How-to guides¶
Step-by-step procedures for the common operations. For background and why, see core concepts.
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The Dashboard
Read the health bubbles, work the action queue, and follow the live activity rail.
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Run scans
Discover artists from disk, refresh from connected platforms, schedule recurring runs.
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Edit an artist
Change metadata by hand, lock fields you've curated, override provider IDs.
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Filter the artists list
Narrow the Artists page with tri-state field, image, platform, and status filters.
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Unmatched images
Review, allowlist, or delete unmatched images found on disk.
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Activity feed
Browse and filter the library-wide history of metadata changes, and undo one from its entry.
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Logs viewer
Watch the live-tailing log stream, filter by severity or component, and export for a bug report.
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Customize preferences
Adjust theme, layout density, typography, and per-artist section order from the Preferences drawer.
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Quick Actions
Cycle themes, open the keyboard shortcut reference, and log out from the sidebar Quick Actions bar.
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Refresh metadata
Pull updates from providers for a single artist or a whole library.
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Fetch and crop images
Get artwork from providers or the web, crop in-browser, save canonical filenames.
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Fetch discography
Pull release groups from MusicBrainz and write them into the artist's NFO discography.
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Configure provider priorities
Set which providers Stillwater asks first for each field, globally and per library.
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Enable and configure rules
Turn rules on and off, change automation modes, tune thresholds.
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Export and import settings
Move your configuration to another instance with an encrypted bundle.
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Convert YAML config to TOML
Migrate a deprecated YAML config file to the supported TOML format, section by section.
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Update Stillwater
Apply a new version manually or have Stillwater check for updates.
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Reverse proxy
Front Stillwater with Caddy, Nginx, Traefik, or LSIO SWAG.