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Apple Music Features Improved Spotify-Like Queue System on iOS 18
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Somehow, I’ve never paid attention to any queuing system, old or new. I just find the album I wanna listen to and press play.
Small wins I see. Hopefully they'll tackle the nonsensical way of getting to one's libraries next. Navigation in this app is a nightmare. They could also take a look at songs suggestion now that they've added ChatGPT. It's crazy that Spotify do a better job whilst offering a free tier.
Apple has revamped the song queuing system in the Music app on iOS 18, and early reaction to the changes has been overwhelmingly positive.
Notable changes include a new "Add Songs to Queue" button at the bottom of the queue, an option to clear the entire queue all at once, and the ability to change the currently playing song without having the queue disappear. In addition, the former "Play Last" menu option has been replaced with "Add to Queue." While listening to a playlist, it is now possible to add a song to the queue for immediate playback after the current song, whereas the song would previously get added to the end of the playlist.
These changes bring Apple Music's queuing system on iPhone more in line with Spotify, and the Android version of the Apple Music app. It also brings Apple Music's queuing system more in line with how it worked back on iOS 9.
iOS 18 is currently available in beta for members of the Apple Developer Program, with a public beta to follow in July. The update should be widely released in September, allowing everyone to try out the new queuing system.
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I am on the beta and I do not have the “queue”, I still have the “continue playing” and “Play next”. How do I make it show up?
what about random plays of songs by artist regardless of album! Never understood why they took that feature away
This is great.
Things I still want:
Things I still want:
- My followed artists to appear to the left (like on Spotify) with ability to categorize them into folders (unlike Spotify)
- From an artist page, easily be able to click and see all the loved/liked songs from them (like on Spotify) and be able to play/shuffle those songs as if they were a playlist (like on Spotify)
- Be able to filter the left sidebar for either playlists or artists (like on Spotify)
- Better organization of playlists into folders/subfolders/etc (like on Spotify)
- Easier to get updates on when an artists I follow releases a new album
An EQ that can also work with AIRPLAY and not only AirPods.
Yeah and also HomePod, I have the 1st gen, they sound amazing but being able to tweak would be awesome.
This fixes such a huge papercut - namely the ability to spend 20 minute queuing up songs and then accidentally blow it away with one mis-tap.
Now there are three sections - the top section is the song that's actually being played, then you see Queue, with the ability to add to front or back of queue, but then after the queue you see the rest of the original playlist. So if you started an album with songs A1, A2, A3... , then queued up two songs Q1, Q2, you'd see this:
A1
---
Queue:
Q1
Q2
Add to queue
---
Continue Playing album whatever:
A2
A3
...
Now there are three sections - the top section is the song that's actually being played, then you see Queue, with the ability to add to front or back of queue, but then after the queue you see the rest of the original playlist. So if you started an album with songs A1, A2, A3... , then queued up two songs Q1, Q2, you'd see this:
A1
---
Queue:
Q1
Q2
Add to queue
---
Continue Playing album whatever:
A2
A3
...
Still no mention of a system like spotify connect. huge oversight from apple on this!
I never understood all the criticism of iTunes (except for the file transfer for files "within" iPhone apps; that is truly atrocious; the Finder should have enabled that ages ago).
iTunes is miles better than Apple Music for macOS. This one is a total disaster. A regression in so many fronts. It feels abandoned and neglected.
iTunes was good software and was killed for all the criticism and also for the "constant revenue" of Apple Music.
I wish I cloud use the latest version of iTunes in the latest version of macOS.
Crazy that it took this long… usually when wanting to queue suggestions from the “new releases” I have to carefully select the whole single/EP/albums “Play Next” but in reverse order so that it ends being in the order I need it.
“Play Last” is all wonky and gets added AFTER the continue infinite autoplay generated list (which is also wonky and at least on macOS the Shuffle and Autoplay related infinite songs buttons disappear at times don’t know why).
Sometimes it feels like there’s only one developer part time for all of the Apple Music front end.
“Play Last” is all wonky and gets added AFTER the continue infinite autoplay generated list (which is also wonky and at least on macOS the Shuffle and Autoplay related infinite songs buttons disappear at times don’t know why).
Sometimes it feels like there’s only one developer part time for all of the Apple Music front end.
Back in the days of iOS 6, when you turn your iPhone / iPod Touch in landscape, app used to show all your albums in beautiful cover flow. There used to be "i" button on the album artwork. Tapping on that button used to show album track list.
Side Note: One of the best way to enjoy and explore album artworks was through cover flow. That is why I am still holding on to my iPod Touch 4th Gen with 3rd party battery replacement which has that skeuomorphic iOS 6.