If you prefer keyboard over mouse like I do, you'll probably want a keyboard way of selecting music to be played.

We can use dmenu to go through our Music collection and make a auto-complete suggestion list to select Music from.

Default selection view. Start typing letters to filter the collection.

We'll need to have some packages installed:

sudo apt-get install dmenu clementine xbindkeys

Save the following script (I named it clementine_play_folder.sh ) and chmod +x it:

#!/bin/bash flag = $1 function handleSelection { if [[ $1 ]] ; then folder = $1 if [ $flag == 'append' ] ; then msg = "Appended songs" else msg = "Loaded songs" fi notify-send -i clementine " $msg " " $folder " if [ $flag == 'load' ] ; then clementine --stop; fi clementine -- $flag "/home/ $( whoami ) /Music/ $folder " if [ $flag == 'load' ] ; then clementine --play; fi fi exit 0 } # If clementine's not running, start it! if ! pgrep -x clementine >/dev/null; then clementine & fi handleSelection " $( cd /home/ $( whoami ) /Music; ls -d * / * | dmenu_custom ) " exit 0

Be sure to replace and or edit the Music path at the bottom of the script if you don't have a standard Music folder structure. Otherwise, it should work out of the box. The usage is quite simple, pass either append - to append the folder to the current playlist or load (which is default) - to replace the current playlist - option:

clementine_play_folder.sh load

or

clementine_play_folder.sh append

To set a global keyboard shortcut, I used xbindkeys . Relevant part of my .xbindkeysrc :

"~/scripts/clementine_play_folder.sh load" Mod4 + m "~/scripts/clementine_play_folder.sh append" Mod4 + Shift + m

That's all folks, enjoy :)