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Getting started

• Add your music (the first scan)Point Vesari Stylus at the folder where your music lives, and it builds your whole library for you - reading your files in place, never moving or...
• Themes, accent colours and reduced motionVesari Stylus ships three themes, six accent colours and a switch that takes the animation out of the interface. They sit together in one place, they...
• Checking the bundled surround decoder (DTS, AC-3 & TrueHD)Vesari Stylus plays DTS, AC-3, EAC-3 and TrueHD using a decoder called FFmpeg that ships inside the app. There is nothing to download and nothing to...
• Install Vesari Stylus & first runGetting Vesari Stylus running takes a few minutes: download the installer, click past one harmless Windows notice, and open the app. There's no account...
• A tour of the Vesari Stylus windowEverything in Vesari Stylus happens in one window: a slim bar across the top, destinations down the left, the page you are working on in the middle,...
• From a messy folder to a clean libraryPoint Vesari Stylus at your music folder and it does the heavy lifting - a pile of loose files becomes a browsable, good-looking library, with just a...
• Moving your library to a new PCA new machine, the same music. Vesari Stylus has no backup or restore button, so this is a manual move: install the app, get your music across, point...
• System requirements & compatibilityHere's what Vesari Stylus needs to run, and what to expect on your machine.
• Updating Vesari StylusNew versions arrive as a fresh installer that you run over the top of the one you have. It takes about a minute, and it leaves your library, playlists...
• Where Vesari Stylus keeps your files and settingsTwo separate things live in two separate places. Your music stays wherever you already keep it, and Vesari Stylus only reads it. Everything the app...

Your library

• Cover art: where it comes from and how to fix itEvery cover in Vesari Stylus comes from one of two places on disk, and a third step fetches one when neither exists. Which applies decides whether an...
• Single-file albums and CUE sheetsSome albums arrive as one long audio file plus a small text file saying where each track begins. Vesari Stylus reads that text file and gives you the...
• Favourites: the heart buttonThe heart marks a track you love. It takes one click, it carries no allowance, and what it records goes into your library rather than into the audio file.
• Every Library Health category, explainedLibrary Health tallies every track in your library and sorts what it finds into twenty-one cards. Open it from Library Health in the sidebar: the...
• Library Health & finding duplicatesLibrary Health scans your whole collection for the small problems that build up over the years - missing tags, absent cover art, duplicate copies,...
• Your listening historyVesari Stylus keeps a quiet record of what you play. There is no page in the app today that lists your plays one by one, but the record is there, it...
• The Home screen, panel by panelHome is where Vesari Stylus opens: a few numbers about your collection, an album to start with, your playlists, your queue, and a panel following...
• Import music from a USB drive or another folderYou have an album on a USB stick, or a folder of downloads, and you want it in your library. Import Music copies those files into a library folder and...
• Lyrics: fetching, timed lyrics and .lrc filesVesari Stylus shows lyrics beside whatever is playing, scrolling in time when a timed copy exists. Lyrics are free on every tier. Here is where they...
• Where tags and artwork come fromEvery title, artist, album, genre and cover image in Vesari Stylus comes from one of a handful of places. This page lists them, and which cost anything.
• Using a NAS or network share as your libraryVesari Stylus indexes a NAS or a Windows network share the same way it indexes a local drive. Everything that differs comes back to one fact: a share...
• PlaylistsPlaylists let you gather tracks into your own lists - build one, add music to it, put the songs in the order you like, and it will be waiting for you...
• Quality Analysis - spotting fake hi-res and fake losslessQuality Analysis looks inside your files to check whether the audio really is what the label claims. A file can say "24-bit / 96 kHz hi-res" or...
• Quarantine: how removed copies are kept, restored and purgedWhen you clear out duplicate copies, Vesari Stylus never deletes them. Each one goes into a holding area called quarantine, inside your own music...
• Rediscovery - surface music you forgotYour Home screen quietly resurfaces music from your own library - records you loved and drifted away from, things you've never played, and what you're...
• How scanning works: first scan, rescan and watch foldersVesari Stylus builds your library out of the folders you point it at. Here is what the first scan does, what a rescan does differently, and why most...
• Finding music: search, filters and the three viewsVesari Stylus has two search boxes that do different jobs, plus a row of controls that changes how the Library is laid out. Once you know which does...
• Super-Tag - automatic tagging and artworkSuper-Tag fills in the missing titles, artists, album names and cover art across your library by identifying each recording from the sound itself - not...
• The tag editor - fix tags by handWhen automatic tagging gets something wrong, or a track arrives with no metadata at all, the tag editor lets you type the details in yourself - for one...
• Tagging DTS, AC-3 and WAV files (.tags sidecars)Some audio formats have nowhere inside them to put a title, an artist or an album. For those, Vesari Stylus keeps the tags in a small companion file...

