Thank you for that magnificent summary of all that made Rimmer’s alter ego ace 
No smeg there 
No don’t think so. I mean the ability to select multiple albums based on their common higher level folder. Let say if I import multiple albums, all in parent folder “from friend”, that I could tag them together as albums from friend.
Why do you have to tag them ? You can just move them to another folder - let’s say it’s called “From dear friend” . That is the advantage of folders browsing - you can create any folder you like under the parent folder .
Tags are a very different thing and they have very different uses. Although you could use tags to setup a folder-like browsing experience (yes it would be a lot of work), you cannot use folder view to do anything close to what tags can do.
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Tagging is very useful, as I can use it to filter out albums I’m currently interested in. While a parent folder as such is completely useless. There is no way in Roon to filter and show only the albums let say from my friend.
I used to create extra storage folder for any such group of albums I wanted to selectively filter. But problem is that Roon gets really slow once you add 6-7 such storage folders on the same disk.
Folder view recently came to my rescue - I had an album with missing tracks and, on checking the folder, I found the tracks were indeed there. I was able to select all the tracks in the folder view and use the Edit > Group Tracks function to create a new album which replaced the old (incomplete) one. Nice unexpected benefit.
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Hi Roon,
I was one of the guys who asked for folder browsing a while back and got hammered about that question.
I didn’t want to react immediately but I am very happy this feature is there and it gave me a new view on the files I have on my NAS.
Not sure if this is due to the new owner Harman, but if it is I am very happy. Initially I was very worried by the acquisition of Roon by Harman. Harman is Samsung, and I really don’t like Samsung. But hey if it brings this, maybe I should rethink my opinion about them.
Take care and thanks for a way over due fantastic feature.
Cheers,
Peter
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