Managing Your Collection

Your Collection

DeepGrooves organizes your physical music collection in one place. Browse, sort, filter, and group your records by artist, genre, folder, condition, rating, format, value, or any other detail you care about.

Library Views

Switch between the main library views using the sidebar.

1. Click Collection to see records you own.
2. Click Wishlist to see records you want, are watching, or want to upgrade.
3. Click Favorites to see owned records marked as favorites.

Counts In The Sidebar And Header

DeepGrooves uses a few different count types because real collections are messy.

Count	What it means
Copies	Physical or digital items you own. If you own two copies of the same release, that is two copies.
Wants	Wishlist entries you are hunting for.
Favorites	Owned copies you marked as favorites.
Albums or release rows	Grouped browsing rows. Several owned copies can collapse into one album/release row.

The sidebar labels units such as copies, wants, and favorites so the numbers are not floating totals. The main Collection, Wishlist, and Favorites headers stay quiet when you are looking at the full unfiltered view. When you search, pick a genre, open a folder, apply filters, or otherwise narrow the view, the header can show the current result count.

This is intentional. It keeps the page from showing two similar-looking numbers that are actually counting different things.

Quick Search

Use the search bar in the toolbar to filter albums by title, artist name, label, catalog number, format, country, year, notes, and other searchable metadata.

Search is meant to be forgiving. You do not always need to type the full title from the beginning. A memorable phrase from the title can still find a longer album title, and punctuation differences such as straight or curly apostrophes should not block a useful match.

1. Click the search bar.
2. Type your search terms.
3. Results update as you type.

Search Troubleshooting

• No results - Try fewer words, a memorable title phrase, the artist name, the label, or the catalog number.
• Results are too broad - Add another title word, artist name, label, year, format, or catalog number.
• Results do not update - Clear active filters first.

Advanced Filters

Click Filters to open the advanced filter panel.

1. Click Filters in the toolbar.
2. Set your criteria.
3. Click Apply.
4. Active filters appear as badges.
5. Click Clear All to reset.

Available filters may include:

• media format,
• media or sleeve condition,
• year range,
• rating,
• country,
• notes,
• favorite, wishlist, or upgrade-watch state,
• folders and tags,
• collectibility flags such as autographed, promo, limited edition, first pressing, or colored vinyl.

Sorting

Click the Sort dropdown to change how albums are ordered.

Sort Option	Description
Artist	Alphabetically by artist name
Title	Alphabetically by album title
Year	By release year
Date Added	Most recently added first
Rating	Highest rated first
Condition	Best condition first
Value	Highest value first

Use the direction control to toggle ascending or descending order.

Grouping

Use grouping when you want the library to feel less like one long grid.

Group Option	Description
None	Single flat list
Decade	By release decade
Genre	By music genre
Artist	By artist name
Folder or saved view	By your personal organization where supported

Each group header shows the count of rows in that group. In grouped views, a row may represent an album/release rather than every physical copy.

View Modes

Toggle between display modes using the view buttons.

View	Best For
Grid	Visual browsing by cover art
List	Scanning metadata quickly
Folders or grouped views	Browsing by personal organization or collection shape

Selecting Albums

Click any album to open the album flyout. This shows details without losing your place in the current view.

Use multi-select when you want to work on several records at once.

1. Click the multi-select control when available.
2. Click albums to select or deselect them.
3. Use Select All to select all visible albums.
4. Use Cancel or Esc to exit.

Bulk Actions

With albums selected, the toolbar shows bulk action buttons.

Action	Description
Add to Folder	Assign selected albums to a folder
Favorite	Toggle favorite status for selected records
Delete	Remove selected records from your collection
Assign Location	Set Vault storage location for selected records where supported

Bulk actions should apply only to the selected records. Read confirmation dialogs carefully, especially for delete actions.

Sidebar Navigation

The sidebar provides quick access to library scopes, tools, genres, folders, and pinned Smart Collections where available.

Section	Purpose
Library	Collection, Wishlist, Favorites
Tools	Discover, Store Mode, Next, Smart Collections, Health, Vault, and Statistics
Genres	Filter by genre
Folders	Your custom folder hierarchy
Smart Collections	Saved dynamic views

Click any genre, folder, or saved view to scope the collection. Filtered and scoped views can show a result count in the page header; the all-view header does not show a competing total.

Drag And Drop

Where supported, drag records from the collection grid to folders in the sidebar.

1. Click and hold a record cover.
2. Drag to a folder in the sidebar.
3. Release to add the record to that folder.

If drag and drop is awkward on your device, use the album action menu or bulk folder action instead.

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Related topics:

• adding-albums
• album-detail
• folders
• discogs-search
• bulk-operations
• vault