group library by file path

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From keirangtp on December 19, 2010 15:31:38

This is already done in foobar for example. I find it an important feature because many users just don't care about tagging their songs and this grouping is the only kind really usable by them. Of course, there is the Files tab, but it's not the same (you see just on disk subtree at a time, there's no filtering etc.).

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=1143

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From keirangtp on December 21, 2010 00:20:11

Summary: group library by file path

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From keirangtp on December 21, 2010 00:20:28

Issue 598 has been merged into this issue.

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From keirangtp on December 21, 2010 00:20:44

Issue 334 has been merged into this issue.

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From Andree.ekroth on December 27, 2010 09:24:24

Another reason why this would a lot better than the Files tab is the speed, it would be a lot faster to use the database then to have Clementine searching the folder (and possible subfolders) for every song. This of course depends on the HDD.

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From wischhusenh on January 02, 2011 06:26:34

This would really be a great feature.

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From keirangtp on January 14, 2011 05:35:20

Issue 1285 has been merged into this issue.

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From davidsansome on January 20, 2011 08:22:01

Issue 1333 has been merged into this issue.

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_From kasatkin_serge@mail.ru on February 08, 2011 08:58:42_

Me joining to this request. Mostly songs are organized to folders and tree view is very useful. This is my preferred mode in foobar2000.

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From davidsansome on June 17, 2011 13:58:53

Issue 1871 has been merged into this issue.

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From davidsansome on September 15, 2011 16:27:37

Issue 2234 has been merged into this issue.

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From viktorvos on September 16, 2011 04:48:25

Vote from me too.

Would it be hard to implement this feature ?

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From viktorvos on December 10, 2011 14:04:22

Any news on this issue ?

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From Silinskas.Andrius on January 03, 2012 13:23:54

I vote for this too. It's the only reason I'm not using this player now.

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From arjanmossel on November 06, 2012 07:46:47

This would be great, also if you do have tagged collections. For example, I encounter duplicate albums in my collection (e.g. different album releases with/without bonus tracks, etc., or folders with different audio formats). In Library view these get grouped as one album, so I get the same songs in my playlist multiple times. An extra 'folder' level for grouping would solve this.

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From sinav.ahmet on December 27, 2012 04:00:48

pls add this feature for google drive too. tnks.

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From quidible on April 21, 2013 00:01:07

Coming from foobar2000, this is one feature I dearly miss.

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From christian.mathiassen on April 21, 2013 00:19:05

Gets my vote too. A feature I miss a lot!

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From arnaud.bienner on April 21, 2013 10:17:30

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[flan]

I just launched Clementine again on a fresh system install and quickly recalled that this issue is why I typically go through the process of setting up other media players.

I really like the layout and thought that's gone into Clementine, but I have lots of multi-disc soundtracks, typically broken into a "./Disc 1"-like directory structure, and these all get flattened with the existing library grouping options, so tracks from all discs end up side-by-side when adding an album to a playlist.

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I am also waiting for this feature, 7 years after the original issue was opened. I have a collection carefully organized into folders but without proper mp3 tags, so my Clementine library is littered with "albums" that have a single song or "artist" categories that have a single song...it's impossible to recover the structure I imposed within the library system as it exists.

[nvtkaszpir]

The only workaround for now is to use Files tab, where you can browse files and add them to playlist. Yet it may be a bit cumbersome on some linux distros when using network mounts, then usually you need to browse path like:

/run/user/<used-id>/gvfs/

where user-id is a mount for given user, I sugges to open that location in current file browser, enter the share and copy/paste the path to Clementine.

Or adjust your autofs configs to auto mount it under specific path.

[WohthaN]

Well, I guss this is a good time to point out once again that this feature would be really apreciated! Dealing with huge, not properly tagged collections only through the files tab is a pain, for all the reasons already mentioned before.

[lemn8]

Also vote from me to! Just like the "ultrasonic" app on android has this feature. Works like a charm. (with latest update you need to disable "browse using ID3 tags" then you see folder structure again. Without it for me and my library structure clementine is practically useless. So still waiting!