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itsPhilos Author

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

Since Mountain Lion and iTunes, there was a way to view all added entries since inception of the library, in chronological order based on the added-time. This is a wonderful way of traveling back in time through the years of music, on which years which music has been added, and re-discovering old tracks.

For a long time, this has been present under the "Recently Added" section in "Library".

Since macOS Sonoma, this is no longer the case.

"Recently Added" currently shows 60 albums on my library, and I suspect this is hard-limited to this number. I find no way of lifting this limit, nor do I find a replacement view.

Edit: Notably, this feature is still present on music.apple.com.

Is this an error on my part or did macOS Sonoma depart from this - to me - essential feature of the Music app?

Posted on Sep 27, 2023 12:16 PM

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jjsvilar

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9 points

Posted on Sep 28, 2023 1:43 PM

Apple: please fix this. It's unacceptable to remove a long-time feature for no reason. At least leave it in as a toggle or option. iOS can still do it in the album view. Why can't my more powerful Mac?

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Nov 30, 2023 9:37 AM in response to ed2345

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.

Nov 30, 2023 3:09 PM in response to FrankVX

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.

Dec 23, 2023 11:43 PM in response to donmattinglyfan

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.

turingtest2

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Dec 24, 2023 2:07 AM in response to metropolitan

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.

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srizvi1

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23 points

Jan 21, 2024 11:52 AM in response to itsPhilos

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.

May 22, 2024 1:08 PM in response to maxyc

With an update last fall Apple made changes such that the Recently Added view only showed the last 60 entries to your music library. Then after a lot of very strong responses on this board, and perhaps elsewhere, they changed it back and you were once again able to view your entire music library in chronological order from the recently viewed section. Are you saying with this latest update that they have now taken it away again?

ed2345

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Sep 27, 2023 6:15 PM in response to itsPhilos

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.

Sep 28, 2023 10:11 AM in response to itsPhilos

This is a really poor change. Previous to the update I could sort the Albums tab by date added - that is also missing. Can we open a bug fix / feature request anywhere so this comes back?