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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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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
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.
First of all, Ellen, you are really shining amongst those who are leading a Team which develops applications for W10(M) within Microsoft.
Groove has come an amazing way since the first iterations, if I would be your Boss I would feel extremely proud of you.
Regarding folders, some thoughts:
One Folder per Artist, and then a Folder per album. The Software MP3 Tag helps to organize it this way.
With samplers, I still try to put the single songs into folders which are named according to the original album, and this folder again into the Artist's folder.
It doesn't work always like this, and I have an Artist folder wich is named "Various Artists"....
I can't wait to see what backwards, user hostile disaster MS uses this "Feedback Request" to justify this time around.
Sorry to be that guy, but I don't want this, I'd much prefer a flawless tag/album art recognition with editing possibilities. Thank you!
