Queue
The queue is Nokkvi’s active play queue — everything you hear flows through it. You can build it on the fly while browsing, or replace it entirely when you want to listen to something specific.
Adding to the Queue
Section titled “Adding to the Queue”Enter behavior
Section titled “Enter behavior”Pressing Enter on a focused album or track is the most common way to start playing. What it does depends on the enter_behavior setting:
| Value | Behavior |
|---|---|
play_all (default) | Replaces the queue with the full album (or all songs in the current view) and starts playing |
play_single | In song-level views (Songs, the queue), replaces the queue with just the focused track. On a focused album or artist, it behaves like play_all and replaces the queue with the whole album/artist |
append_and_play | Adds the item to the end of the queue and starts playing it |
Add without replacing
Section titled “Add without replacing”Shift + A adds the focused item to the end of the queue without clearing what’s already there. Works on individual tracks and on albums (which queues all their tracks).
Library Browser and drag and drop
Section titled “Library Browser and drag and drop”While on the Queue view, press Ctrl + E to open the Library Browser — a side panel with tabs for Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres, and Similar. You can drag tracks from the Library Browser and drop them into the queue at a specific position; a drop indicator shows where they’ll land.
Similar Songs and Top Songs
Section titled “Similar Songs and Top Songs”Nokkvi can ask your Navidrome server for recommendations powered by Last.fm. Triggering either feature automatically switches to the Queue view and opens the Library Browser on the Similar tab.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Shift + S | Find songs similar to the currently playing track |
Shift + T | Find the most-played songs by the currently playing track’s artist |
Both hotkeys operate on the currently playing track. Find Similar warns with a toast if nothing’s playing. Top Songs also needs the playing track to carry artist metadata — if it has none, a toast tells you there’s no artist metadata for the currently playing track. To run either action against a different track, album, or artist, right-click it and pick Find Similar or Top Songs from the context menu; those entries act on the focused / right-clicked item.
Results are limited to songs already in your library — Navidrome matches Last.fm’s recommendations against your local collection, so tracks you don’t own won’t appear. The Similar tab header shows which result set is loaded (e.g. “Similar to: Paranoid Android” or “Top Songs: Radiohead”).
Both features require Last.fm or ListenBrainz to be configured on the server. See Scrobbling for setup.
Managing the Queue
Section titled “Managing the Queue”| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Shift + Up / Shift + Down | Move the focused track up or down |
Ctrl + D | Remove the focused track |
Shift + D | Clear the entire queue |
Sort modes
Section titled “Sort modes”Each pick from the sort dropdown physically reorders the queue. Manual reorder (drag, Shift + ↑/↓) keeps working from any mode.
- Album, Artist, Title, Duration, Genre, Rating, Most Played
- Random — one-shot shuffle. Re-select it (or toggle the order arrow while Random is active) to reshuffle. The mode itself isn’t persisted to
config.toml, so a relaunch restores whichever deterministic sort was active before.
The dropdown also ends with a Roulette entry — same press-Enter-to-stop slot-machine pick as every other slot-list view. Ctrl + R triggers it from the keyboard.
The X playback mode is a different concept: it shuffles play order on the fly without rearranging the queue. Use Random sort when you want the visible queue order itself to be shuffled.
Columns
Section titled “Columns”The gear icon in the queue header toggles optional columns. Toggles persist per-view.
| Column | Notes |
|---|---|
| Multi-select | Adds a leading checkbox column and a tri-state header. See Library Basics → Multi-select. |
| Index | Row number. |
| Thumbnail | Per-track album cover. |
| Stars | 0–5 star rating. |
| Album | Album name (clickable — see Click-through expansion). |
| Genre | Stacks under Album when both are visible; takes over the Album slot at album-size font when Album is hidden; auto-shows when the queue is sorted by Genre. |
| Duration | Track length. |
| Love | Heart icon for the favorited flag. |
| Plays | Server-tracked play count. |
Playback Modes
Section titled “Playback Modes”Random, Repeat, and Consume follow long-standing MPD conventions — the same names and behaviors that have been used across MPD clients for years. Toggle them from the player bar or with keyboard shortcuts.
| Key | Mode | Behavior |
|---|---|---|
X | Random | Plays tracks in random order |
Z | Repeat | Press once to repeat the current track; press again to repeat the whole queue; press a third time to turn off |
C | Consume | Tracks are removed from the queue as they finish playing — useful for a one-time listening session |
Artwork panel
Section titled “Artwork panel”The right-hand artwork panel shows the cover for the now-playing track. Right-click it for Refresh Artwork when a cover changes server-side. For sizing and visibility controls, see Artwork & Performance.