macOS Music - "Recently Added" no longer showing all entries

Its Philos,

If Recently Added is no longer leaving as you wish, you can put your library in Songs view and sort by Date Added. That will allow the time travel that you describe.

I just updated to MacOS 14.2.1, and IT'S BACK!!! I can see again my full "Recently added" playlist back to 2005!!! Apple listened to the community! I am beyond grateful!

Yes, I agree, this is a loss, in both in functionality and enjoyment. However, you can still get a date-added chronology in Songs View. If you select sort by date added and show art work in the view options you will almost have the former album view experience - the list will be longer though. Cheers!

Try Cider. It does cost money (but it's inexpensive, less than $5), but it manages your Apple Music web interface with it and has some pretty great features. The 2.2 version works relatively well, and has the Recently Added section go to the beginning of the library. If Apple refuses to listen to its customers, I recommend moving that way. Otherwise there are things like Swinsian, Strawberry, and others that can utilize better interfaces that have the features we want for local music libraries. But Cider is the closest thing that works with your Apple Music subscription. Unsure if Cider can use only a local library, I think it is mainly through Apple Music, but if you upload your music library to an iCloud library, it'll work fine.

metropolitan wrote:

I am on the same OS version, and it Music is still limiting the Recently Added sharply to that same number (60)

Why is this selectively available? Do people seeing it also have the Apple music streaming service? I do not.

Have you updated to macOS 14.2 yet? The issue should be fixed in Music 1.4.2.83 which should be part of that build of macOS.

tt2

One trick that I use is to add the column in the 'All Songs' view in the Music app on MacOS that includes the date the item was added to your library. I doubt this is available on iOS, but possible.

I feel like this is a bug, particularly when https://music.apple.com shows 150 titles rather than 60, nevertheless I suspect it will help if people use Product Feedback - Apple to let Apple know they would like the correct behaviour restored.

tt2

It's fixed! With the just released macOS 14.2 Apple fixed it!

I used my laptop, so I can't answer for the app. On the laptop : Feedback - Apple Music - Apple

In any case, I know for a fact that it has nothing to do with the app itself. It's been a formal decision of Apple to limit Recently Added to 60 albums on all platforms. For more nerdy info : https://droidwin.com/apple-music-recently-added-will-now-only-show-60-albums-in-sonoma/

It's definitely not a bug - it's by design to show the last 60 albums as it does on iOS. It makes sense for a "recently added tab" but then they need to gives us a "library tab" with the same view that shows us everything in the order we added it - which is exactly how i'd browse and organise my real life record collection.

On iPad and iPhone, you're right that the Recently Added is only 60 albums. But in the Albums list, which has all your albums, you can sort by Date Added, making it functionally the same as Recently Added but with everything there. The metadata is obviously in the library on all platforms, so it is totally bizarre that you can't sort on it.

Only 60 Most Recent Items Shown in Music Recently Added on Mac OS Sonoma

The recently added music section of the library on Mac computers used to show all music added from most recent to very first addition. The new OS Sonoma now only shows the last 60 items added. IOS for iPhone and iPad always showed the last 60 items added and now Sonoma has followed suit. That’s disappointing because I really liked going back and seeing when I added items/albums. I was able to back to 2008 and see what was first added. I hope Apple willadd that back into future Mac OS systems updates.

ItsPhilos,

That is quite understandable. I actually can't be sure how many folks have been using "Recently Added" to look all the way back in time chronologically, but it does seem that functionality has been removed. You can certainly provide your feedback directly to Apple at this link:

Product Feedback - Apple