# The &elisa; Handbook

## Introduction

&elisa; is a music player designed to be simple to use. It gets your music from local sources either Baloo indexer or an internal music indexer.

&elisa; allows you to browse your music, build a playlist and plays it.

## Using &elisa;

Here's a screenshot of &elisa; start screen Screenshot

There are no special requirements for use of &elisa;. Currently the only supported indexer is Baloo but support for Tracker and the indexer generally available on Windows are planned. It is also possible to have &elisa; index your music by itself.

You can find a list of changes at Elisa Project.

Currently no configuration is required before use of &elisa;. You can explore the menu of application to see the customization possibilities.

If you use the internal music indexer, you can configure the paths that will be searched.

### &elisa; features

&elisa; provides two different tasks: browsing your music to build a playlist and playing music.

#### Browsing Music

From the different sources of music, it collects all your music and analyses their metadata such that their title, artist, ... It provides three ways to browse your music: a list of all albums, a list of all artists or a list of all tracks.

Each method uses a view of all your music along with a filter to allow to quickly find what you are looking for. You can also filter by rating.

The filter of the view of all albums is implemented on the title or the artist of albums or the list of artists of each track of an album. The filter of the view of all artists is implemented on the name of the artists. The filter of the view of all tracks is implemented on the track title, track artist and track album name (if any).

#### Building a Playlist

When browsing your music, artists, albums and tracks can be added with a button shown when mouse is over it. It is also possible to clear the playlist and at the same time add some music.

A toolbar below the playlist allow to operate on it. Currently it is possible to clear it or to navigate to the currently playing track.

#### Playing Music

The playlist is read in the order of the tracks unless the Shuffle option is selected. At the end of the list playing is stopped unless the Repeat option is selected.

It is possible to switch to the next or previous track in the list. If the mouse is over a track, it is possible to skip to it by pressing a button.

The currently playing track is indicated by a flashing play icon.

## Credits and License

&elisa;

Program copyright 2015-2017 Matthieu Gallien matthieu_gallien@yahoo.fr

Contributors:

- Andrew Lake (concept and design work)jamboarder@gmail.com

- Luigi Toscano (localizations)luigi.toscano@tiscali.it

- Safa Alfulaij (right-to-left support in interface)safa1996alfulaij@gmail.com

Documentation Copyright © 2017 Matthieu Gallien matthieu_gallien@yahoo.fr

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