Playback & output

• Channel separation - why a little sound leaks into the "other" earYou play something panned hard to one side - a one-channel test track, an old recording with an instrument mixed fully left, or a stereo track with...
• Output meters - VFD, VU, PPM & LUFSDSP Rack → Output panel. Several ways to see how loud the music is. They're display only - reading them never changes the sound .
• Bit-Perfect mode: the bypass switch, and the badge it is notTwo things in Vesari Stylus carry the words bit-perfect, and they answer different questions. One is a switch you flick. The other is a readout the app...
• The Devices pageDevices in the left sidebar is the app's read-out of your output: which device your music is going to, at what rate and depth, which engine is carrying...
• Gapless, ReplayGain & CUE sheetsThree features that let albums play the way they were meant to - no silence between tracks, no reaching for the volume knob, and whole-disc rips that...
• Now Playing: the side pane and full screenVesari Stylus keeps the current track in front of you in three places: the player along the bottom of every page, a taller Now Playing pane on Home,...
• Choosing an output mode: Shared, Exclusive & ASIOVesari Stylus can hand your music to your audio device in a few different ways. Here's how to pick the one that fits how you listen.
• The play queue & "Up Next"Every time you start a track, Vesari Stylus builds a play queue around it - so when the song ends, the next one is ready to go. Here's how that queue...
• ReplayGain: what it does and how to use itSome records are mastered loud and some quiet, so a mixed playlist can swing wildly in level. ReplayGain evens that out by turning each track up or...
• Shuffle, shuffle by album or artist, and repeatVesari Stylus has two kinds of shuffle. One picks a random track each time the music moves on. The other builds a scrambled running order up front, and...
• The signal path & the bit-perfect badgeVesari Stylus shows you exactly what happens to your music between the file on disk and your audio device, and it's honest about whether the sound is...
• Supported audio formatsVesari Stylus plays just about anything in a typical music collection, and the trickier surround formats work the moment you install it - nothing extra...
• Volume, unity gain and vocal duckingVesari Stylus has one volume slider, and it sits at the very end of the app's own processing. That is why Bit-Perfect mode freezes it, with an At unity...

DSP Rack

• Crossfeed - easier headphone listeningCrossfeed blends a little of each stereo channel into the other, so hard-panned recordings feel less like they're happening inside your head on headphones.
• The graphic EQ & presetsThe graphic equalizer is the quick, everyday way to shape your sound - ten sliders you nudge until a track sits right, with ready-made presets to start...
• What is in the DSP RackDSP Rack is where you shape what you hear and watch what the app is doing to it. Everything on the page is one of two things: a processor with...
• The spectrum analyser and visualiserThe Spectrum panel in the DSP Rack draws the frequency content of whatever is playing, bar by bar, live. It is a window onto the sound rather than a...
• Parametric EQ - surgical tone controlDSP Rack → Parametric EQ , or Settings → Parametric EQ . A parametric EQ lets you boost or cut any frequency, by any amount, over any width - as many...

CD ripping

• The disc was not identified, or the wrong edition matchedYou put a CD in the drive and either the album details never arrived, or they describe a different pressing to the one in your hand. Identifying a disc...
• Play a CD straight from the driveYou can drop a disc in and listen right away, without ripping it first - the CD deck plays your tracks live off the disc, like a classic hi-fi CD player.
• Rip a CD to your libraryPut a disc in your drive and Vesari reads it, works out what album it is, and saves lossless copies into your library - tagged, with artwork, ready to...
• A rip failed or stopped part-wayA rip can go wrong three ways: one track with a red badge, a rip that stopped with an error, or a Stop you pressed. Each leaves something different behind.
• Reading the rip log & the "unverified" badgeAfter you rip a CD, Vesari saves an EAC-style rip log so you can see exactly what happened - which tracks read cleanly, their checksums, and how they...
• Rip settings: drive, secure or burst, and where files landEvery choice a rip depends on lives on one page, and it is not in Settings. Open Tools, pick the Vesari RipCore card, and there it all is: which drive,...

