Create and organize My Music

Add something to My Music

1. Open My Music, then select + on mobile or Add music item on desktop.
2. Enter a Title, or use Connect library piece or exercise (optional) to select library music or a preset. Leave Title blank to use the connected name.
3. Choose a Category and optionally an instrument. Add status, labels, or a description in Item details.
4. Adjust defaults and tracking in Practice settings, then select Add item.

See Choose what to add to My Music for categories and settings. If a matching item already exists, Cadenso points you to it or offers to restore it from the archive.

Edit an item

Open the item’s actions menu and select Edit. You can update its title, category, instrument, status, labels, links, library connection, and practice settings.

Changing the library connection keeps your notes and history. Changing practice defaults or tracking does not rewrite saved sessions. A saved preset keeps its Scales, Arpeggios, or Chords identity.

Change the instrument

Before recording practice, change or remove the instrument directly. After recording practice, save or discard other edits, then select Change beside Instrument:

• Create a separate item opens a prefilled form for another instrument, without copying history, notes, focus areas, or children.
• Correct this item’s instrument updates the item and its practice history, including instrument statistics. Choose the instrument, select Review history update, then confirm Update instrument and history.

Cadenso prevents changes that would duplicate an existing item.

Choose an item status

• Planned — work you want to start later.
• Active — work you are practicing or maintaining.
• Paused — work you intend to return to.
• Finished — work you have completed.
• Abandoned — unfinished work you do not intend to continue.

You can change status anytime. Archiving separately hides an item from your regular workspace.

Organize items

Use the Organization card to group items, such as movements within a sonata:

• Add item → Create new item creates a child item.
• Add item → Move existing item here moves an existing item under this one.
• Move to… in the item’s actions menu changes its parent. Choose Move to top level to remove it from its parent.

Confirm the move to apply it. Notes and practice history stay with the item. For passages or goals within one item, use focus areas.

Children sort naturally by title. Choose Reorder, use the arrow controls, and Save order to arrange them yourself. Reset order restores automatic sorting. New children follow your manually ordered items.

Use Show all to see every child and the header path to return to a parent. Find the item’s full information in Details.

Find your music

Browse by category or use search and filters. Search also finds child items and inherited library titles and composers. On desktop, select More filters for additional options.

Switch between Nested view for the hierarchy and Flat list for individual items. Category filters retain parents for context; search and additional filters show a flat list. Cadenso remembers your preferred view.

Items sort by Last updated by default, which includes edits and notes, but not practice. Desktop also offers Last activity (including practice), Last practiced, and Date added. In Nested view, dates and sorting include non-archived descendants.