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

Anonymous
2016-07-05T23:31:37+00:00

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!

Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T05:50:59+00:00

    Music\Artist\Album

    How I use it.

    Select an album and play it in track order.

    Add an album to a playlist. Not always the current playlist. Also Add an album to a new playlist.

    Select several songs using Ctrl-click and add them to a playlist. Or create a new playlist from them.

    Browse the list and add a single song to any playlist.

    Rearrange songs in a playlist. Including the current playlist.

    All actions are drag and drop or context menus.

    Note that none of these actions interupt the music that is playing.

    I also use the keyboard a lot to navigate the folder tree and add songs to the current playlist.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T05:15:46+00:00

    To start with, we put our music into folders depending on who's it is. So mine goes into a folder with my name, my wife's goes into a folder for her and then we have a folder for the music we share.

    My folder structure changes depending on the type of music...

    TV shows or Games go in a folder structure like:

    Genre[Series]Album

    for general music follows a more normal folder srtucture:

    Music\Artist\Album

    Being able to select music at a certain folder location and be able to play it all or shuffle it, or even add it to a playlist would make things easier. Selecting multiple folders at a given level would also be great so that I can select my own folder and the shared one and say play all! then when my wife comes home, I just switch it to the shared folder only so she doesn't have to listen to my stuff that she doesn't like.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T02:58:41+00:00

    My music is stored on OneDrive as:

    Genre > Artist > Year - Album > (songs on album)

    I've used this layout for years, even wrote a desktop app to traverse this folder structure to play the album/song I'm wanting to hear.  I prepend the year to the album folder for sorting purposes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T02:29:04+00:00

    Music on my PC is organized by artist first then album.

    Play buttons on each artist folder would be great to play random tracks by the same artist without having to stop and switch between albums.  I passively listen to music on my PC at home and anything that would make selecting the music I want to hear effortless would be great.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T02:24:27+00:00

    Hey. Navigate by folder, when in addition to navigate by tag, helps fix tagging errors. Eg right now I have some compilations, like the Prince of Egypt soundtrack, that simply refuse to show up in the same album. But if you let me "jump to folder", boom there they all would be.

    Pair that with ID3 editing and I  could  fix the tags.

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