How Trellis lays out your library
Where the library sits, and where a recording ends up inside it.
A library Trellis created for you is a folder called Trellis Music Library
with four folders inside it.
| Folder | What it holds |
|---|---|
Library | Everything that is in your collection |
Download | Where new material lands before you have looked at it |
Backlog | Shows you have not decided about yet |
Workshop | Shows that need work before they belong in the library |
A library you already had is the folder you picked during setup, and the three working folders are whichever ones you pointed Trellis at.
Where a recording lands
A recording added to the library is filed under the artist, one folder per
recording, at something like Grateful Dead/Grateful Dead - 1977-05-08 - Barton Hall - Ithaca, NY (SBD).
The name is built from the metadata, with the source in parentheses at the end when there is one.
Inside a recording folder
Audio sits flat in the folder root, even when the show arrived as CD1 and
CD2 subfolders, renamed to its track number and title
(01 - Morning Dew.flac), numbered continuously across the sets.
Everything else stays as it came: the info file, the checksum lists and the artwork, under their original names and in any subfolders they arrived in.
Folders Trellis keeps for itself
Photos you add to a musician, a venue or an event go under _musicians,
_venues and _events at the top of the library. An artist’s photos sit in an
_images folder beside that artist’s recordings. A scan steps over anything
whose name starts with an underscore.
The folder name follows the metadata
Correct a date or a venue and Trellis renames the folder to match.
Moving a recording out
Sending a recording to Workshop or Backlog moves the folder there and marks the recording Out of Library.
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