Albums view/listing in music app in iOS 7

Yes, it is an absolutely disaster. I have never downgraded software in my life, until two days ago - I went back to iOS 6. Music app is unusable now, unless you are a record collector. Those seem to be the only ones pleased with this.

Isiah's response higher up in the thread is right on.

Hey how did you go back to ios6? Or is your phone jail broken? Mine isn't. If you could let me know either way that would be appreciated, thanks!

I'd like to know the downgrade process as well. thinking about it myself. I have iOS 7 on my personal and work phone, but thinking about switching my personal back to iOS 6 since it has all my music.

I agree 1000%. The new Music app is a travesty. It's an insult to those of us who have enjoyed listening to music back to the original iPods.

themidnightwill wrote:

Yes, it is an absolutely disaster. I have never downgraded software in my life, until two days ago - I went back to iOS 6. Music app is unusable now, unless you are a record collector. Those seem to be the only ones pleased with this.

Isiah's response higher up in the thread is right on.

"Record collectors" are actually the ones most displeased with the new Music app, because they tend to have lots of albums they like to browse by artist, which the new Music app has thoroughly borked, and they want their music player to respect album boundaries when playing music and shuffling, which the new Music app does not do.

Isaiah,

Your bullet points are spot on. Exactly my feelings about the new ill-conceived Music app.

Add me as well. The new music views ("album wall") are an atrocity against humanity. When phone is rotated you just get an unsorted grid of all album art work! Not alphabetized, nor does it "center" on the currently playing album.

Apple, no clue what you were thinking here, but this needs to be fixed soon! Thinking about restoring to my iOS 6 backup; as the music is probably the next biggest usage i have outside of making and taking calls or texts.

theplague wrote:

Just wanted to remind everyone to:

Please write to Apple and highlight this issue through here!:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I hope everyone submits the feedback at least once a day until it's fixed. This was a conscious design decision. They did the same thing to the Remote App back in January, except they haven't yet inflicted the hybrid album/songs list on the Remote App. However, like the new Music app, the Remote App stopped respecting album boundaries when entering through Artists view, treating all songs by an artist as belonging to an implicit playlist, such that it's impossible to play or shuffle a single album. I started a thread on the Remote App back in January which describes the same things the Music app is doing now:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4690418

I see no other conclusion other than, this is clearly how they think it should work, which is why submitting voluminous amounts of feedback is going to be important. As you can see, I didn't get any replies to my Remote App thread, and the feedback I submitted for it was ignored.

The most frustrating thing for me is that you can no longer hold down a song/album to see the full title if the title is longer than the screen. If you listen to a lot of classical music, you know how important this is, since in classical music, titles are often very long and differ only in the last few words:

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: I. Allegro

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: II. Adagio

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: III. Menuetto (Allegretto)

Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1: IV. Prestissimo

iPhone's screen can only fit "Piano Sonata No. 1 in F M" and there is no anymore an easy and convenient way to see the full title. This also applies to Playlists view, as most of the space is now taken by album art.

Also, you can't delete entire albums anymore if you want to free space. You have to do it song by song. Guess what, I have complete works albums (bought from iTunes) with hundreds of songs. It will take while deleting them track by track. The lost functionality for no good reason is very frustrating.

By the way, the design flaws of the new Music app were actually known for a long time. On MacRumors forums, there is a 14-pages topic about that started back in June: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1601540&highlight=music+app

I submitted feedback as well. This actually causes my phone to crash when viewing artist pages with lots of albums.

No, you have slightly the wrong idea.

What you do is to set your iPad to receive all your music, including that in iMatch. Find on the iPad what you want to play, and then air play to the Apple TV.

The Apple TV update then recognises what you have selected, and plays and downloads the tune itself, bypassing the iPad. That is rather clever I thought, and explained on the Apple TV interface somewhere.

So that is why I think the remote app is being dropped.

Should have added, it works the same way with libraries of music on your iTunes PC, and the control works the same from an iPhone.

Judging by the Apple TV update, I'd say there must be another update to follow, since all the graphics haven't changed, and rather blatantly don't match the iOS 7 in style whatsoever any more.