Why no music search?

[frosse]

How can I post feedback to Apple about this missing feature? Is there like a feedback form?

 

[johnnyjibbs]

How can I post feedback to Apple about this missing feature? Is there like a feedback form?

Follow the link below:

Agree - i'd like this feature included

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

 

[pj rage]

Exactly. And it should be there for consistency (with the Contact app) if nothing else. In fact, it ought to be in-built into the SDK so that whenever an alphabetised list is used it automatically appears.

Totally agree. It should be uniform across the board. And using the contacts app as the mold.

 

[soberbrain]

I think OP means that the search function was there in the earlier iPods, but got "removed" from ipod Touch/iPhone.

And while the alphabet list on the side is useful for finding single songs, there are times when I want to search for, say, all songs with the word "love" in the title. Or, you know, I can't remember the first word of the song title, only word(s) in the middle. In fact, I'm somewhat disappointed the Touch/iPhone doesn't have a function to let you create on-the-fly Smart Playlists. Considering the versatility of the iPhone interface, it seems very doable, don't you think?

Agreed. Sent feedback to Apple.

 

[frosse]

Agreed. Sent feedback to Apple.

I too sent feedback 🙂

 

[psycoswimmer]

All made worse by a major flaw in the iPhone software in general: the swipe scrolling is beautiful but laborious for anything vaguely long. 😱

Why can't one even drag the scrollbar that comes up like on a computer?

"Flicking" through thousands of photos is surely the worst.

 

[upsguy27]

I suppose it would be nice to have, but I only have 700 songs so I don't really need to search because I know every single one.

 

[drakeshipway]

agreed its gay,
i miss it on my old nano.

 

[pj rage]

I'd love to at least have search within a playlist. Sometimes I want to hear a particular song on the playlist, but if the list is big (some of mine are huge), it is impossible to scroll through the unsorted list and find your song. Especially while driving. If I could at least choose to temporarily sort alphabetically or something, that would help, but I would love a search within playlist feature!

(And I know I could just look for the song name in the "songs" section, but then it would not continue shuffling through my playlist after). I think I'm going to try sorting the list alphabetically before it loads it to the phone (if possible) so I can at least scroll through that way for now.