I second disliking that you have to scroll through each album to get to the most recent album release. I do *love* that they are in order by album release (yes I put the year for all of my music and I do like to listen to a particular artists works in order), but I do wish they would have left it as a list view as before where you clicked the album to see the songs. It's a lot of scrolling to get to the most recent album for an artist with many albums. A design of album list, with the artwork and a second line with the year (and maybe the overall album rating based on the individually rate songs) would have been more preferable to me. You click the album to get to the song list.
I disagree that it's an absolute trainwreck. My main reason for iTunes Match is because I have a huge library that doesn't fit on any flash-drive based device until they get to 128+ GB in size AND because I use smart playlists extensively. For me, iTunes Match was a FLOP prior to improvements in the service as of late because I depend a lot on my playcount and Last Played track details to be updated correctly. Prior to recent fixes in the service, playcounts from iOS devices always incremented twice for a single play. Also, the fact that the song was even played at all seemed not to reliably be synced back to the cloud library. This rendered smart playlists that depended on these variable to update AT SOME POINT to be useless.
I've been testing the syncing progress for the last week with regards to iOS devices, and aside from the assinine part where a synce of the iOS devices song plays will only occur every 12 hours and will only be initiated once the 12 hours has elapsed and a song is played from the iOS device completely through, the syncing of the play history does indeed seem to finally wokr reliably.
I don't know what this means for others, but for me and a very loud contingent across the web, this is a BFD.
The software interface definitely needs work, but the underlying operation of the service, save for today's events, seems to be notedly better. Being irritated by software UI choices is one thing, but a service inherently not working as it is supposed to is, imo, more unacceptable. iOS devices not syncing play information on a service that is SUPPOSED to have this feature to me was just unacceptable. I hope it continues to work as it's supposed to, as it has for the last few days finally (obviously save for the entire service mostly not working at all today).
And why, after all these years, can you STILL not add the currently playing song to a playlist from the now playing screen?!?!?!?! Why do I STILL have to find the playlist, add a song, and then search for the NOW PLAYING song in a list of 20,000 songs just to add the now playing song to a list? #$&*(#$@(*#&$(*#@*&
PFox78 wrote:
This is exactly what happened to me yesterday.
But this isn't the extent of the problems. I turned off Match and tried to sync again, and for some reason, the syncing hangs forever (never used to before) and some albums' artwork isn't even showing when it does perfectly in iTunes and my old, trusty iPod Classic. (Of course, it did before in iOS 6)
In addition to this, I hate the fact there's no longer an album screen like there was earlier. As OP stated, why do I have to scroll through every single song of an artist to get to the last album? It's terribly inefficient.
Furthermore, in the past, you could set the "sort album" tags and they would follow through perfectly on the iPhone and through iTunes Match. Now, it's all in chronological order. That's not what I want.
Most of us here became huge fans of this company because of the iPod and music management. Now, it's a complete disaster. Who can we even contact to bring these issues up?
