Library Sections in Mornye: Albums, Artists and Shelves That Stay Tidy

Two kinds of order

A music library needs two kinds of order at once. The first is factual: albums under their album names, artists under theirs, everything findable. The second is personal: shelves arranged the way you actually think about music. The Mornye music app gives you both, and this guide is about keeping them in balance.

The factual backbone builds itself at scan time from your files' tags. The personal layer, sections, is yours to shape, and it is where a large library turns from a warehouse into a home.

The backbone: albums and artists

Albums and artists views reward tidy tags and punish sloppy ones, gently but honestly. One artist spelled two ways becomes two artists. One album whose tracks disagree about its title becomes two half-albums on the shelf.

You do not need perfection. Fix the artists you love first, since they are the shelves you browse most, and let the long tail be slightly feral. Our organising guide covers the file habits that make this a five-minute weekly job instead of a project. Our notes on setting up your first Mornye library cover the neighbouring half of this topic.

Sections: shelves with opinions

A section is a shelf you curate: new arrivals, heavy rotation, Sunday cooking, the records from one beloved year of your life. Unlike the backbone, sections carry opinions, and that is their entire value.

Build sections around occasions and moods rather than genres alone. Genre shelves duplicate what tags already know. Occasion shelves know something only you know: what this music is for, in your actual week. The Mornye music player simply gives that order a well-made, good-looking home.

Shelves that stay tidy

Three habits keep sections useful. Keep the count low enough to remember. Review one shelf whenever you add a batch of music, moving arrivals to their homes while the decision is fresh. And let shelves empty as well as fill; a record that graduated to heavy rotation does not need to live in new arrivals forever.

Once a season, walk the shelves like a bookseller: face the good stuff outward, retire what no longer earns its place, and notice what your arranging says about your year. Listeners consistently tell us this small ritual becomes a pleasure in itself. There is more on this in building Mornye playlists for real life, written from the same test library.

When the library outgrows the system

Every long-kept library eventually contains a corner that defies the system: live tapes, demos, recordings of family. Give that corner its own honestly named section rather than forcing it into the backbone's categories.

A library that admits its odd corners stays browsable, because nothing is pretending to be something it is not. Mornye's sections make that honesty easy, which is a quieter feature than hi-res playback and, over years, just as valuable. For Mornye for Android, that is simply how listening should work: your files, your order, your evening, with nothing in the way.