Remote listening

• Listening away from home (Tailscale)You can reach your own music library from your phone - on the road, at work, anywhere - without opening your home network to the internet. The trick is...
• Choosing and setting up a phone appVesari Stylus has no phone app of its own. It runs a small OpenSubsonic server instead, so the app on your phone is yours to choose. Here is how to...
• Remote access: certificates, passwords and the Windows firewallVesari Stylus can serve your library to phones, tablets and other players on your network, but not until you switch it on. Do that and three things...
• Stream your library to your phoneYour whole library can play on your phone, in the car, or on another hi-fi endpoint - Vesari Stylus has a small streaming server built in, and...

Licensing & trial

• Activating your licenceWhen you buy Pro or Lifetime, you turn your existing Free or trial install into your paid tier by entering a licence key - there's no account to create...
• What the free allowance covers, and how it is countedFree plays your whole library forever, and hands you a real, measured amount of the heavy library tools on top. This page sets out how much you get,...
• Machines, activation slots and deactivatingOne key, more than one computer. This page covers how Vesari Stylus decides what "this machine" is, what the Deactivate button really does, and what to...
• Using the app offline, and what reconnect meansVesari Stylus does not need the internet to play music. An activated paid licence does check in with our server now and then, so this page sets out how...
• Billing, taxes & refundsHere's how paying for Vesari Stylus works: who handles your money, what tax you'll pay, and how to reach a human about a refund.
• Free, Pro & Lifetime - what each tier includesEvery tier plays your whole library forever - the differences are the library power tools and the premium output lab. Here is the full picture, and it...
• Your free trial - and what happens when it endsEvery new install starts with a 30-day trial that unlocks the power tools and premium output, and when it ends nothing is taken away from your music.
• Upgrades, new versions & no subscriptionYou buy Vesari Stylus once and it's yours. There's no subscription, ever, and nothing you rely on is ever taken away.

Privacy

• What the online lookups sendWhen you use Super-Tag, fetch cover art, or fetch lyrics, Vesari Stylus asks a public music database for help - and it sends only what's needed to...
• Privacy: no account, no trackingThere is no account to create and nothing watching what you play. Your listening history and your ratings stay on your machine, and nothing about your...

