The familiar design brings navigation, track selection, favourites, filters and genuine crossfade together. These are the current workflow and first steps with the demo.
Player is on the left and Management on the right. Green framed Back to start selection buttons stay visible at the top and on the right of the fixed player, even after scrolling. Exit Musikregal is a red button on the start screen only. Management uses five clear menu groups. Menus need no scrolling; long data lists have their own area. Controls do not cover track rows.
Search titles, artists or albums. Exact complete matches appear first. If the intended search is unclear, choose Search term at the beginning or Search term in the text. Tick tracks on the left: the selection count is shown; All on this page affects only the current page. Play selection starts the marked tracks; Queue selection adds them to the queue. Combine genres and confirmed song languages. All removes that particular filter; Reset removes search and filter restrictions.
Plus queues a track; Play starts playback. Clear queue removes upcoming tracks while the current track continues at its position and then ends. The count shows upcoming tracks. The heart appears only in the fixed player and always favourites the currently displayed track, even after the results have been scrolled elsewhere. Its state follows track changes. Saved playlists and favourites remain available; removing list entries does not delete audio files.
Play, pause, skip, seek and adjust volume. Crossfade can be off or set from 1 to 10 seconds. With 5 seconds, the next track starts during the current track’s final 5 seconds: both play together while the old one fades out and the new one fades in. The new track has then played for about 5 seconds. The next track is prepared in advance; the setting does not create a waiting pause. Unavailable or unreadable sources can still cause loading problems.
The library reads available file tags and keeps the original values. Song languages come from suitable tags or confirmed index assignments. Common language codes are normalized. Missing assignments remain Unknown; a foreign-language title alone does not establish the song language. Source availability and missing metadata are separate facts. Music files are not retagged.
Extract the complete Windows package into its own empty folder; matching ZIP parts belong in the same destination. Run Musikregal.exe from the Musikregal folder. Keep the Daten folder beside it. A fresh demo starts empty or loads 100 fictional media items on explicit request. Select your own audio files as sources. Back up existing installations and data first; this complete package is not an automatic-update package.