Albums view/listing in music app in iOS 7

I second this concern.

After upgrading, the first thing I wanted to play was a specific album. I didn't remember the album name, but I remembered the artist, so I looked up the Artist.

I have 33 albums for that artist. I was confused at first... then discovered I had to scroll down, down, down, down, until finally reaching the album I wanted. It seems to be chronologically ordered, ascending, so the latest album for this artist was at the bottom of the list...

Wouldn't be so bad if it was just a list of albums, but I have to scroll through every song on every album... there's got to a better way.

i agree, the new viewing is terrible. I have artist that has 77 albums.....77 albums with some concerts having close to 30 songs.... trying to find what i want is horrible. Looking at the allbums might work, but i cant look at albums by artist, just all albums... kinda disappointed in the music

Add me to the list that dislikes this change. I've emailed apple support.

I'm also not impressed with the changes they have made to the music app. I listen to my music a lot so it's really important that it's easy to use for me to find what I want to listen to. When I was using it before the update to iOS7 I would flip it into landscape album view. Here I could see all of my album covers and could easily navigate my way through as it put each album artist into alphabetical order. Now they have changed this to show multiple albums at a time in alphabetical order of album name and NOT albums artist. This for me just does not work! Anyway I've emailed apple about it like the person above suggested so we'll just have to wait and see if they respond to this in their next update. Until then I'll just have to use the artist tab which I'm not a huge fan of either.

I've also emailed Apple. Why would anyone want to view albums sorted by title in landscape, rather than by artist. It doesn't make any sense. This was the main reason why I changed from Android, so I could use the basic ability to view albums sorted by artist. Why is it so hard to impliment, it's so basic. Hopefully if enough people give Apple feedback they'll change it in 7.1. If not, I dont see any point in staying with this system.

Agreed!!

The new Music app in iOS7 is horrible. Reduced functionality and the functionality that is there doesn't make intuitive sense.

In addition, my main issues/corrections:

1) Give the user an option to display, or not display, the large album art beside the Artist listing. The large album art beside each Artist takes up too much room and conveys no useful information.

2) Within each Artist allow the user to select a listing of the albums (as in iOS6). Scrolling through albums does not make sense. Allow the user to select from a list!

3) Within each Artist allow the user to sort the albums alphabetically. Sort the albums by title NOT date! Why sorting albums by date?

4) Within each Artist replace the selection to play all songs (as in iOS6). In iOS7 only option is to shuffle play the songs.

As it stands now in iOS7 the Music app has reduced functionality and is a horrible experience for the user.

Er ... you can shuffle tracks on an album! The little shuffle avatar is still there.

for those struggling with the design layout like me, i sorta found a work around. If you select the artist, then type the artist name in the search box it will list all the albums first in alphabetical order (like IOS 6 did). If you scroll down you will then see it broken down by songs and what not, but at least the albums are listed first. Lousy design and and extra step but better then potentially scrollign through 1000s of songs to find the album you want 😕😮😢😠

Thanks - this is also the only way I've found to get an album to repeat instead of an artist. Got to make sure you're set up before you start driving, though!

I agree 100% with this. I have submitted feedback and used your post with a link to this thread/discussion.

I hope they fix it soon. The music app is a huge part of my usage.

Same here, the new Music app is an atrocity to use if you select an artist that has a lot of albums in the library. I baffled how this got through. Feedback = sent!

That Landscape album cover thing is just flat out Broken. It makes Windows Media Center look like a genius designed it.

COME ON APPLE! Seriously!