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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

I've sent feedback. I also have worked exclusively in 'Recently Added' because I am adding music constantly. I'm a 30-year veteran DJ producing a community radio show, and this needless change to the Music app seriously disrupts my work. Suddenly I cannot access easily the music I added last week, which is how I routinely choose new, fresh music for my audience. This is a terrible change that continues the descent from iTunes. For nearly the first time in over 40 years of being Apple-centric, someone who helps others learn Mac skills, someone who has purchased dozens of Apple computers for non-profit organizations, I am questioning the advice I often give others: Apple just makes computers that let you get your work done. It's getting harder to do, for me.

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.

I broadcast a jazz show on a community radio station. The old way the Recently Added worked was very helpful for reminding me of the new music I have accumulated over the year, especially when it came around to keeping track of the Best of the Year selections. My show focuses on newer jazz music that people can go out and see versus playing a lot of the old legends. I go through a lot of new music each year and my memory isn't like a steel trap anymore. When it comes to keeping track of my favorite new albums of the year I want to avoid a "recency effect." So I would welcome a return to the more extensive Recently Added list. There was no reason to eliminate it in the first place.

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!

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.

I'm really glad this worked out. My default sort is on recently added.

I was in the middle of a migration of data from my old 16" 2019 Intel MacBook Pro to my newer 2023 16" MacBook Pro so I was worried there was something else going on between the older and newer year hardware.

Given that it is available via browser, I don't see why this is not in the app... @Apple please fix this....

I agree with others and am glad to see more people were used to this recently added "timeline" view to memorizing and browsing the music using album covers. Now, the app is useless for me...

its gross they need to change it back asap like please. also it keeps splitting up my albums when I download yet it'll show up normal as just one album on my phone?