General tab

Theme

  • Theme allows you to switch between a dark and a light theme.

Font-size

  • Font-size allows you to scale up/down the default font-size in Helium

Desktop alerts

  • Desktop alerts configures the handling of desktop alerts
    • Show desktop alerts — shows a pop-up notification on your desktop whenever a new track starts playing. Uncheck to disable all desktop alerts.
    • Show alerts only when Helium is not the active window — limits desktop alerts to only appear when Helium is running in the background. Alerts are suppressed while Helium is your active window.
    • Desktop alert display time (seconds) — controls how long each desktop alert stays visible before disappearing. Set a value between 1 and 10 seconds.

General

  • Show advanced filters will show the advanced filters for views that supports them. it is possible to toggle this setting on/off from the Views menu.
  • Disable window overlay will disable the dimming overlay for the main window when another window is opened if selected.
  • Hide tooltips will disable tooltips for controls if selected.
  • Auto-hide graphic position bar will hide the graphic position bar if a track is not playing
  • Scroll window title will scroll the played tracks title in the window title if selected and the title is too long to be displayed
  • Expand all albums in album details mode will expand (show all tracks) for all albums when working in album details mode.
  • When enabled, Use Colored Icons replaces some of the current theme's icons with a set of colored icons in the Music Explorer and other views.
  • Vertical toolbar will display the toolbar vertically docked at the right. This is ideal for wide/ultra wide screens.

Thumbnails

  • When Do Not Crop and Scale Thumbnails is selected, album, artist, and label thumbnails will always be rendered using their original aspect ratio.
  • Use memory efficient layout (hides overlay controls) will use a more memory efficient rendering template for thumbnail based controls, not supporting the overlay control. All commands are still available via the context-menu.
  • Hide overlay on thumbnails will hide the overlay on card view thumbnails if selected.

Player tab

Player information

  • Player information allows the user to control which information the bottom player will shown. The format is using the Tag to filename engine.
  • Show drop playlist will show the drop-zone in the player where you can drag and drop tracks to for quickly adding them to the selected playlist
  • Show quick moods will show the mood select button which allows you to quickly change mood for the played song.

User Interface tab

Player

  • Hide smart play will hide the smartplay button in the player if selected.
  • Hide visualizations will hide the visualizations button if selected.
  • Hide Auto-enqueue will hide the auto-enqueue button if selected.
  • Hide crossfade will hide the crossfade button if selected.
  • Hide repeat Play queue will hide the repeat play queue button if selected.
  • Hide shuffle will hide the shuffle button if selected.
  • Hide Play queue will hide the Play queue button if selected.
  • Show pitch in player will show the pitch control in the player if selected.

Navigation buttons

  • Navigation buttons controls which buttons that are shown on the left navigation bar. It's also possible to select if it should use large or small icons.
    • Music explorer — shows or hides the Music explorer button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to keep the sidebar tidy if you don't use this view.
    • Releases — shows or hides the Releases button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it from view if you prefer not to browse by release.
    • Artists — shows or hides the Artists button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't browse your library by artist.
    • Labels — shows or hides the Labels button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't browse your library by record label.
    • My computer — shows or hides the My computer button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't use the file-system browser.
    • Tracks — shows or hides the Tracks button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you prefer not to browse all tracks in a flat list.
    • Playlists — shows or hides the Playlists button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't use playlists.
    • Genres — shows or hides the Genres button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't browse your library by genre.
    • Years — shows or hides the Years button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't browse your library by release year.
    • Statistics — shows or hides the Statistics button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't use the listening statistics view.
    • Active track view — shows or hides the Active track view button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you don't use the now-playing detail view.
    • Search results — shows or hides the Search results button in the left navigation bar. Uncheck to remove it if you prefer to navigate search results another way.

General

  • Hide suggested tracks from Now Playing will hide suggested tracks on the Now Playing page if selected.
  • Hide albums in Now Playing will hide albums from the Now Playing page is selected.
  • Show letter navigation bar will show the letter bar for views supporting it which allows the user to quickly jump to the first occurrence of an item's starting letter.
  • Show top image on detail pages will create a dimmed and blurred section of the artist/album picture to use in the summary header.

Advanced tab

Thumbnails

  • Thumbnail size allows you to control the thumbnail size for all thumbnail driven views in Helium
  • Thumbnail aspect ratio allow per-view configuration of thumbnail aspect ratios

Album & artist background

  • Album background allows you to control the default settings for the album details pages
    • Opacity — adjusts how transparent the album artwork appears when used as a background. Drag left for a more see-through effect, right for a more vivid one.
    • Blur — adjusts how blurred the album artwork background appears. Drag right for a softer, more diffused look.
  • Artist background allows you to control the default settings for the artist detail pages
    • Opacity — adjusts how transparent the artist image appears when used as a background. Drag left for a more see-through effect, right for a more vivid one.
    • Blur — adjusts how blurred the artist image background appears. Drag right for a softer, more diffused look.

Spectrogram quality

  • Spectrogram quality allows you to control the render precision of the Spectrogram
  • Hide time markers in waveform/spectrogram will hide the time indicators in the waveform/spectrogram if selected.

System

  • Use mono-space fonts for template controls will force a mono-spaced font to be used in template based controls for better readability.
  • If Deferred Scrolling in Album View is enabled, the page will only render once the scrolling is complete. This can improve performance during updates.
  • If Disable rounded image corners is selected, thumbnails will be rendered without rounded corners.