# Feature suggestions after matching a huge & messed up folder
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Created:** [September 2, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286 "2024-09-02T16:50:44Z")
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### Author:  [@zniarbatem](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/zniarbatem)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/1 "2024-09-02T16:50:44Z")
**Background**
Many years ago I tried to clean up my music collection which I completely botched up, mainly basically because I was just winging it without understanding what I was doing. This resulted in a big folder almost without any complete folder/release which was so bad that I gave up and switched to listening to streaming music. In recent weeks I decided to spent some time to get my old music collection in a somewhat decent order again.
Although Picard has been very useful to help with this, there are also some big disadvantages that hindered my workflow and made it much more difficult unfortunately. As a result of my experience with using Picard to import this botched up collection, I have composed a list of issues and feature requests that might’ve helped me to organize this messed up music collection easier and/or quicker.
I apologize if some of these suggestions have been suggested before, I didn’t looked up each of them. Also let me know if you prefer I submit this list differently, I didn’t want to spam you here by adding 14 separate feature requests so maybe we can use this topic at least to create a shortlist of potential feasible FR’s 🙂
**Feature suggestions**
1. Add option to horizontically split (un)clustered view into two separate views (i.e. a top view for unclustered and a bottom view for clustered files)
2. Option to move release/track back to unclustered/clustered file lists without dragging
3. Clustering should take artists better into account
4. Show file type / bitrates (if applicable) as columns
5. Create new, expand, submit releases from right view
6. Filter / sort by ‘completeness’ of release and/or filter / sort release by absolute / relative track count
7. Make it visually easy to understand what the status of a matched release is
8. When adding new releases maintain double sort
9. Add text field to search / filter (un)clustered files (file name and/or tags)
10. Option to expand track list in album search results
11. Option to hide cover image in search results (but show the cover image in the metadata view)
12. Don’t force the height of the metadata view
13. Option to remove files from disk
14. When you add a new release or change a match from release A to release B, automatically scroll to the new matched release in the right view
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### Author:  [@Sophist](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Sophist)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/2 "2024-09-02T17:43:35Z")
@zas ? @outsidecontext ?
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### Author:  [@Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Zas)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/3 "2024-09-02T17:59:39Z")
Those are mostly good suggestions. But it would be much more practical for us to have those as individual tickets.
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### Author:  [@zniarbatem](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/zniarbatem)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/4 "2024-09-02T19:40:12Z")
Where would you like me to create those? Here or should I add them on [https://tickets.metabrainz.org](https://tickets.metabrainz.org)?
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### Author:  [@Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Zas)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/5 "2024-09-02T21:30:44Z")
Please add them to [https://tickets.metabrainz.org/](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/) under Picard project.
We can discuss details there for each suggestion, and if we decide to implement we can link related code.
Not all suggestions you made are actionable, some might need sub-tasks, or may be related to existing tickets, and of course, some will be dropped for various reasons (after discussion ofc).
Please do a quick search among existing tickets to see if any fits before adding a new one.
Also feel free to attach mockup images.
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### Author:  [@zniarbatem](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/zniarbatem)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/6 "2024-09-03T12:35:57Z")
All understandable, just finished adding the tickets. I also understand some issues could potentially be implemented as a plugin instead, but I don’t think that can be done for the two main issues (splitting the view to prevent the need for endless scrolling and improving the merge status ux).
When the tickets are a bit more finalized I might also be able to help you with implementing some of the (lesser involved) tickets 🙂
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### Author:  [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feature-suggestions-after-matching-a-huge-messed-up-folder/712286/7 "2024-09-03T17:35:17Z")
Thanks for the suggestions and adding the tickets. I went over them and added a few comments. Some of the smaller ideas we already had tickets for.
If I haven’t commented on a ticket it doesn’t mean anything other than I think the idea is generally fine and could be done as soon as someone gets to it 🙂