The short version is here. Discovery, the library and playback each have a page with the whole of it; anything not built yet is said there rather than left out.
Browse by artwork in three sizes or as a plain list; one button switches. Click a cover and the album opens underneath without losing your place.
Your collection narrows as you type, even with thousands of songs. The song you want lights up with the rest of its album still around it.
Ten sliders shape the bass and treble as you listen. A visualiser in the bottom strip draws the music in any of ten styles. Switched off, the equalizer adds nothing to the sound.
Twenty-one genres with thirty-six styles under them, so a tick means the same thing whatever a label says. Ticking more shows more; albums stating no genre have a box of their own. Two year fields narrow it further. A taste profile puts genres and years back in one choice.
Records made to run straight through play with no silence added between the songs.
File then Back up library keeps ratings, play counts, corrections, settings, taste profiles and discovery answers in one dated zip. Restore from backup checks the zip and asks first, saving your current library before putting the old one back.
One press hands the sound device the track with the system mixer out of the way. A line beside the time says what the device took, including "bit perfect" while that holds. Offered on Windows and macOS for lossless songs at a rate the device takes.
Your own collection finds what you do not own: albums by your artists you never picked up, plus artists close to the ones you love, from MusicBrainz and ListenBrainz.
What goes out, compilations, series and DJ mixes, years, taste profiles, reading and filtering the answer, then taking it to a shop.
How Stellody reads your disk: rescanning only what changed, one folder to one album, box sets, cue sheets and muddled labels handled without touching a file.
Then how it shows it: list or covers, search, genres, ratings, play counts and album art, plus backup and restore.
How it plays: the transport, shuffle and repeat, output devices, gapless albums, the waveform and buffering.
What it does to the sound: a ten band equalizer, a visualiser in ten styles and exclusive output, with exactly when it is bit perfect.
Same size, same place, still maximised if it was. Unplug the big monitor and it still opens somewhere you can reach.
On Windows with monitors at different scaling, maximising fills the screen the title bar is on, not the one Windows judged held most of the window.
Everything is drawn at nine tenths of full size, so the whole window fits a 13 inch 4K laptop
at 300% scaling. Set QT_SCALE_FACTOR before starting it to choose your own size.
Stellody can wait beside the clock; on Windows the setup program can start it there when you sign in. Opening it again brings the window back rather than starting a second copy.
The first time you close the window, Stellody asks whether to tuck it away or quit. Tell it to remember and it never asks again; Ask again when I close, on the File menu, undoes that.
Help then Guide names every button on both trays beside a picture of it. It states the four rules no single screen can: your files are only ever read, folders group while tags name, a correction differs from a stated tag, ratings follow the album rather than the file. It also walks through a discovery search then a backup.
The guide also gives the rules Stellody reads by: one album to a folder, discs of one release side by side, two folders joining where artist and title agree, a cue sheet read only where the folder holds one audio file.
The short version appears before you first choose a music folder, so you can check what you have.
The top tray ends with discovery, the unanswered artists button, the appearance switch and Help, which drops the same menu as Help on the menu bar: the guide, the library health report, the two licences, About and Check for updates.
Everything a picture button does is on the menu bar too, except the donation button and the volume slider.
File chooses the music folder, rescans, backs up, restores and repairs the library, discovers new music and shows the unanswered artists; Edit searches and filters; View switches sleeves and list, sleeve size and visualiser style and goes to the album playing; Sound holds the equalizer, exclusive output, output device, mute, shuffle and repeat; Control plays, pauses, stops and steps between tracks. A tick beside an entry always shows what is really on.