enqueue. Play means "add all the selection to the specified playlist and play the first song", whereas Enqueue simply add the selection to the specified playlist.

Playing and enqueuing can be done to the default playlist, an existing playlist, or a new playlist. This can be done by making a selection (multi-selection can be done by the combination of the Control or Shift key a a click on an item), and doing a right-click. "Play" and "Enqueue" menu items will add the selection to the default playlist, whereas "Play in playlist" and "Enqueue in playlist" actions allow to create a new playlist or to select an existing playlist.

Enqueuing can also be done by dragging a selection and drop it on either an opened playlist, or on a playlist name in the Playlists view.

Controlling music

Music control can be done through the Controls view. This view shows the ellapsed and total playing time of the currently playing song, the song's properties, and has the traditionals controls buttons.

All the behaviours described in this section can be modified. See Preferences for more informations.