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
    2016-08-02T16:15:20+00:00

    What is a "folder"?  I do not see that word anywhere on the Groove Music interface on my PC.  How do you create a folder?   I do not have music (or anything else) "in the cloud."  I have a prepaid phone and do not access the internet or anything else non-phone when I am away from my home wi-fi.  I generally look for albums on a music player and then build playlists from them, such as 'dinner music,' 'favorite dance numbers,' 'dance practice 2,' 'language lesson16,' etc.  I purchased a Windows 10 smart phone because I broke my camera and want to get away from my 2019 iPod Touch2, since Apple products never made sense to me. (MS seems to be drifting there.)

    The playlists that I built in iTunes showed up in Groove Music on my PC, but have not moved to the phone.  (I link them with a cable.)

    Perhaps there is a better app for me to use to listen to my playlists.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-17T10:34:26+00:00

    This is the fundamental problem with Groove. You can do all this (and much more) in MediaMonkey and many other programs right now. The issue is that Groove subscription tracks do not play in or show up in other programs. There is no re-tagging of DRM tracks. You can't re-tag a Kelly Clarkson rock Christmas album as only "Christmas" so it does not play in your auto-generated "Rock" playlist.

    The basic issue in all of this is tags. Some programs adjust your carefully constructed tags automatically---destroying your system. Some mis-tag. Some don't handle compilation albums (various artists---etc), some can't handle multiple disc albums. If tags were full-featured and consistent, virtual folders would be great.

    I believe many users resorted to physical folders because they gave up on elaborate tagging as a solution to organization.

    Whatever MS comes up with, they absolutely cannot abandon tagging. That is the gold standard of organization.

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