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Database
The Database is the first item displayed in the Browser pane. The Database is simply a collection of file folders located
throughout your computer system (even on external disk drives) used to make locating and organizing you music more
efficient. Once a folder is added to the Database, the songs it contains will be listed in the File List whenever you click
on the Database heading. If you have multiple folders assigned to the Database, all the files in all folders will be listed
simultaneously in the File List. Therefore, to use the Database efficiently, you’ll only want to assign folders that contain
music you’d like
to spin.
< Adding Folders to Database
To add a music folder to the Database:
1. Use the browser to search for a folder.
2. Right-click on the folder you want
to add.
3. Choose “Add to database” from the pop-up menu.
4. The folder will then be assigned to the Database (you
can click the “+” in front of Database to see this new
folder listed beneath it).
5. Now, when you click on Database, the contents of
the folder you just assigned will be listed in the File List.
< Adding Multiple Folders
You may find that one folder will contain many folders that you’d like to add to the Database. A great example
of this is when your music is automatically sorted by a program like Apple iTunes. Typically, there will be a folder
for each artist in your collection, and each of these folders will contain individual folders for each album by that
artist. Therefore, if you want to add all the music by this particular artist to the Database, you actually need to
add all of the individual album folders.
To make this easier, Torq includes an option for adding folders, including their subfolders, to the Database:
1. Use the Browser to locate the folder containing the sub-folders you want to add.
2. Right-click (CTRL-click on Mac) the folder and select “Add folder to Database Recursively.” Torq will
automatically add the folder, along with all its sub-folders, to the Database.