> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getmotif.page/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Library overview

> Understand how Motif watches your folders and presents local music through All, Types, Collab, and Custom views.

# Library overview

The Library is the local center of Motif. It reflects supported audio files and related FL Studio projects in the folders you choose.

Motif does not ask you to import copies into a separate media vault. Your files stay where they are. When you add, replace, rename, or remove music inside a watched folder, Motif rescans that location and updates the Library.

## Add Library folders

You choose the first folder during setup. Add or remove locations later under **Settings → Library**.

Motif scans each selected folder and its relevant subfolders. It recognizes common music formats including WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, AAC, OGG, and M4A, and indexes `.flp` projects that can be linked to their exports.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Motif deliberately skips common FL Studio working folders such as backups, rendered folders, stems, recordings, samples, and sliced audio in contexts where indexing them would flood the Library with project internals.

During a scan, small progress indicators can show that Motif is reading files, filling durations, or analysing loops. You can already use the Library while those background passes continue.

## One Library, several views

The sidebar offers different ways to retrieve the same local catalog.

### All

Use **All** for a flat view of every available track. The default order is newest first.

You can filter by track type, sort by date, name, or month, reverse a sort, search by title or metadata, click any row to play it, drag audio out of Motif, and right-click for track actions.

Choosing **month** groups tracks under month headings rather than showing one continuous list.

### Types

Use **Types** when you want Motif to group producer music by style or type-beat tags. A track can appear under more than one card when its name or tags describe several useful styles.

Open a card to see its tracks. From the card you can play the group, sort by date, name, or track count, and add or remove cover art.

### Collab

Use **Collab** to review work grouped around collaborators. Motif derives these groups from creator information such as `@handles` and credited producer names, merges likely aliases, and omits handles that appear to identify you.

Open a collaborator card to see the music associated with that person. Collab has the same sorting, playback, and cover controls as Types.

> [!NOTE]
>
> If only **Artist** is enabled under Creative role, Motif hides the producer-oriented **Types** and **Collab** views. Enable **Producer** or **Both** in Settings when you need those perspectives.

### Custom

Use **Custom** for collections whose purpose and membership you control: packs, release candidates, client shortlists, project references, collaborator selections, or any other working set.

Custom collections do not create a second audio file. They store an organizational relationship inside Motif. Read [Custom collections](https://docs.getmotif.page/library/custom-collections.md) for creation, covers, reordering, editing, and track membership.

## Tracked is intentionally separate

**Tracked** appears in the Library section, but it is not another view of local folders. It follows audio from selected Discord, Telegram, Google Drive, Dropbox, or YouTube sources.

Remote audio stays separate until you explicitly download it and move or drag it into a watched Library folder. See [What Tracked is](https://docs.getmotif.page/tracked/overview.md).

## Creative role changes what appears

* **Producer** — beats and loops, with All, Types, Collab, Custom, and Tracked;
* **Artist** — songs, with All, Custom, and Tracked;
* **Both** — songs, beats, and loops, with the complete set of views.

Change the role under **Settings → Creative role**. Motif re-evaluates the Library in the background after a role change.

## How Motif interprets files

Motif can infer beat, loop, or song type; BPM; key; detune; collaborators; For and By credits; tags; and version markers from file and folder names.

Its interpretation is a starting point, not a restriction. Use **Edit tags** when you know better. A manually selected type is locked so later automatic analysis does not replace it.

## Search and view state

Motif remembers the sort order you chose for each Library segment. Search and type filters apply to the mounted Library view rather than being saved independently for every segment.

Read [Search, filter, sort, and layout](https://docs.getmotif.page/library/search-filter-sort.md) for the exact controls.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Removing a folder from Settings stops watching it and removes its tracks from the current Library view. It does not delete the source folder or its files from Windows.


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