Can you calmly and rationally explain what your issue is?
I just updated to 8.2 and, under an individual artist, Music appears to group songs into albums, with the albums sorted by their release date (most recent first). Songs under each album are sorted by track. That seems reasonable to me. Can you explain how you'd prefer it to be ordered?
Well, the "Artist" sorting silliness was what makes the current issue important to me. I'm syncing with iTunes right now, and it's taking longer than usual, so I hope it's sorting it out. But what happened is that I use the album field's "sort as" field for all of my albums, putting [Artist Name][Release Year] as the sorting criteria, making my one big giant list of albums ordered the way I want (it also orders the album cover view that way). Immediately after updating to 8.2, my albums were no longer in the correct order.
Now, as to what's wrong with the "Artist" section that the music app currently uses, well, it's asinine. Yes, you select an artist, then it sorts the albums by most recent first, but it also just lists all the songs, so if you have 20 albums by one artist, the last 10 of which are 25 track live albums, it can take a while to scroll all the way down to their genre defining debut album.
That by itself is highly irritating, but that's not the worst part.
What makes it completely unusable for my listening style is this: it will play the rest of the list of tracks IN ITS ENTIRETY from wherever I play the first song. I like it when my selected album ends when I'm done listening. I have playlists that I use for shuffling songs and doing "best of" collections; for albums, I want to play the album and that's it.
It has the easiest solution in the world: look at their "Artist" section from iOS 6's music app. You select an artist, you see a list of their albums (with artwork, that's cool, I like artwork) and then you select the album.
To some this might seem like serious nitpicking, but consider this: my first Apple product was the original iPod Nano. It sorted albums this way. So did the subsequent iPods and iOS devices up until iOS 7. Back in the day, the selection of MP3 players (and even software - and I include the Xbox's still horrible media player) was a mishmash of varying bad experiences. Everybody either did it the way Apple now does it or, for whatever reason, simply repeated your selection until you told it to stop.
I want them to act like CD's and records did before them. Play multiple if I explicitly set it up that way, otherwise stop assuming you know what I want to listen to next.
Yeah, you can tell this has been a pet peeve of mine for a while.
Update
Syncing with iTunes fixed my main issue, but for some reason my artist list is now out of order (i.e. "A.C. Newman" is now at the top, whereas the "sort as" field should put him in the N's - but since I don't use artist mode, it's not a big deal to me, it'll probably piss off someone else).
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Is this sarcasm? I've thought the music app improved from 6, to 7 and then on 8 it was very good. Am I in the 1% group of people who actually like it?
It all depends on how you use the app. I still like it in a lot of ways, but the inexplicable change to the way Artist lists are handled (see above) just flabbers my gaster to no end.
