Top Request: Navigate music collections by folder in the Groove app

Hey Ellen,

That's a great news! I am happy to share my "folder" structure with you. It is actually based on the one iTunes has created automatically for me:

> Music > Artist > Album > Songs

• Where Artist name is their "famous" name (not their real name, used to do it but was not a good idea). e.g. Pennywise.
• Album is the Album name... currently only the album name... but I might update the whole thing with the release year if available --> AlbumName [(ReleaseDate)]: e.g: Unknown Road (1993), if not available: Unknown Road
• Songs have a more precise and interesting structure --> [CDNumber - ]TrackNumber TrackName: e.g.: 01 Unknown Road.mp3, or 1-01 Bad Romance.mp3, 2-16 Again Again.mp3 (for the first and last songs of "The Fame Monster" album of Lady Gaga).

You can also that almost all the words start with a capital, and the remaining does not have capital letters... although some have a special writing: e.g. .t.A.T.u.

Last but not the least... I have a "Various Artists" folder, where all the tracks for compilations, or weird albums are. "Various Artists" is considered as a normal artist folder.

Regarding your questions:

• play buttons should be on each artist, on each album, with 2 buttons (play all in the logical order, play them in shuffle),  I guess the folder structure is already present with the current artist view, which already shows albums into it and songs in albums. I am very happy with that. What I would add is a second button in the Artists view (with the shuffle logo), and a second button in other views next to "Play all" with "Shuffle all" (or something like that).
• it would be nice if Microsoft Groove could have the option (same as iTunes have) to order the files automatically, and create the files structure on the hard drive based on these info. Best practice, is to keep the same iTunes structure... to stay compatible.
• "Add to" menu, would not be interesting IMHO. But I would love to have "add to now playing", "add as next track" (which will put the track between the current one and the next one).

Hope that helps! Keep the good work :)

Lots of love from a music AND Groove music lover!

I recommend MediaMonkey for editing tags.

I organize my music like Artist\Album\Track - Title.mp3. I don't really care about a folder view, I like the way Groove shows the music. But I would like Groove to automatically organize my music, like iTunes and MediaMonkey can (I use the latter currently). That means, if I copy a new file into my music folder and I checked the option, correctly create folders for artists and albums, move the file to the right place and rename it correctly.

Mostly my folder structure is like:

Artist > Albums >Sound Tracks

I started this because my music collection is originally downloaded from Nokia Music.

(This structure work fantastic, because it recognized all the properties of all the sound tracks. and they combine it and make beautiful album-song-artist structure in "Xbox Music App".

Story changed when I updated my Lumia 930 to windows 10. New Groove App stopped recognizing all the properties of all the sound tracks. And it made one giant album named "Unknown Album". I know that soundtracks are DRM protected that is why it does this thing.

So what I do is I collected all the sound tracks I loved but they are not DRM protected. Obviously they do not have desired Properties so I change properties with Zune Software and also add Album art to album. (This method works in windows 8 and windwos 8.1.

But in Groove Music App, every thing works except album art. Please fix this.

"I am ok with new UI but not loss of functionality"

I hope you got all the answers from me....

All my music is stored in OneDrive. 

Music, which is not stored in OneDrive will be downloaded automatically when I Add them to my collection.

Folder structure looks like this:

<OneDriveFolder>\Music\Artist\YYYY - Album\XY - Song

XY is the ordering numer of the song.

I access my music from my Windows Phone (L950), Tablet (Odys Wintab 9 Plus 3G) and also Desktop (Custom).

On my Desktop and Phone the songs are downloaded to HDD/SD. Since my Tablet is on WiFi all the time and has few storage left, the songs are not downloaded to my tablet. So I have to stream them on my tablet.