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

@realdannys - Unless you're on a beta version, there's been no update to Sonoma or Apple Music since this problem has presented itself.

Also, of course Apple won't fix it if nobody fills out the product feedback form.

Product Feedback - Apple

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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/

Yea, I'm not very hopeful myself. I can't think of any examples of Apple reversing a change that they made that was unpopular with users.

However all we can do is send feedback. I don't know if this is new, I don't remember seeing it before but there is a link to send feedback about iTunes not that this is iTunes anymore. Wherever we send feedback at least someone is reading it.

ITunes feedback

Apple Music feedback

Only way they'll hear you is to send feedback!

What reasons?

ItsPhilos;

Your suggestion, twice posted, totally misses the point. Sorting chronologically by album cover is pleasing to look at and easy to browse.

And I only have to look at 2,751 albums

Sorting every single song in your library, songs that appear as lines of text, not just the album represented by the album cover art but every single song on every single album being represented by a line of text, is tedious and almost impossible to look at beyond the first 50 to 100 lines.

To sort through over 16K lines of text like this? I'm sure that you continue to post your "solution" with the intent of being helpful and I suppose if I only had a few hundred songs that might be. But it doesn't offer a work around for people with lots of albums and songs.

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing.

tt2

I am ecstatic! I love it when this kind of thing happens.

I love the "date added" sort almost as much as I love the Recently added album cover art view. Especially now that it's no longer limited to 60 albums :-)

Love this! I recently sent feedback and then read this thread to find out it's fixed!

Looks like the time machine is back! Amazing!

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!

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.

Yep such a terrible idea. Apple should at the very least offer the option of letting you choose if you want to limit your scrolling instead of forcing this change on us or implementing a sort by Date Added on the albums section like they do with songs. One way I have found a workaround is by creating a smart playlist and viewing it with the album cover showing but unfortunately Apple does not offer a Date Added sort option. Fingers crossed they restore this to how it was because this is seriously such an unnecessary and disruptive change.

I would like to strongly urge Apple to bring back the "Recently Added" full list in chronological order. I have read hundreds of threads from similar users like myself that go back to look for Artists that we forgot about and "re-discover" a lot of our music. I can't imagine this adds a lot of stress to Apple's servers. I can go back on my iPhone and look up a text message from 2005 with my iCloud sync turned on. I also think this feature needs to come back iOS. Even if it did put stress on their servers I think its a justified cost to support their streaming service that make a lot of money off of Apple Music subscriptions.