Windows 10: Music folder 'arrange by' function

Hello,

There is a great feature in win7 explorer that you can arrange your music in the music folder by a few options such as albums, genre and artist.
There is a way to get it again in win10 explorer?


Example:




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How can I find files on my Micro SD card?

Windows Media Player, Zune and Windows Phone 7 all depend on tags to arrange and sort music. There has been no removal of function.

If you have all of that music in one folder a basic mp3 tagger can changs all the 'album' tags to 80s Music and all will be displayed as one album.

 

Windows 520 nokia lumia,managing Mucic folders.

If you took a folder of music and dropped it in your music library for Windows Media Player on Windows 8.1 you would not get a folder of music to play using WMP. You would get new songs added and you would see them arranged in the player based on the metadata
tags embeded in each song, the artist album and song title. Windows music arrangement is based on metadata. The same thing applies to music added to the phone.

 

Libraries are still in Win10. You might have to right click the navigation pane of File Explorer and select Show Libraries. Then you have to put the folders with the music in the Music Library - nothing has really changed.

edit: a little bit has changed - there's a manage library tab on explorer that open a manage library on the ribbon - that's how you configure libraries - you used to do that on the properties page.

Tip: In File Explorer, right click on the folder you want to include in a Library, select Include in Library > and then pick which library from the expanded list.

 

Still, I can't see the arrange by option.

 

I don't think this has changed since Libraries were introduced, but ... try this

Navigate to the Music Library, right click an open area




This only works in Libraries - you're screen shot in post 1 shows the Music Library - just wanted to make sure that you're not trying to arrange objects in a normal folder

Post a screen shot showing what you see when you right click the open area of the Library if that doesn't help
Grab the entire screen (PrtScrn key) so the context menu is included (it's tricky to get those sometimes *Wink)

Sometimes it's a just matter of fiddling with the Arrange by and View. You could also try right clicking Libraries in the navigation pane and select Restore default libraries, but then you'll have to add the folders you want presented back into the library.

 

OK, I think I got it.
Thanks.

 

Glad you got it sorted.