Library Management

Kombiner’s main view is a high-performance track table that holds your entire music collection. Whether you have a few hundred tracks or tens of thousands, the table stays responsive because it renders only the rows that are visible on screen at any given moment — what’s called virtual scrolling.

The Track Table

Columns

Each row represents one track. The following columns are available:

Sorting

Click any column header to sort by that column. Click it again to reverse the sort direction. An arrow indicator in the header shows the current sort column and direction. Sorting is applied on top of any active filters — you always see a sorted, filtered view.

Selecting Tracks

Kombiner supports three selection modes so you can target exactly the rows you need.

Single selection

Click a row to select it and deselect everything else. The selected row is highlighted.

Range selection

Hold Shift and click a second row to select all rows between the previously selected row and the one you clicked — inclusive. This works in the current sort/filter order, so what you see is what gets selected.

Additive / toggle selection

Hold Cmd (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) and click a row to add it to the current selection without clearing the rest. Click an already-selected row with Cmd/Ctrl held to deselect just that row. This lets you build up an arbitrary set of non-contiguous rows.

Inline Cell Editing

You can edit track metadata directly in the table without opening a separate dialog. The editable columns are: Title, Artist, BPM, Key, Genre, and Subgenre.

To edit a cell:

1. Double-click the cell you want to change.
2. The cell switches to an input field (text box or dropdown depending on the field).
3. Type the new value.
4. Press Enter or click elsewhere to commit the change.
5. Press Escape to discard the change and revert to the original value.

Edits are saved immediately to Kombiner’s local database. If the track also has a file on disk, Kombiner can write the updated tag to the file.

Tip: BPM accepts decimals (e.g. 128.0). Key uses Camelot notation (e.g. 8A, 11B).

Right-Click Context Menu

Right-clicking any row (or any row within a multi-selection) opens a context menu with per-track and per-selection actions:

When multiple rows are selected and you right-click, the menu actions apply to the entire selection.

My Collection vs My Favorites

The sidebar navigation has two top-level library views:

My Collection

This is your complete library — every track that has been imported, regardless of whether it has a file, has been enriched, or has been favorited. All filters and sorts apply here. This is the primary working view.

My Favorites

This view shows only the tracks you have marked as favorites (the ⭐︎ icon). Favorites are a persistent flag stored per-track and are visible across all views and playlists. Use this view to maintain a curated shortlist — essentials for an upcoming set, tracks you want to review, or anything else you want to keep close at hand.

To toggle a favorite, right-click the track and choose Toggle Favorite, or click the star icon in the track row (if visible in your current column layout).

Soft Delete and the Bin

Deleting a track in Kombiner is non-destructive by default. Tracks sent to the Bin are:

• Hidden from My Collection and My Favorites.
• Not deleted from disk — the audio file is untouched.
• Recoverable at any time from the Bin view in the sidebar.

To move a track to the Bin:

• Select one or more tracks and click Delete in the bulk actions toolbar, or
• Right-click and choose Delete from the context menu.

To recover a track from the Bin:

• Navigate to the Bin in the sidebar.
• Select the track(s) you want to restore.
• Click Restore in the bulk actions toolbar or right-click and choose Restore.