Songs
The Songs view is a flat list of every track in your library. Each row shows the album artwork, title, artist (clickable), album (clickable), duration, and an optional rating / love column.
For navigation, search, multi-select, ratings, and shared right-click actions, see Library Basics.
Sort modes
Section titled “Sort modes”Songs has the most sort modes of any view:
- Recently Added (default), Recently Played, Most Played, Favorited, Random
- Title, Album, Artist, Album Artist
- Release Year, Duration, BPM, Channels, Genre, Rating, Comment
The dynamic column on the right adapts to the current sort — showing year, duration, plays, rating, or genre.
Columns
Section titled “Columns”Toggle via the gear icon: Album, Stars, Plays, Duration, and Love. Stars and Plays auto-show when you sort by them.
Search
Section titled “Search”Search hits the Navidrome backend’s full-text index and matches across title, album, artist, and album artist — typing radiohead finds tracks where Radiohead is the artist as well as anything titled “Radiohead”.
Click-through filters
Section titled “Click-through filters”- Artist name on a row → Artists view filtered to that artist
- Album name on a row → Albums view filtered to that album
- Genre in the dynamic column when sorted by Genre → Genres view filtered to that genre
Performance with large libraries
Section titled “Performance with large libraries”Songs loads pages on demand as you scroll. For libraries over ~100k tracks:
- Random sort re-samples on every reload, so “Center on Playing” may jump to offset 0 if the playing track isn’t in the current sample.
- Filtering through Artist or Album first is usually faster than scrolling Songs.