Jajuk is divided into perspectives and views. A perspective is a logical set of views. For instance, you can display the physical perspective to navigate into disk files, directories or the logical perspective to navigate into genres, artists, albums and tracks.
A view is located inside a perspective and shows some linked information. For instance, the Physical perspective contains both the Physical Tree view and the Physical Table view.
To change of current perspective, click on the perspective icon of your choice in the Perspective Selector view (see figure 02).
Fig.
01: views
Static views ( in all perspectives ) :
1- Command view:
used to perform searches, to control music player (stop, pause...)
and sound (mute, volume), to navigate in the history, to set play
mode (repeat, shuffle...) and to access smart functions like 'best
of'.
2- Perspective Selector: used to select current perspective
(see next paragraph).
3- Information view: displays various
information, selection size, track quality, position in %...
Contextual views :
4- This is a view example
(physical playlist editor) that you only find in the Physical
perspective.
Jajuk release contains following perspectives :
Physical
perspective: in this perspective, your collection is shown as it is
on your disks: files, directories, m3u files etc. All actions are
performed on an given physical file. This perspective is useful but
note that if you have several times the same track in different
devices (lets say one on your hard disk and one on a CD), you will
see it several times in all views. This is the same for playlist files.
Logical
perspective: in this perspective, your collection is shown following
id3 tags information like genres, artists, albums, tracks and logical
playlists (a logical playlist maps several identical physical m3u
playlists). This perspective is useful only if your collection is
correctly tagged, otherwise everything will be 'unknown'. In
opposition to the physical perspective, you now see tracks, not files.
A
track is a logical mapping to one or more files. It means you will
see a track only once even if you have several physical files for
this track. If you modify a logical playlist, all associated physical
playlists (.m3u files) will be modified together.
Player
perspective: used to show various information while playing tracks:
one animation view with large text area to display track names and
two cover views.
Catalog perspective: display
collection using interactive covers thumbnails.
Configuration
perspective: this contains views to configure Jajuk (options) and to
create or modify devices. A device is a set of physical files (like a
directory on your hard disk, a CD, a music player...).
Statistics
perspective: contains various pies and histograms about your
collection: number of tracks, devices sizes, genres repartition,
collection size.
Help
perspective: Jajuk help
and 'About' view providing various information on the project and the
runtime environment.
Jajuk interface can be organized just like you want it: you can resize, minimize, drag a view and add it to another view as a tab... If you are in trouble, you can reset default views configuration by using the top command view: Views -> restore defaults. Views configuration are saved when closing Jajuk.