iOS7 Music Player. Am I missing something?

Hey Paul,

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions!

The filtering feature works best if you have a few soundtracks or other compilations in your library (which I do), but I can understand how it might not add much for some people.

As for those bugs you’ve encountered, I believe those are both on Apple’s end of things. But I’ve got a pretty good solution for the play/pause button issue that’ll be included in Picky’s next update.

Adding some way of browsing by genre, and some kind of playlist feature are both on my radar. The complication with playlists is that Apple’s frameworks don’t provide access to editing them, so any playlist creation or editing would have to be specific to Picky only.

I obviously can’t add every feature people ask for, but I’m trying to at least consider them all =).

Thanks again for the feedback!

– Charles

I've done it! Once you plug in your device, go to settings (of your device) on your computer's iTunes and make sure "manually manage music" is checked. Every playlist and album I dragged, sync'd yet were missing, reloaded and finally worked. There were no more red boxes and I purposely only checked my "recently added" playlist that worked before the iOS7.02 upgrade and not after. They are all working now on my iPad. Hope that helps someone else

That's on the iPad. Different on the phone, unfortunately. It's not fixed. 😟

Hi Charles,

Thanks for your reply. It's always great to chat with the developer. 😉

There is indeed something funky about the way the Music app is interacting with iCloud -- especially reading album names and other tag data. For instance, I have an album by Pat Metheny called "What's It All About", originally bought from the iTunes Music Store. On iTunes on my Mac laptop I change the name of this album to "2011 What's It All About" to help me find it among all my other albums by Metheny.

Now, if I put only one song from that album on my iPhone, it gets listed under the album name "What's It All About" -- ie, the "2011" is dropped. I think the reason for this is that Music.app recognizes that there are other songs in iCloud belonging to that album, and it uses THAT album title for the listing. (This is true even though I have "Show All Music" turned off in Settings>Music.).

If I then load ALL the songs from that album onto the iPhone from my laptop, the album title changes to "2011 What's It All About".

Since Picky is reading the album listings from Music.app, I get exactly the same behavior in Picky.

For comparison, I have an iPad mini which is still running iOS6 and does not have this bug... Even with only one song from that album on the iPad mini, the album title is "2011 What's It All About".

Hope Apple sorts this out soon.... This really makes me wonder what all that beta testing is for! Does anybody actually use the Music app when they are testing???

Hi. I have one particular album missing on my Music app (iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4) but it shows up in Audyssey! This album was ripped by me on my Mac (iTunes 11 in Lion). I manually manage music on my iPhone. The album is for sure checked to sync.

For testing I unchecked the songs in iTunes and synced to iPhone. Then checked songs and synced again and I could see in the status bar that the songs transferred to the iPhone. But, songs and Album are not in Music app!! But, Audyssey sees and can play this album!

Note: iTunes Match and Cloud are off on iTunes Mac and iPhone. All syncing is hard wired. My music library is too big, around 60 GB.

Note 2: album art for said album shows up in iTunes but not in Audyssey.

Any thoughts of how to get this album to show up in Music app? Thanks much.

Hi, just a follow up... My problem had to do with the "Compilation Album" option being checked! I unchecked it and now this mystery album shows up in the correct place with the other albums from the band.

I had a weird problem sort of related to that -

I would remove a Playlist in iTunes. So in Sync, I would expect that Playlist to be removed from the App in iPhone.

I go to the Music App in iPhone, and there - I still see the Playlist. But when I go to click on it - there is nothing inside. Just the playlist header is left there, like some residual title holder image.

So to get rid of that Playlist header, I plug it back into iTunes to Sync it again to see if it removes itself. Nope. Again, it's still there.

So I have to go actually ERASE the playlist header from inside the Music App in order for it go away. Which makes no sense, but there you go.

Hey there i had the same problem with the standard music app from Apple. Now i'm using amplifind this works great! In the beginning the app starts slowly but after a few minutes it's works fine.

Very well put. I pay over the odds for Apple products for the usability. This has now gone.

I can't fathom how this ever got released but Apple please please just give us the option of going back to IOS6 music player.

Everybody don't forget to give Apple feedback on this: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Totally agree with the OP. So much harder to find music. I just have to use the search function most of the time which isn't a good way to then play a full album or browse an artist.

Don't get me started on landscape mode either. I used to enjoy using coverflow when the mood took me. Even got a dock in my van that goes horizontal for that specific reason after the stupid old "accessory connected" screen when it was connected to my Alpine stereo was removed in an iOS 6.x update. The new view is better in many ways from a functionality point of view, except it doesn't go to the current playing album, and more the point, it lists alphabetically by ALBUM name, not ARTIST!!!! Since the beginning of recorded music record stores and record collectors sort their music alphabetically by Artist. Who on earth sorts by album name? Unless you're maybe 8 years old and have 12 albums? I might want to switch to another album by the same artist, but the next album by them might be literally over a thousand albums away in my collection, whilst the next album is totally unrelated! Since iOS 7 I've gone from a "quite often" to "absolutely never" user of landscape mode. *facepalm* 😢

I could use another app, but that won't support iTunes Match will it?

(yep, I've given feedback. Hoped this would be fixed in 7.1, but no. Gave feedback again today. The old saying "Apple loves music" seems to have died!)