Hey guys,
I was wondering if there is an option to play music by folder. I just want to be able to select one or multiple folders, and add them to the playing queue. Where can I do this? I haven’t found the option yet.
It would seem ridiculous to me that this basic function isn’t there, so I guess I just haven’t found it yet?
Thanks already!
“It would seem ridiculous to me that this basic function isn’t there…”
I think you are right, there is no such option, and this is ridiculous. Reason enough to change the system. I think everybody with a huge, over time grown, music library has his music sorted in folders and needs this feature desperatley. In my opinion that would be the very first option to be implemented in a system that plays music.
A year has passed and still it’s impossible to play a folder or to add a folder to the queue. This is basic functionality!
we need this a soon as possible is just a basic functionality that should be in the first place, please added!!!
Yes, the ability to play by folder is critical. If anybody knows of another product that will allow me to organize music by folder and stream it from my linux server to my Sonos system, I’d be willing to pay for that. I have no idea why the plex developers wouldn’t include this functionality. Tags are cute and shiny but organizing things by folder seems so much more natural, intuitive, and flexible to me.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. This probably isn’t the correct place for me to have posted my gripe. What I really want is for the Sonos client on my Android phone to be able to view and play my music by folder. Currently my music is in a Plex library on a linux laptop. It’s possible that the plex server has that ability but the Android Sonos client hasn’t implemented the functionality yet.
Hi, I have the same problem. I do have a lot of music that is not in any databases. So I have organised it in folders, but there is no simple way to play a complete folder.
There used to be, on iOS anyway, a way to Play All, when in Folder View, but they removed it for some unknown reason.
Add me to the list of people that would like to play music that is organized by folder. I do not want to create a library for each folder. I would prefer to play a folder when I want and there is no easy way for me to create a playlist without a lot of work.
Is this in Plex Web? If you play the first track in a folder does it not advance to the next as you would expect?
That’s not how it works. You create a single music library, and then add all your music folders to that one Library. Just so you know
I primarily use Plex Player, which allows me to browse folders and play files contained within a single folder. The same is true for the iOS player. That is fine, but I want to play files contained in multiple sub-folders of a folder, similar to what OP is looking for.
Your idea of how it works may be fine for small music libraries, but I have thousands of CDs that I have ripped. My albums are curated (well before using Plex) with multiple folders and subfolders with the groupings I desire, not necessarily related to any tag. When I rip new CDs, I place them in desired folders.
My main folders define my various Plex libraries, but my main folders has numerous sub-folders containing album sub-folders. It would be cumbersome to create dozens of libraries for the numerous sub-folders I have, particularly when I would use them only infrequently. Basically, I want to play a subset of a library.
Apparently my only recourse is to use a music player that allows me to randomly play within a folder containing sub-folders.
I’m in the same boat - a view / play by folder option would be great.
I’ve just noticed, the PS4 Plex player actually does have a ‘Play’ icon at every level when browsing by folder.
When I play the first track in a folder, the web player doesn’t advance automatically. In fact, the ‘next track’ button is greyed out - probably because it’s looking for the next track in the album, and there isn’t one - the folder is full of single tracks from many albums.
