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iOS 7 Music App
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I wish I had known about this earlier, or I would not have upgraded. Music app is worthless to me, as I tend to have many albums by many artists (I have a 32GB iPhone 5, mostly filled with music). When I like a band, composer, or artist, I usually follow them and buy quite a few albums. 18 Rush albums, 8 Weather Report albums, huge assortment of John Adams music... How the hell am I going to find anything quickly? I'm looking forward to spending 3 minutes finding one track, even when I know exactly where it is!
But there's no escape... there is NO solution in the Music app, Apple has closed signing to downgrade to iOS6. Write to apple, then let's talk alternatives going forward.
There are other Music apps out there. A few even look and operate pretty closely to iOS6s apps. None of them are going to completely seamlessly integrate into iOS as the old Music app, but they come pretty close. Different apps retain different amounts of "iOSness". I think the best class are apps that are as close as they can be to the original Music app, but add functionality. There are several EQing and processing apps out there that try to become a seamless replacement and do a fairly good job. I downloaded and am using Audyssey, and it's pretty close. Many other apps were created as replacement interfaces for iOS6 Music. Thing is, I liked the iOS6 Music app! I don't want to turn my iPhone into a Zune, or make it look like a spaceship.
But, with all the iOS developers out there. You know there will soon be plenty of iOS6 Music app knockoffs out there, some of which will be very good.
So, for now, until Apple comes to their senses, that's what we need to do, and I'd love to hear what people are coming up with.
But there's no escape... there is NO solution in the Music app, Apple has closed signing to downgrade to iOS6. Write to apple, then let's talk alternatives going forward.
There are other Music apps out there. A few even look and operate pretty closely to iOS6s apps. None of them are going to completely seamlessly integrate into iOS as the old Music app, but they come pretty close. Different apps retain different amounts of "iOSness". I think the best class are apps that are as close as they can be to the original Music app, but add functionality. There are several EQing and processing apps out there that try to become a seamless replacement and do a fairly good job. I downloaded and am using Audyssey, and it's pretty close. Many other apps were created as replacement interfaces for iOS6 Music. Thing is, I liked the iOS6 Music app! I don't want to turn my iPhone into a Zune, or make it look like a spaceship.
But, with all the iOS developers out there. You know there will soon be plenty of iOS6 Music app knockoffs out there, some of which will be very good.
So, for now, until Apple comes to their senses, that's what we need to do, and I'd love to hear what people are coming up with.
You should file a bug. That's the only way this is going to get fixed. If the bug is closed, file it again. That's what I'm going to do.
What have apple done to the music app!
What have apple done! They have removed the ability to just play one album unless you are in album view. So if I look by artist for instance it shows you all the albums but you have to play them all. So I then have to look at the album name and go to albums to play it.
Also you can no longer add an album to a playlist you have to select each track individually. Blinking stupid.
What have apple done! They have removed the ability to just play one album unless you are in album view. So if I look by artist for instance it shows you all the albums but you have to play them all. So I then have to look at the album name and go to albums to play it.
Also you can no longer add an album to a playlist you have to select each track individually. Blinking stupid.
Not so, when viewing all albums for an artist you can scroll down to the album you want to play and start there; no reason to play all the albums. I do think however removing the ability to go straight to an album by selecting the album thumbnail is a retrograde step.
If there are albums after the one you want to listen to it'll play that though. Plus the shuffle options (even those on album headers!) work across all the artist's tracks.
From my experience with Google Play Music, I wish Apple had the ability to let you download the music to your phone as part of the service. Of course, you'd have to subscribe to iTunes Match for this as Apple's service is free unlike Google Play Music, but still it would be a cool feature.
I actually like the new music app quite a bit, but I got a huge problem and I hope someone can help me out: I am using iTunes Match, and since iOS 7 the music app started showing up my downloaded songs twice (see screenshot).
The funny thing is that is works initially, but after a couple of hours (at most a day) all my songs suddenly appear twice. The only way to solve this is to completely disable iTunes match on the device, which sometimes leads to the music being kept on the device but not being recognized anymore - which means I have to completely reinstall iOS, and I don't have time to do that every single day ^^
Fun fact: When I delete one of the double songs, it simply disappears from the music list.
