Glossary

Glossary

Terms used across the Musicott documentation.

Term	Meaning
Audio item	A single track in the library, with its file location and metadata (title, artist, album, genre, and so on). Also referred to as a track.
Library	Your full collection of audio items, stored locally in a SQLite database.
Navigation mode	A way of presenting the library in the main panel: All Tracks, Playlist, Artists, Albums, or Genres. Chosen from the sidebar. See Browsing.
Playlist	A named grouping of tracks, independent of where the files live on disk. Playlists can be nested in folders. See Playlists.
Drawer	The right-side overlay panel that slides in when you open an album or genre from a cover grid, listing that album's or genre's tracks over the dimmed grid. See Browsing.
Involved artist	An artist credited on a track in addition to the primary artist (for example, a featured guest). Searchable metadata. See Search.
Waveform	The visual amplitude graph shown during playback. Computed once per track and cached locally. See Playback.
Play queue	The ordered list of tracks scheduled to play next, opened as a popover from the player bar. See Playback.
History	The reverse-chronological list of tracks that have finished playing. See Playback.
Contextual random playback	Shuffle that draws its pool from whatever is currently in view — all tracks, the selected playlist, or the selected artist. See Playback.
iTunes import	Bulk import of tracks and playlists from an iTunes Library.xml file, driven by a four-step wizard. See Import.
Ring buffer	The in-memory store of recent log lines shown by the in-app log viewer. See Logs.
music-commons	The domain library underneath Musicott that models audio items, playlists, and artists. See Architecture.
lirp	The reactive persistence library that serializes the domain to JSON and SQLite. See Architecture.