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

My collection is mostly classical and organized by folders for composers, and folders for albums within each composer folder. The ability to navigate by folders would be very useful. So would the ability to navigate by composer.

Many classical albums contain multiple discs. Groove currently sorts the tracks within such albums by track number instead of disc, then tracks within each disc. This scrambles all the track 1s together, then all the track 2s, etc. Most players do a better job of this. It would also help to have a setting that allows one to display the composer field in place of the artist field for classical music buffs (and there are lots of us).

It would also be ideal to have Groove capable of storing album art in AAC and ALAC files, and any other format capable of this. I have wanted for years to escape iTunes, which does most of the above.

Whatever you do folders for playlists please! I make a lot of playlists and having one long list of them can be annoying to have to sort so please folders for playlists that we can drag around and organize how we want (See Spotify).

Also any chance of getting family pricing (i.e. Spotify, Google play music, Apple music, etc.)?

Files and folders are a necessary evil for working on metadata, but that's all. I certainly don't use them to browse my music collection. I use Windows Explorer to browse folders.

How do you find a specific song more efficiently that way? When I'm listening to music, I think of specific songs I'd like to hear and add them to the current playlist. Not sure how tags help with this usage.

If you think of a specific song, then use Groove's search function to bring it up, and add it to the "Now playing" list?

I would agree that Groove is currently very limited in what it can do, but I don't think the answer is to add a "browse folders and files" function. A "Focus/Filter" function is, IMO, a better approach.

I guess I find it quicker to click 3 or 4 times to open the folder and add the song. Search just doesn't make sense to me if I know where something is, and I know what I have and where it is.

Files and folders are a necessary evil for working on metadata, but that's all. I certainly don't use them to browse my music collection. I use Windows Explorer to browse folders.

How do you find a specific song more efficiently that way? When I'm listening to music, I think of specific songs I'd like to hear and add them to the current playlist. Not sure how tags help with this usage.

If you think of a specific song, then use Groove's search function to bring it up, and add it to the "Now playing" list?

I would agree that Groove is currently very limited in what it can do, but I don't think the answer is to add a "browse folders and files" function. A "Focus/Filter" function is, IMO, a better approach.

I've been reading some other posts on here. Tags would be great, that way you can mix in Groove Music Pass songs as well as what is on my computer. But what you would need to be able to do is select multiple to filter on.

At current, at least on my phone, you can only select one genre at a time. But what if I want to listen to Game music and classical at the same time? So maybe the folder thing is more about introducing a greater ability to filter your music on certain things. But they can't just be the normal Artist or Genre tags either, have to have the ability to add custom tags to it.

After talking to a few Twitter users as well, the other thing that came up was that what would be really handy would be a way to limit the sources of the music by toggling the sources of the music on and off. So I can open up a list of my known folder structure, un-tick the the Christmas sub folder and then when I hit shuffle music, it no longer will play Jingle Bells in the middle of August...

And I would love Groove for ever if you could add in rules to the tags or sources filters that will automatically add or remove the music from the collection. So if I take that Christmas tag or folder and set a rule that says it's only in the music collection during December!

And on a side note about filtering sources, it would be great if my phone had an option to automatically shuffle in music from the cloud sources when connected to a non-metered internet connection and then when I go back to 4g, it blocks all those songs and just gives me the local content only.