I thought they would have taken to heart at least a few of those suggestions that got all the way to Tim Cook but it looks like none of it was even attempted.
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Apple Music on iOS 16 Introduces Playlist Sorting and Ability to Add Favorite Artists
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I've been waiting for smartplaylist functionality in ios since well, since ios has existed. Such a great feature for those who want to curate their own playlist. I don't know any other music subscription services that do this either so would be a nice advantage of AM. This feature being locked to a desktop just seems odd.
There’s also YouTube Music (and Amazon Music), which I use because it comes free with YouTube Premium (no ads) and, while far from perfect, has a more reasonable user interface than Apple Music, and at least YouTube has a huge long tail of music.
Basically everything I have used has a better interface than Apple Music
At worst some of them have been similar levels of frustrating but perhaps in different ways
Steve Jobs used to badmouth Microsoft saying they have no taste, but lately I’d have to say the same about Apple regarding UI design.
i just want bookmarking my playlist, starting at the next song where i stopped last time. just like we read books 🙏🏻
At least it now offers the ability to sort by album. It might not be grouped in a pretty manner like the desktop app but it’s something. I have custom smart playlists for favorite artists grouped by album and they’re a mess on iOS/iPad.
Can I remove a song from my library yet? If not... looks like it'll be another year of Spotify for me.
(PSST... Apple... no need to make Music part of your OS... its OK to make it its own separate app so that changes can be rolled out more than once per year!)
(PSST... Apple... no need to make Music part of your OS... its OK to make it its own separate app so that changes can be rolled out more than once per year!)
Came here to ask this. I only skimmed the keynote but I forgot about it until reading this title.
On a side note, how weird it must be for people who only listen to stuff like classical see stuff like modern hip-hop, pop, and rap that dominates the entire storefront 365 days a year. Or even to people who listen only genres such as classic rock or metal. Or really anything other than what dominates the storefront.
Like the bubbles you can tap and double tap to like and "extra" like certain artists? But I agree it's not on demand and ever-growing. That seems only like an initial set-up.
This, this, this!!! I have a 2500+ track playlist, with over 1000 different artists. Apples poorly built algorithm not only plays the same songs, it will play 2 songs from the same album in a 1 hour span from this 174 hour playlist.
The playlist sorting is a very good option to have. Glad that Apple has added this.
I checked myself.
Nope.
Really?! Why can't we use an EQ with CarPlay?! That's so dumb.