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Organize your music

Motif combines automatic views with Custom collections. Neither approach moves or duplicates source audio.

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Choose the right view

  • All is the broadest chronological view and the best place for search.
  • Types is useful when names and tags already describe a sound or style.
  • Collab gathers music around recognized collaborators.
  • Custom is for a purpose files cannot infer: a pack, release plan, client selection, or current project.

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Build a Custom collection

Open Library → Custom, select New category, enter a name, and press Enter. The app calls Custom collections categories. Add tracks by right-clicking a track and choosing Add to category, or drag a track onto a Custom card in the grid or sidebar. Inside a collection you can:
  • play it in its current order with the play button;
  • shuffle it with the shuffle button;
  • select Add tracks and search the Library from a picker;
  • filter eligible tracks by type;
  • enter Edit mode, select several rows, and choose Remove N;
  • drag rows to change their order;
  • remove one track with Remove from Collection.
Removing a track from a collection does not delete it from the Library or Windows.

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Name and arrange collections

Use a collection card’s menu to rename or delete it. Drag cards to establish a manual order. Useful patterns include active packs before archives, one collection per collaborator, release candidates ordered by confidence, or project stages such as Ideas, Finish, Mix, and Ready.

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Add cover art

Types, Collab, Custom, and Tracked cards can use cover art.
  1. Open the card’s … menu.
  2. Choose Change cover art.
  3. Select an image from Windows.
When custom art is present, the menu also offers Remove cover art. Cover art changes the identity of a group, not artwork embedded in an individual audio file.

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Correct automatic organization

Right-click a track and choose Edit tags to correct its type, credits, BPM, key, detune, or tags. Manual edits are stored by Motif and do not rewrite the audio file.

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Use drag and drop

Drag a track out of Motif to hand its audio file to Explorer, a DAW, or another compatible Windows destination. Enable Settings → File Handling → Prefer MP3 when dragging when you normally want a matching MP3 rather than a larger source render. If no matching MP3 exists, Motif uses the available original.
For detailed collection controls, see Custom collections. For individual track actions, see Track details and actions.