In iTunes, you could filter by genre, artist, or album using the drop-down menu in the "songs" view of your library. With the filter search option in the new Mac Music app, it you can only search. For instance, I want to see all songs in a particular genre or album. I can search for that, but it will show other results.
What happened to the filtering feature from iTUnes?
MacBook
Yes, I see that. The problem is that the filter field is just searching for whatever I type, and if I type in a Genre like "Pop," then it will include songs with "Pop" in the title that aren't in the Genre "Pop." There was a functionality in iTunes where you could see a list of genres, artists, albums, etc. in a particular playlist, and then click on one of those to filter.
What happened to that functionality?
I could not agree more.
Taking away that filter really debilitates my ability to search my library.
Please bring it back.
Sure it's deliberate. Drop the good old iTunes experience, push everybody to the new subscription service
That allows search by keywords present in playlist, but not serach by genre
Yes, buy you can't search by genre
Thanks Turingtest2, That's gotta work. I was using the search function of the top left corner, not the one on the right that you select from the pulldown menu.
Yep, the filter field search is much more useful.
tt2
and you have to do it every time you want it. why can't it just stay once you have selected it.
I found it but, why is the question. It was just ther in iTunes. Why take it away? It seem the redesign was done by someone who does not use the program.
Apple lost its vision when Steve Jobs left us... they used to be so cutting edge and I've been an Mac guys since 1990
Under the View Menu, you need to select "Show Filter Field"
I am trying to figure out how to save this as a default setting when I open the ap if anyone knows.
Really? If you want to search your library, the user has manually set that each session? Thanks for the quick reply!
Filtering Apple Music in Catalina by Genre or Album