Any ideas? Any help? This is literally rendering my music app useless, but I depent on both the music app and iTunes Match, unfortunately! I am especially confused by this because google doesn't turn up this problem, so it seems no one besides me is experiencing this.
PS: When this happens it is also accompanied by random strangeness, like "Download all songs of this artist (2 songs)" being shown when there is nothing to download and stuff like that.
The funny thing is that is works initially, but after a couple of hours (at most a day) all my songs suddenly appear twice. The only way to solve this is to completely disable iTunes match on the device, which sometimes leads to the music being kept on the device but not being recognized anymore - which means I have to completely reinstall iOS, and I don't have time to do that every single day ^^
Fun fact: When I delete one of the double songs, it simply disappears from the music list.
Any ideas? Any help? This is literally rendering my music app useless, but I depent on both the music app and iTunes Match, unfortunately! I am especially confused by this because google doesn't turn up this problem, so it seems no one besides me is experiencing this.
PS: When this happens it is also accompanied by random strangeness, like "Download all songs of this artist (2 songs)" being shown when there is nothing to download and stuff like that.
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I am in the exact same boat as you. This isn't a solution by any means but the album view will (somewhat) give you what you want by allowing you to pick an album by an artist. The problem is that it's sorted by name so all the albums are mixed in....you can have a rush album at the bottom, one in the middle and one at the end depending on the alphabetical order. Again, not a fix but it's something.
I hate this part of the ios. Honestly, it's the ONLY thing I hate about it. I don't understand why they went with this format. I already filed a bug. How do we check if it's been fixed?
My only complaint with the new music app is that Artists albums now continue playing to the next album when finished. I actually liked when the album was done and stopped playing. 99% of the time I search for music I'm using artist and not by album.
DO you have the link for submitting a bug? I did it once but can't find it. Also, how do you check if it's been fixed?
https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/
My bug is still in the open state. It probably hasn't been looked at.
Does it matter if you don't actually develop apps? I thought I submitted a bug report a couple of days ago but that was just in the suggestion area on things to fix.
Have you submitted one yet? If so, any response?
I had a random problem where the artist image that the music app displays isn't the actual artist. Is there a way to change it? Most, if not all of my music is ripped straight from CDs, not bought on iTunes.
What I've read in the Apple Forums the new music app pulls those automatically - but not always correctly. Right now, this seems to be a bug and there is no way to change it.
I hope they will show album cover in the future, the artist images are not really helping in finding the correct artist even if they are correct.
Ok, so I've now been playing with the music.app for about three days, and can safely say these are the downright stupid things that Apple have done with their Music App;
1) No ability to delete artist/album, only able to delete one song at a time
2) No ability to collapse the artist or album view - everything is listed
3) No ability to sort the albums per artist other than in chronological order
4) No Repeat Album in Artist view, this is only available when you list Albums
5) No continuation of music after a few hours when you pause a track. When you press play on headphones ALL music on the iPhone is played on shuffle regardless of what you listening to
6) No indication on the home page that you are playing music.
Huge leap backwards for what is essentially the core app of the phone, after all Apple released a perfect iPod, and then tacked on a sub par Phone when they first released the iPhone.
1) No ability to delete artist/album, only able to delete one song at a time
2) No ability to collapse the artist or album view - everything is listed
3) No ability to sort the albums per artist other than in chronological order
4) No Repeat Album in Artist view, this is only available when you list Albums
5) No continuation of music after a few hours when you pause a track. When you press play on headphones ALL music on the iPhone is played on shuffle regardless of what you listening to
6) No indication on the home page that you are playing music.
Huge leap backwards for what is essentially the core app of the phone, after all Apple released a perfect iPod, and then tacked on a sub par Phone when they first released the iPhone.
8. Artwork in artist view can be wrong / not using artwork attached to files.
9. Bug/glitch when adding music to iPhone, then changing the ID3 tags and adding the music back the iPhone doesn't update/take the changes, even if you delete the music from the phone prior.
How did you solve this because I have duplicate albums in my iTunes Match library that I can't remove even when I turn iTunes Match off and on. It's very frustrating and I hate the feature where it plays the next album without my permission.
Unfortunately, I did not solve this at all. It just persists. Are the duplicate albums disappearing when you turn off "Show All Music" ? Because if they are not I think this might be a separate issue, I suppose maybe a re-install of iOS might help you (just a guess).