Hell freezes over, or how Folder Browsing came to Roon!

I too have no use for folder browsing, but am very happy for those who want/need it. However it should be noted that my folders are in immaculate condition. My autistic traits can be viewed by an examination of said folders.

Every single folder is organised and labelled in exactly the same way. :laughing:

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Another Team Member from Autistic Side of the Life

Managed by numbers (double digit, 10 was too short for me)

Each artist folder with year of the record and then name of.

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Or, give the option to build third-party remotes by finally fleshing out (and documenting) the server API. Let a thousand flowers bloom!

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I had a ‘Folders and File’ view in Asset UPnP server, which I still have scan my Music library on the NAS. I never used that feature, so not sure I will use this.
I just make sure that the metadata on anything newly imported is correct and use, as much as possible, an Artist/Album hierarchy within the watched/scanned folders.

Anyway, a good release that comes back to the Roon user building and maintaining local library of music over just relying on streaming services.

Now what else would be good to see

  1. Any of these
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  2. UPnP support :smiley:

I’ve read your posts, so can see why you’re disgruntled, but I can’t think of any other software where new options include the option to disable them (Photoshop, Microsoft Office programmes, browsers, etc).

I’m struggling to see why Roon is different to all the rest of the software I use. It has features: I can either use them or not.

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I feel that @AMT probably doesn’t care about the feature being enabled but the ability to customize the UI to show or hide options. And Photoshop, Office, and browsers all have the ability to add and remove buttons from the UI (many browsers extremely so via extensions). Roon itself lets us show or hide the new Playlists button in the side bar. [Edit: Well, the actual playlists, not the button]

It’s not a huge issue to me, but I’d be slightly happier if I could turn off the buttons (and have folders accessible only by a more hidden way)

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Fair enough. I seem to remember voting for the ability to rearrange the various elements and content on Roon’s home page at some point, which I still think would be a good idea, so point taken.

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Can you do a voice / audio version of this post @Jamie? I’ll happily stick it a folder Jamie’s fairytales! Happy ending and all.

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Is it possible to backup the library from the folders, if not could that be added please

Plus it would be great if the current letter to be displayed
when scrolling the folders list, as it when scrolling through albums and artists :innocent:

P.S. I didn’t need the Folders option but i like it :star_struck:

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It’s quite funny this is available because it’s oh-so-retro like Slimserver!
Maybe there’s hope for adding my own reviews and bios!

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I can’t believe this has actually happened! Bravo!

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Can there be an option to turn this unwanted (for me and many others) feature off? It seems a big thing for just a small minority of Roon users.

CD rips are automatically filed in artist folders by dbpoweramp so folders just replicates Artist on Roon. Pointless.

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I’m sure we’ll get a sidebar customisation at some point, for those that are complaining about the new link in the sidebar. :roll_eyes:

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Maybe I should request that all the functions I personally don’t use in Microsoft Office applications are removed, as I feel overwhelmed … :wink:

(Someone would likely point out that the interface is customizable and that will be the end of it)

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I’m 110% with you on this one.
However it’s great for those who wanted, nay, DEMANDED it…lol.
Enjoy Roonies

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I never notyiced this feature (letter showing up on the side) as I do not tend to scroll using the scroll bar, but now I will as this is quite handy on large lists

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I have difficulty to understand what is really bothering some users having an extra ‘Folders’ line in the My Library menu.
There’s plenty of space, and nobody is forcing you to click on it.

I am sure I will not be using Folder view alot, but both for Classical music and boxsets, Folders view cna be a terrific help finding back an album.
Especially for Classical music, a lot of albums have Works from different composers, and although identified by Roon, are not that easy to find back.
E.g. looking at the Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky


I have no clue why Antonin Dvorak 9th sympjhony is showing up, except that this album is part of a boxset which contains albums of Tchaikovsky:

(Why Roon does not displays the Tchakovsky album(s) of this box, making part of my library is still a big mistery to me).
Folder view can lead me to this boxset very easily, and locate Tchaikovsksky’s album in a second or 2)

Another boxset example


Only 1 album of the boxset is presented by Roon. Always a hassle if I need to locate back the other albums.

Now with Folders, I can easily access every local album (because I edit the metadat of each album added to My Library).
When Roon does it job (95% of the time) , I do not need Folders view. But when Roon does not, Folders view rewards me for all the work I am doing curating the metadata of all my local albums, including the new ones I am adding in the future.

So a big thanks to Roon to offer this functionality.

Dirk

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the date added column is confusing it seemd related to when the file was first created, not the modification date as in file browsers, nor when the album was added :wink:

fully agree with you @Dirk_De_Taey I was missing the folder brosing feature last week and had a tedious time fixing some metedata in a boxset

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