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iOS 7 Music App
- Thread starter ggarnold
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I'm confused why you don't have cover flow (ok not iOS 6 cover flow, but it shows me all my album art).....when I turn mine sideways, I see all my album covers beginning with "a" and shown alphabetically like so:
EDIT: Dude....turn your phone sideways and tap the album cover.....it'll get out of the album selection and show all the albums again.
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Do people not realize you can simply type out the album name instead of scrolling through songs, albums etc?
Hell, you don't even have to go into the app itself. Just type it from spotlight and find it. If you have a bunch of music, it takes a while to scroll regardless how its sorted.
Sometimes I feel like people complain before bothering to see if there's another way to do something. Learn new things - you might find they're better than the older thing being replaced.
I experienced my share of bugs with the music app on 7.0.X.....so far on 7.1, its all good. Layout, design etc is all fine. No problem with Match messing up my albums and whatnot.
Maybe I'm special - seems like all these issues people have with various parts of iOS and the iPhone never seem to affect me. Am I lucky or are people just overdramatic....
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Where is it sorted by year? When I go into the "Albums" tab, mine are sorted alphabetically.
EDIT: When I go into the "Artists" tab (which are also sorted alphabetically) and tap on a artist, the albums are listed with the newest first. Is this what you mean? Again - just search instead of scrolling.....faster all the way around.
Its not just clicking and playing a song. I also like to browse through the music collection from one artist. The most logical order would be to list all albums alphabetically. Now when the albums are sorted per year it looks like some random order because the year tag is the least important.
I know you can quickly search and play a song but this is more about the look and feel of the music app itself.
Ok - well in your post you mentioned it being "difficult to quickly find the album you're looking for". That was what I responded to.
It used to be the other way round - in Artist view, all Albums were listed in chronological order, oldest first - which, logically, if how you'd listen to an Artist's body of work.
In 7.1 this has changed. It's now the other way round.
Exactly. And the bug introduced in 7.1 is that, regardless of how things were set by default in the app, the "sort album" tags set in iTunes would override these changes, and you'd be able to sort however you like when you'd sync your music (or let it update through iTunes Match). 7.1, though, isn't reading the "sort album" tags.
Thanks for the tip.
Upgraded my son iPad Mini and i saw that Add All Songs is now there.
If only they could have collapsed albums under Artist view...
Anyway my 5s will remain on 7.0.6 till jb is available since i'm delighted having gotten rid of the nasty EU volume limits via JB.
For those wondering: no you don't get rid of the EU volume limits from settings. You just override the first limit (85db) but not the second (100db) nor the annoying colored squares that turn on the screen.
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On my iPhone 5s the landscape view shows my albums sorted according to my 'sort album' 2nd order tag (which is release date).
In the old cover flow the order was Artist and then sort album. I'd wish the arrangemente of the landscape view would use the same criteria.
Does the landscape view remain the same (sorting wise) on 7.1 ?
Yes I agree. One of the biggest wtf moments of the Music app in iOS7.
Another thing they HAVE fixed with 7.1. The shuffle button next to each album now only activates shuffle for that specific album (like it should do). Pre 7.1 pressing that shuffle button shuffled the entire artist's catalogue.
I noticed that, too. But would it have killed them to add the obvious play button there, so you could play just the one album?
For real inconsistency, look at the Remote app. It's got the same overall design as Music, but it sorts alphabetically and has no buttons next to the album, not even shuffle. There's also a bug where it will only show art for the first four or five albums under a given artist, at least until one of the albums missing art is entered.
It feels like nobody is in charge of the Music and Remote apps, because how could anyone with any sense and taste sign off on them? I mean, for Music, switching from chronological order to reverse chronological order and providing no option to switch back and forth and ignoring the pleas for alphabetical? Ignoring the pleas to collapse albums and respect album boundaries?
Why can't I add a song I'm currently listening to to a playlist? This is beyond silly. Rdio, Spotify, and Google Music all can do this on-the-fly playlist management.
Do you even know what CoverFlow is? Check out a YouTube video to see.
It was designed to be like an album rack that you flick through to see which album to play.
It is not some flat, hard to read gird of album artwork.
Now, I am not a fan of CoverFlow, nor do I care that it is missing, I just want something intuitive to happen when my phone goes in landscape mode.
Like, I don't know, stay on the song and album it is currently playing?
Did you bother to read my entire post? I get that it isn't "Cover Flow" (which seemed like the same kinda thing as the current cover list to me), but I was speaking to the fact that the poster was complaining about it showing a completely different set of songs when he turned it sideways....that's only because he had one of those albums selected. It's not that the phone doesn't know what's playing.
I would agree though that neither cover flow nor the current landscape layout really offer anything.
No matter how hard I try I can't get the grid to align so that it would show me the album that is currently playing when I turn my device into landscape mode. How does one even "unselect" an album?
There's no correlation between the two views (portrait and landscape) on my device no matter what is on screen when I switch from portrait to landscape, it always shows the leftmost end of the album wall (unless I have previously scrolled it to some other position, in which case it will show that part of the wall).
Edit: actually I got what you were saying – you probably meant that if there was an album selected in the landscape view it would always show that when the device is rotated. Yes, tapping the cover would put the album back into the grid but it still doesn't solve the problem that the grid/wall never actively aligns with the album that is currently playing.
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You are correct - it doesn't ever show the album that's playing - simply goes into an alphabetically ordered view of all your album art. If I tap on an Album it brings up the song list. Tap the album art again and it goes away.
Cover flow wasn't much different except that it showed everything in one row instead of the grid it is now. Personally, I think they're both worthless - but it doesn't really bother me.
What bothers me is the fact they took away the ability to add songs to a playlist from another playlist.....I used to move songs to my Favorite playlist from the purchased smart playlist all the time because that's the stuff I had just bought - but I didn't necessarily want all of it.....now I can't do that.
That's my only gripe with the music app now that they've hammered out the kinks and crashes.
It wasn't much different, true, but it was different in one big way: when you turned the device from portrait to landscape, instead of going to the beginning or some arbitrary point in the row of albums you last happened to look at in landscape mode (like the current implementation does), it would automatically show you the album that was currently playing.
If you were in the Now Playing screen, the current album would simply turn sideways and the other albums would appear beside it. That served as a good visual indication of continuity between two modes of the application. There's no such continuity in iOS 7 between portrait and landscape.
I recently purchased Ecoute for the iPhone and it's a great music player app. I would recommend it. Feels like the app Apple should have made.
It has the collapsed album list when selecting an artist which was key for me.
I'm also sure it updated play count etc for iTunes if that is something that is of interest and it also works with the music controls in the control center.
It has the collapsed album list when selecting an artist which was key for me.
I'm also sure it updated play count etc for iTunes if that is something that is of interest and it also works with the music controls in the control center.
Playing something from the system music library is a global function in iOS. You can see this by putting on some music in a third-party music player and then going to the built-in Music app the same song is playing there. It works the other way around too. That's why the play counts are updated appropriately.
iTunes Radio is freaking awesome, so much better than Pandora and Jango.
What's the BR for streaming free music, 192K? It sounds really good on my iPad 2 with headphones.
iTunes Radio BR is 256 kbps, in other words same as the downloaded files.