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
    2016-07-06T07:38:09+00:00

    I recommend MediaMonkey for editing tags.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T06:52:46+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T06:52:19+00:00

    Are you listening? Really? Android and iOS haven't had an update in almost a year, should I just give up and pay for a different service or are you going to update?

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T06:31:27+00:00

    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....

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T06:19:51+00:00

    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.

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