Another master key for happy library navigation is easy intuitive playlist creation. In the 'my playlist' option on the left menu one creates a new folder and names it. I made one called 'review tracks'. One then right-clicks on any track in the library to bring up an 'add to playlist' command. From there a window scrolls through existing playlist folders. Select where you want to copy the track to and voilà. Again, Audirvana never copies actual music data. Its library index is simply a collection of book marks. Hence deleting a file from a playlist for example does not delete it from the host folder. It just wipes out a shortcut marker.

Here we see my first developing playlist in cover-art view…

… then list view. It's all perfectly basic, intuitive and standard. That includes us deciding which tags to fly other than title, album, artist and time.

A useful display parameter for our library is 'high resolution' as shown next. This organizes all our beyond-Redbook PCM files in one collection. Other sort options are DSD and MQA. As the next view shows too, there's an alphabetical shortcut down the screen's right edge whereby we can jump from A to Z with one mouse click. Of course there's also a search field to write in an artist or album name and pull that up without scrolling for it. Search mode too begins to populate a screen with recently searched album covers. I still have to learn how to reset that screen to 'empty'.

Aside from dark view there's light view, here with the 'audio scan' analyzer window open where Audirvana checks on a track's bit depth, bandwidth and resolution. This is a standard Redbook aka CD quality album whose kind makes up the vast majority of my collection…

… followed by an authenticated 24/96 version back in my preferred dark mode.