Browsing folder structure?

[FCrane]

Hi!

I have a collection of about 32000 mp3s in a carefully designed folder structure and I simply want to browse this folder tree. When selecting a folder, the contents should be offered for playing (single file, selection, all, etc.) Searching for filename parts should also be possible. The root of the folder structure must be configurable, of course (it's on a network drive). All that should be possible to be remote controlled with an Android app, too.

I can't figure out how to do this with the program! Is this most basic and simple task really impossible??? Hard to believe! I do not want endlessly long lists of albums, artists, files, etc., I don't want tracks to be sorted and categorized by tags, etc. - just want to browse my own carefully structured folder tree, It's the simplest and most basic thing!

Please advise how this can be done.

Thanks!

[Nyalnara]

So, basically, you want to browse you music just as it is stored on the filesystem.

Well, you can use the "Files" view and it does just that: you can browse your files as if using you file system, wherever those are. Having a network drive exposed in there will be OS dependent, see your OS doc for mapping a network drive to a specific folder (see fstab for linux (and probably macOS too), not sure how to do that under Windows except for using symlinks).

Alternative would be to use your actual file manager, and using your context menu to play files in Clementine.