I tried putting together some playlists for songs from Apple Music yesterday before iTunes became available. Well, what an annoying experience! I searched for Apple Music songs that I wanted to add to the playlist, pressed their three dot button and chose "Add to playlist" to add them to the correct playlist. I added ten songs, then I checked the playlist. Hey, only seven are there. I add the missing three songs and go on. Well, after a while I notice that it is a complete lottery whether a song is really added to a playlist or not. To create a playlist of 50 songs, I had to add about 70, and I had to keep checking which songs got added and which ones didn't. Sometimes, the last song I added did not appear, but when I added another song, it was suddenly there. Bizarre.
The craziest thing: Once, a song even vanished from a playlist right in front of my eyes. "Blip!" and it was gone.
Well, then the iTunes update came and I thought it would be easier there. But no - I just had to deal with different issues. First of all, when I find a song in Apple Music, its three dot button menu does not have an "Add to playlist" option. First, I have to add the song to my library, then I have to go to my library and add it to my playlist. On the iPad, that is a one touch operation. Well, now I started adding songs to a long playlist. I tried to add three songs to the end of a playlist, just above the last song. Well, that doesn't actually work. Whenever I try to shove the songs in there, the song list jumps back up to the top. So if I have more than ~16 songs in the list, I can't drag and drop songs to the bottom of the list. As I would assume that most people build their playlists from the top down, I'd consider that a major bug.
And no, that last one is not an Apple Music issue, but an iTunes issue. It just really helps with spoiling the whole Apple Music user experience.
I think that for a streaming service, playlists are a core feature, so I am quite surprised that nobody at Apple has noticed yet that editing playlists for Apple Music is really difficult and quite buggy.
The craziest thing: Once, a song even vanished from a playlist right in front of my eyes. "Blip!" and it was gone.
Well, then the iTunes update came and I thought it would be easier there. But no - I just had to deal with different issues. First of all, when I find a song in Apple Music, its three dot button menu does not have an "Add to playlist" option. First, I have to add the song to my library, then I have to go to my library and add it to my playlist. On the iPad, that is a one touch operation. Well, now I started adding songs to a long playlist. I tried to add three songs to the end of a playlist, just above the last song. Well, that doesn't actually work. Whenever I try to shove the songs in there, the song list jumps back up to the top. So if I have more than ~16 songs in the list, I can't drag and drop songs to the bottom of the list. As I would assume that most people build their playlists from the top down, I'd consider that a major bug.
And no, that last one is not an Apple Music issue, but an iTunes issue. It just really helps with spoiling the whole Apple Music user experience.
I think that for a streaming service, playlists are a core feature, so I am quite surprised that nobody at Apple has noticed yet that editing playlists for Apple Music is really difficult and quite buggy.