Troubleshooting

• An album shows twice, or only some of its tracks appearThe same record sits in Albums twice, its tracks split between the tiles. Or an album holds seven tracks when the folder holds twelve. Both are...
• The app says Not Responding during a scan or a big jobWindows has greyed out the window and marked it "Not Responding" in the taskbar while a scan is running. Almost every time, the job is still going and...
• ASIO is greyed out in the output listYou went to choose ASIO as your output mode and found it greyed out. That is not a fault on your machine, and no driver you install will change it....
• The badge and the signal path disagreeYou have Bit-Perfect mode on and WASAPI Exclusive selected. Open Signal Path and every processing stage reads Bypassed. Yet the Bit-perfect row on the...
• The app opens to a blank white windowVesari Stylus starts, a window appears, and there is nothing in it. No player, no sidebar, not even the buttons in the top corner. The window is real,...
• Artwork I fetched vanishes after a rescanYou pressed Online on the Missing artwork card in Library Health, covers filled in across the albums that had none, and a rescan later the count...
• I pressed Cancel but the track or album was removed anywayYou stopped a job partway through, went back to your library, and something is not where you left it. Here is what stopping does, what it cannot take...
• The output device changed on its ownYour music was playing through one device, then it jumped to another and a brief notice appeared telling you so. Nothing is broken - here's what...
• My DSD files have a dead seek bar, or are flagged as damagedTwo faults used to land on .dsf and .dff files: the seek bar had no scale and no total time, and Library Health counted them as damaged. Both are...
• Why do I see two different "duplicate" numbers?Your library view says something like "88 duplicates hidden," but when you open Fix Library → Duplicate tracks it offers only a handful to clean up....
• Boosting the EQ causes distortionIf turning up an EQ band makes the sound crackle or break up, the boost is pushing the audio past its ceiling - here's how to keep it clean.
• No other app can play sound while Vesari Stylus is openYou pressed play and the rest of your PC went quiet: no notification pings, no sound from a video in your browser, nothing from a game. Vesari Stylus...
• Exclusive output won't start (it falls back to Shared)You switched Vesari Stylus to Exclusive output, and instead of taking over your audio device it dropped back to Shared - with a warning naming your...
• Exclusive output connects but sounds silent, garbled or lopsidedExclusive mode started, the transport is running and the timer is moving, but what comes out is wrong: silence, a slurred mess, or a stereo image that...
• The first DTS or AC-3 track can take a minute or two to startYou press play on a DTS, AC-3 or TrueHD track and nothing happens for a long moment. Then it plays normally, and so does every surround track after it....
• The issue counts disagree, or do not go down after I fix thingsLibrary Health puts numbers on screen in several shapes at once, and they are not meant to add up. Several cards can show the same large figure on a...
• Is this a bug? How to report itSomething in Vesari Stylus doesn't look right, and you're not sure whether it's a setting on your end or a genuine fault. Here's how to tell the...
• I paid but the app says Free, or the trial ended earlyYour status line reads Free, or something you do not recognise, when you expected Pro or Lifetime. Or your trial ran out early. There is a short list...
• Lyrics will not fetch, or come back unsyncedYou pressed Fetch from LRCLIB and got No lyrics found on LRCLIB. Or words arrived, but they sit still instead of scrolling with the song. Most causes...
• My NAS folder is rejected, or tags will not save over the shareMusic on a network share plays perfectly, then the folder will not stay added, or a tag edit fails on a file you can plainly read. Two problems, with...
• I added music but the app does not see itYou copied an album into your music folder, or downloaded something new, and it is not in the library. It is nearly always one of these, most likely first.
• No sound - or DTS / AC-3 / TrueHD plays silentIf a few tracks are silent but the rest of your library plays fine, those tracks are almost certainly DTS, AC-3, or TrueHD - surround formats that...
• Playback stutters, drops out or skipsThe music breaks up: short gaps, a stumble every few seconds, or a fade to silence and back. Almost always the audio is simply not reaching the output...
• I moved duplicates to quarantine and cannot find the filesYou cleaned up some duplicate copies, went looking for them on disk, and they are not where they used to be. They have not been deleted. They were...
• Reading the application logWhen something goes wrong and you want to know why, Vesari Stylus has already written it down. The log is plain text, and it is worth a look before you...
• My phone cannot reach the libraryYou added your PC to an OpenSubsonic app, pressed connect, and got a timeout, a certificate complaint or a flat refusal. Nearly every case is one of...
• I sent a bug report and heard nothingYou filled in the in-app form, it confirmed the report had gone, and then nothing came back. That is the expected outcome today, and it does not mean...
• The seek bar or track time looks wrongIf the seek bar or the elapsed and remaining time misbehaves on an album that's stored as one big file split into tracks, this should now be fixed -...
• Super-Tag said it applied but nothing changedYou ran Super-Tag, it worked through the list, and afterwards the library looks much the same. Here is how to read what it told you.
• Auto-tagging replaced tags and artwork I had curatedYou ran Super-Tag and came back to find titles, artists or album names you had set yourself replaced. Here is which fields a match can change, which it...
• Titles show boxes instead of apostrophesA track called Can't Stop Loving You shows up as Can□t Stop Loving You, or an accented name arrives full of stray symbols. That is a text encoding...
• A track won't play or is flagged damagedWhen a single track refuses to start - or shows up marked as damaged or a decode error - it's almost always that one file, not your whole library....
• The app never updates, or I cannot tell which version I haveIf you have been waiting for Vesari Stylus to offer you a new version and nothing has ever appeared, nothing is broken and there is nothing to diagnose.
• Tags will not save to a WAV fileYou edited a WAV's title or artist, pressed Save, and the change did not stick, or a notice said it went to the library only. WAV is the awkward format...
• Tracks show wrong tags, or "no metadata found"If some tracks show up as "Track 01," "Track 02"… with no artist or album - or a disc you ripped landed scattered across a handful of random,...

Reference

• Glossary of the terms this help usesShort definitions of the vocabulary these pages use. Where a term has an article of its own, the entry points at it.
• Keyboard shortcuts and accessibilityVesari Stylus has one true keyboard shortcut and a lot of ordinary Tab-and-Enter behaviour. This page lists what is bound today, what the sliders do...
• Known limitations and what is comingEvery app has a list of things it does not do. Most keep quiet about it. This is ours, so you can decide whether Vesari Stylus suits you before...
• Settings reference: every tab and controlSettings is the last stop on the navigation rail, and opens as a full page split into eight tabs. Nothing here decides whether your music plays: your...