Collection Browser

The main Collection menu allows to select the particular collection topic:

The topic menus are sorted in alphabetical ascending order:

There are two ways to filter the topics:

1. Alphabet UI. Selection of the particular alphabet letter will filter out the topic items and show only items which start from the selected letter.
2. Keyboard UI. The keyboard menu allows to filter out topic items using user-defined strings.

Here is the example of using the Alphabet UI:

The following image shows the example of using the Keyboard UI:

Navigation

Icon	Name	Remote Control (WD TV)	Keyboard	Voice Command	Description
	Previous Page		Page Down	previous page	Switch to the previous page
	Home		Home	home, go home	Go to Home Screen
	Back		Esc	back, go back	Go back to the previous screen
	Collection		M		Open Collection screen
	Topics		M		Open Collection Topics screen
	Alphabet		S	alphabet	Search items by first letter
	Search		R		Open Search screen
	Player		Space	player	Open current player screen
	Next Page		Page Up	next page	Switch to the next page
	Left		Arrow key Left	left, go left	Select item on the left
	Right		Arrow key Right	right, go right	Select item on the right
	Up		Arrow key Up	up, go up	Select item above
	Down		Arrow key Down	down, go down	Select item below
	Select menu item		Enter	okay, select	Select highlighted menu item
	Voice Assistant				Activate/Deactivate Voice Assistant

Browsing through the Collection outside of the player

If there is the need to browse through the collection outside of the Peppy Player the command line tool for doing that can be installed this way:

sudo apt-get install sqlite3

It's available on all major platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows). This tool is also installed on all Peppy Player disk images. The following example shows how to use the command line tool on Windows machine to list all tables used for the Collection functionality by using .tables command (peppy.db is the database filename):

The output from this command shows that there are only two tables used to store the metadata information:

1. metadata table stores the main metadata info such as album, artist, date etc.
2. summary table stores the metadata summary like the total number of genres, artists etc.

The following image shows the example of summary table content for the collection created on Windows machine for c:\music folder.

The next image shows the result of running SQL query for the album named 'The Album'. The query was executed against the metadata table:

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