Syncing (Apple) Music from MacBook to iPhone: "Albums" tab in Sync window does not include Artist! Help?

Previously when I used iTunes on my MacBook and synced selected my music by Albums to my iPhone, the Sync window "by Album" logically listed the corresponding Artist next to each Album. (And you could sort by Artist even though you were on the Album tab, making syncing extremely quick & easy.)


With the new standard (Apple) Music app, when I try to perform the same syncing operation from my MacBook, it still has an "Albums" tab to make selections to sync, however there is no corresponding Artist next to each album to identify who it is. Considering I have literally thousands of albums, it's almost impossible to go through the Album tab of the Sync window list and identify the vast majority of Albums or who the Artist is.


For example, I have 44 albums titled simply "Greatest Hits" (that's it; no Artist name). So when I want to sync my Apple Music with my iPhone, and I want to select certain albums to sync and I go to the "Albums" tab of the Music sync window, there are 44 albums listed as "Greatest Hits" with ZERO other identifying information. It's literally impossible to determine what any of these 44 albums are (i.e. who the Artist is).


Has anyone been able to resolve this issue and include Artists with the Album titles? Is there a workaround? Has Apple acknowledged this MAJOR design flaw is currently working to resolve this??


Thanks for any help in advance.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Apr 17, 2021 8:26 PM

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Posted on Apr 19, 2021 2:24 AM

One new playlist, e.g. iPhone Essentials. Drag the albums you want to be sure make it onto the phone into that list and add it to the sync selections. You don't need a playlist per album.


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Apr 18, 2021 7:30 PM in response to turingtest2

I saw someone offer this same advice in another message board, but the problem is that I heavily use Playlists as well. I have 200+ Playlists that I sync with my iPhone. If I want to add 200-300 Albums to my iPhone using this technique, I'm going to have 400-500 "Playlists", and it's going to be an enormous pain in the neck trying to scroll through them all and distinguish Album-Playlists from actual mix Playlists -- not to mention the fact that it's going to take hours and hours to create 200-300 new Playlists from albums.

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