Library

Browse your collection#

Use the search field to narrow the current collection. Search by a track title to find the playlist, artist, or album containing it. In Folders, matching roots and subfolders stay visible as you open each level until you reach the track. You can also search names and titles written in Japanese kana or kanji and other scripts with Latin letters; the original writing still works. Romanized matches depend on the available reading, so an unusual name may need its original spelling. The Grid and List controls change presentation where available; your view preferences are remembered.

Mouse-wheel scrolling uses the same pixel-based behavior in Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Folders. Scroll over the volume control only when you want to change volume.

An album or artist’s Play all starts a new queue. Add all appends files not already in the queue. Read Playback and queue before replacing a listening session.

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Add, refresh, or remove a folder#

1. Open Library → Folders and use the add-folder control. In an empty library you can also choose Index folder.
2. Choose a music folder in the folder picker. Wait for indexing to finish before searching for its albums and artists.
3. After adding, moving, deleting, or retagging files outside Neirose, choose Refresh library.

While indexing runs, the existing collection stays visible beneath a dimmed, theme-aware progress overlay. The overlay shows one progress ring: discovery reports scanned folders and found tracks, metadata reading reports processed tracks as a percentage, and finalizing fills the ring while showing the saving state. Library controls are temporarily locked, but global navigation and playback remain available until the refresh succeeds or ends.

Neirose keeps the previous catalog in place until the refreshed catalog is saved successfully. If a refresh is superseded or fails, the overlay closes and the previous collection remains available; there is no separate cancel action. When Windows animations are disabled, discovery uses a static partial ring while determinate progress and phase text remain visible. Screen readers receive a polite announcement when the phase changes, not for every count or percentage update.

A disconnected or temporarily unavailable folder may remain in the catalog. Reconnect the drive or restore access, then refresh before assuming that its music has been removed.

To stop including a root, use its remove control and confirm Remove folder. This removes the library reference; it does not delete the music on disk. Playlists still refer to original file paths.

Correct titles, artists, and artwork#

Neirose reads the tags stored in your audio files. It uses embedded artwork and supported folder-cover images, including cover and folder images. It does not edit your tags from the library.

1. If an album appears split or a title is wrong, inspect the files’ artist, album, and title tags with your preferred tag editor.
2. Save any intentional changes outside Neirose, then refresh the library.
3. For missing artwork, check for an embedded cover or a supported cover/folder image beside the music.

Album grouping depends on metadata, so a folder name alone does not guarantee that its tracks appear as one album.

Now Playing sizes cover detail for the display. Under Settings → Appearance → Prefer sharper folder covers, you can use a higher-resolution image from the track’s folder when one is available, or turn the option off to keep embedded artwork.

Supported music formats#

These are the formats Neirose scans and registers for opening. FLAC, WAV, MP3, AIFF, Opus, and Vorbis, including Opus inside WebM or MKA, are decoded by Neirose itself. Playback of M4A, M4B, AAC, WMA, and other MKA audio depends on the codecs installed in Windows. Surround Opus is not supported yet. A recognized extension does not guarantee that a damaged or unsupported encoded file will play.

DSF and uncompressed DFF files support mono or stereo DSD64 through DSD512 at 44.1 or 48 kHz base rates. Playback requires a compatible native ASIO driver in Exclusive mode that accepts the file’s exact DSD rate. Embedded ID3 text and artwork are read when available. See Native DSD for output and volume requirements.

DST-compressed DFF, SACD ISO, multichannel DSD, DoP playback, and DSD-to-PCM conversion are not supported. A DSD file will not play through an ordinary Windows output or Shared mode.

CUE albums#

A disc ripped to one audio file with a CUE sheet beside it, as ExactAudioCopy and similar rippers write, appears as its separate tracks, with titles and performers from the sheet, and plays without gaps between them. Opening or dropping a .cue file adds its tracks. If the sheet names a WAV file that was later compressed, a file with the same name and a supported extension is used instead. Sheets that spread a disc over several files are ignored, since those files are already separate tracks.

After editing the sheet or replacing its disc image, choose Refresh library. Neirose checks both files independently, so a change to either updates the album even when the other stays the same.

1. Open the album’s page in Library → Albums and choose Split into files.
2. In Split into FLAC files?, choose whether to Then move the disc image, CUE sheet, and rip log to the Recycle Bin, and choose Split.
3. Neirose writes one FLAC file per track beside the image, tagged from the sheet with the disc’s artwork.

Each new file is decoded again and compared with the original audio before it gets its final name, and nothing that already exists is overwritten. Cleanup after a stopped or failed split is limited to files that Neirose created; existing files and files created by another program stay untouched. On drives without a Recycle Bin, the original files always stay in place. Playlists that held the album’s tracks switch to the new files.