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

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Week after week we hear the request to add the ability to navigate music collections by folder in the Groove app. We're thinking about how to build it the right way and would love more detailed feedback.

How do you organize your collection by folder? A folder per album? A folder per artist? A folder by season?

Once we expose your folder structure in Groove, how do you expect to interact with them? Play buttons on each folder? Should your folders be included in the "Add to" menus?

Tell us your story. We're listening.

Thanks!

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Anonymous

2016-07-06T12:59:32+00:00

I can't wait to see what backwards, user hostile disaster MS uses this "Feedback Request" to justify this time around.
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Anonymous

2016-07-06T11:00:24+00:00

Generally, it's:

Music > Artist > Album > Songs

But could also be:

Music > Collections > Album > Songs

Music > Soundtracks > Game > Songs

or for multi-disc albums

Music > Artist > Album > Disc 1 > Songs

But that shouldn't matter. Why I want folder-based navigation is so that I can navigate through my music in a way that makes sense to me. Using the tags for navigation has never really worked for me. Different players sort things differently and especially collection albums get split up a lot when I don't want them to.

Ideally I'd be able to hit a play button on a folder and it would play everything in that folder - including its subfolders.

Shuffle, Add to playlist, Add to 'Now Playing', would also be welcome.

Also nice would be if the player could display an image file if found in those folders - an album art image, artist photos, or anything else, really.

The music player should never add anything to these folders - they should be considered read-only.
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Anonymous

2016-07-06T10:48:20+00:00

My folder organisation for my music files for an artist that I have a lot of different types of albums eg. Pearl Jam ;) is

Music > P > Pearl Jam > Studio Albums > (1991) - Ten

For music that I don't have as much of a collection of eg. Dave Matthews Band

Music > D > Dave Matthews Band > (1996) - Crash
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Anonymous

2016-07-06T10:24:25+00:00

Hi Ellen,

my name is Mathias Schmidt. I am a very basic user using digital music, so my needs should be very basic. But there is one point which annoys me every day.

I have some hundred music cds and still buy music by cd (yes I am somewhat conservative). I rip these cds into lossless wma format which automatically builds a folder structure like:

root

   interpreter1

      album1

         song1

         song2

         ...

      album2

         song1

         ...

   interpreter2

      album1

         ...

Either the Interpreter as the albums beneath the interpreter is automatically sorted by alphabet. Every cd I rip come along with a meta tag which includes the date of production of the album. I really miss the possibility to list of albums beneath the interpreter in a chronological order. Sounds stupid? But this is what I miss really, really, really really. Maybe you can help?

Thank you!

Mathias
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Anonymous

2016-07-06T10:07:35+00:00

Playing folder would be great help to us.

I miss play by other tags too.

Most show and play by "Album Interpret".

Play by Interpret is bad if you have many of them from Sampler...

But you can tag Album Interpret as "Various".

So, if we could show and play by tag Album Interpret, we have a great overview.
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