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3. Wait for the import process to complete (about 1 minute per 10,000 songs).
4. You're all set! Your music library is now ready to use.

### Playing Music
### Playing Songs

* Double click on a song to play it
* Use the playback controls at the bottom of the app to pause, skip, adjust volume, shuffle, or enable song-repeat.

<img width="749" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-15 at 8 39 53 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d21bf27-d808-49fb-b5ba-7108454c0dcc">

### Adding New Songs
### Importing Songs

1. Click the "+" icon in the top right corner of hihat.
2. Select the songs or folders of songs you want to add.
3. hihat will copy these files into your library folder.

<img width="747" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-15 at 8 40 37 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/eb899b57-99a5-4110-8873-83bec7f6970a">

### Updating Your Library
### Rescanning Your Library

If you've added songs to your library folder manually that hihat is unaware of:
If you've added songs to your library manually, hihat will not see them. To scan them in:
1. Go to the hihat menu.
2. Select "Rescan Library Folder".
3. hihat will update its database with any new songs while preserving play counts and dates for existing tracks.

<img width="677" alt="Screenshot 2024-09-15 at 8 37 54 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ac58659-bf89-420a-a69f-0f1d04aefb38">

### Filtering Your Library

There is a search bar in the top right for searching through your library.

<img width="754" alt="Screenshot_2024-10-27_at_9_48_50 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dd01f664-7d8e-42bd-85d0-69ac721c14ce">

### Sorting Your Library

By clicking on the table headers of your library, you can sort by:
* Song
* Album Artist
* Album
* Duration
* Date Added
* Playcount

<img width="751" alt="Screenshot_2024-10-27_at_9_49_32 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f2b3db65-0572-4e0f-ac6a-e0f9c099c9ea">

### Tips

* Use the search bar to quickly find songs.
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- [ ] Toggle column visibility in the explorer
- [ ] iTunes-1.0-like browser with list of artists or albums
- [ ] Queue next-up song
- [ ] Playlist support


See the [open issues](https://github.com/johnnyshankman/hihat/issues) for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).
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