No Sort Options in Music on iMac

In iTunes I could sort my library in many ways -- by Title, Artist, Album, etc. In Music, all that specificity is gone. Why? If (for example) I am searching for songs with the word Great in the title, I cannot just look by title, so I get all albums with Greatest in the title. I have almost 35,000 songs in my library. The search function often gives me hundreds, if not thousands, of items when I search for something. PLEASE, give us back the options to specify what columns we want to search!

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Nov 29, 2021 11:47 AM

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Nov 30, 2021 6:38 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

Jim, it is not the same. In iTunes I would go to the Search box and there was a drop-down arrow where I could say I only wanted to search by title. If there is a workaround in Music to get that, I have not found it. Let me give you an example of what I use search for. I am an Internet DJ and always have a theme for my show. If I wanted to find songs with Dream in the title to create my playlist, it was very easy in iTunes. I went to Search, selected Title, and typed in Dream. Then, I only got what I was looking for. In Music, I cannot limit the search to Title, so when I type in Dream, I get 2,066 songs because there are many albums with Dream in the title. If I am missing the way to search by Song Title only, I would really appreciate knowing how to do that. Thanks

Nov 30, 2021 7:44 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

Jim,

I wrote a very detailed feedback request to Apple months ago and have not received a reply. Thanks for the suggestion, but the smart playlist option does not really work, either. Even if I create such a list, I cannot move the songs around within the playlist, add promos to it where needed, etc. That seems to be the case even if I copy the songs in the smart playlist and move them into a normal playlist.


The most aggravating aspect of all of this is that I am. not asking for a new feature, I am just asking Apple to give back what they had offered for 15 years or more.


Joe

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