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
    2016-07-06T22:16:08+00:00

    I appreciate that you are listening, but folders are an archaic way to build your music navigation. That's what tags are for. Let the tags drive the way the music is presented, sorted and filtered. You should put more effort into utilizing tags more effectively.

    I have all my music organized nicely into folders Artist/Album/Songs, but it shouldn't even matter. All the tag data is embedded in each file. 

    I'd rather you put your efforts into establishing a family plan for Groove. Seriously, do you think folders are keeping people from using Groove? I doubt it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T22:26:34+00:00

    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!

    I agree. Adding this feature seems like a 2006 idea with devices that don't properly read or navigate tags. I'm going to go more extreme and say any time spent on this is time wasted.

    How about a Family Plan for Groove Music instead? Seems easier and more value added.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-06T23:30:46+00:00

    I think the key word is that it shouldn't be fixed with a single format that should be use, I think the nice thing would be to be able to add stuff in a tree folder way,

    One way that I would like to be able to use is

    Good music\Slow music\song

    Good music\techno favorites\song

    Good music\techno favorites\blues ones\song

    Good music\Ariana\song

    So that I could play all the songs in the Good music if I want or just play a single subfolder if I just want one, and not have to add it to different playlist that I need to keep nice, but only one place..

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-07-07T07:13:45+00:00

    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.

    It seems to me that there are plenty of other things missing in Groove that should be fixed first.

    For example, "Cast to" networked audio devices via DLNA. It's been over a year since a Microsoft spokesperson said:

    Eventually the new music app should have support for casting to such devices, the video preview app should already have this support enabled.

    ...and we are still waiting.

    It's a sad sign of the times that the venerable Windows Media Player still has more functionality and capability than Groove.

    Personally, I've given up on Groove. I use Roon. It's not free, in fact it's probably expensive in most people's eyes, but it does a far better job than Groove is ever likely to do of handling my music collection (supporting, amongst other things, albums, artists, composers, genres, year released, works and performances) and streaming to multi-room audiophile-level systems.

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