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

This seems deliberate as is completely unacceptable. Why is Apple crippling its own software? Do they want to force us into their streaming service? If they push us too much with such anti-consumer behaviour, they'll end up pushing us into the competition's arms instead. Sheesh! I'm sending feedback through their website, but I'll feign ignorance and, treating this as a bug (even though we all know it isn't), give them a call as well.

When it comes to your local library, it adds ZERO stress to Apple's servers. Why should non-Apple Music users (i.e. Music.app users) be treated as second-class citizens just because they want to integrate the whole thing and save a few bucks in the process? Heck, even Spotify seems to handle local libraries just fine. Come to think of it, I might give it a go… If they are smart enough about it, they might actually steer users away from Music.app. That would be glorious karma…

I am not a fan of this change as well.

First, the search feature was greatly reduced at, or not long after, the change from iTunes to Music.

Now, I can't see media that I have added chronologically with greater accuracy than by year??

Not cool.

Still borked in final public release of macOS 14.1. Sent feedback several days ago but so let's see how it is in future updates. I don't like how they handled the situation with recently added tab, as it's actings as an album tab with different sorting...

I've filled out the feedback form but I'm not very hopeful. Does anyone know of any music management software out there that has that feature of being able to sort your library by the date added and shows the albums by the cover art? I've been looking and there is very little out there.

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.

Good point. The previous time must have been a slipped release of the "new normal". It would indeed be super nice to give us the ability to make our own version. There are so many great things about Apple Music and a seemingly equal number of annoyances like this...

I absolutely agree with this! ☹️☝️ I was extremely frustrated when I discovered this the first time I "upgraded" to Sonoma. I spoke to Apple Support, however there wasn't much help there... I had to revert back to Ventura because of battery issues amongst other problems and by doing that it brought back the Recently Added section. Then when the first update to the Sonoma OS came I once again tried the upgrade. Most of the other issues were gone including the battery problem I had, however the album artwork in the 'Unlimited Recently Added' format was gone again and now only displays a few rows... really disappointing as I find it hard to easily locate music and having it in that format made me easily recognise where I was in a span of time so to speak and therefore where to locate specific songs easily. I really really hope they fix this.... It was a great way of going back through time and memories of my life visually which I loved.

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.

The awful thing about the difference between this issue and iOS is that at least in iOS' Apple Music app, you can sort Albums by Date Added. They have left it out for a stupid reason in MacOS, and truncated the Recently Added section. Gotta have one or the other, Apple— let us sort by Recently Added to the beginning of time or let us sort in Album View by Recently Added. Leaving this feature out is maddeningly stupid, and easy to fix.

this new limitation is a nightmare. already hated it on the iphone.

and one of the reasons I kept my mac was the unlimited recently added view which I loved.

is there any alternative music software? I really considering switching because it doesn't make sense to continue using apple music anymore.

This unacceptable solution. The feature was there and should work just like it was before the update.

Tis is yet another example of the enshitification of products by Apple to force users to a paid service.

This is a disastrous change. I almost exclusively work in ‘Recently Added’.

It’s true that in the website version, this restriction to 60 albums is not present, but over there the albums that you bought on, let’s say, Bandcamp, don’t show up.

Atrocious idea of Apple Music. I hate it.

OMG. I just updated to Sonoma and discovered this hideous example of "enshitification". I don't understand how developers look at a feature like Recently Added in the Music app and just decide to gut it into oblivion. Recently Added, the way it was, was incredibly useful. Now, with it only showing 60 titles, it's less than pointless. I upgraded this past summer to a brand new M2 Mini after slugging it out on my 2011 Mini for over a decade and went through **** trying to transfer my music library from iTunes to the new Music app. It was a nightmare that took weeks of fussing to finally figure out and resolve. Even at that, I found the new app significantly "dumbed down" compared to iTunes, and it would seem the slide just keeps on slipping.

I have been in complete agreement with your replies to this issue. I spend too much time in "Recently Added" view to accept that this new variation is anything other than a placeholder for a return of the original functionality.