iOS 7 Music App sorting issues

I updated to IOS 7.0.3 and it is not fixed. THIS MUST be fixed. We cannot listen to album in the order that was intended by the artist. And in many albums, it is very disturbing to listen in random order.... because the original order is part of the creation .... and, honestly, it is disrespecful of the artist.... do Apple still really respeect artists?

I have just filled in another feedback form for Apple regarding this.

iTunes on the Mac is still OK and it should be as good on the iPad. It has all that screen real estate with the retina display yet all we have for sorting through music on it is poxy lists! And some of those are not in the correct order!*

Apple is famous for popularising the graphical user interface, yet with this version of the Music player/app in iOS7 it looks as if someone forgot about the front end this time around.

Still haven't played music using the app. Its too awful.

*I don't want to have to RESET ALL to get music that was in the correct order in the corect order now.

Its making me think its time to look elsewhere for my music player (and therefore phone).

I find it hard to belive that a multibillion$ company has done this in error, they had their reasons (nudging users towards playlistsI guess). In which case to me it means they have simply decided not to cater to music fans, but to put their own interests first.

Meanwhile I am using the alternative free apps. Apple need to look over their shoulder there is no room for them to take backwards steps like this , their competition is hotting up.

PFox78, I couldn't agree more with every concern you and the others have had about the new music player and it's poor functionality. I purchased the Iphone because I intended to use it as an Ipod. Ironically Pearl Jam is the artist I struggle with most as I have 48 albums that I regularly peruse and now have to sift through in order to find the one I want at that moment. Another feature they removed is turning the player on while your phone is locked. If you close the player and lock the phone you can no longer do that. It will work if the music player wasn't closed and the phone is locked. I have had to unlock my phone, open the player and select an album while driving many times. The previous OS allowed me to double tap the home button and hit play. Again it only works if you don't close the music player app. I formally stated my concerns today with apple and appreciate how you politely and articulately voiced yours. Hopefully Apple will "hear the sirens"

I agree with all of this. Apple reinvented the wheel. Unfortunately now... iOS 7 Music app has octogon wheels. Why? You had such a nice user interface. Please add back in the album selection window Please get rid of the large album artwork while in any list view. It looks rediculous for people that do not download full albums. I have about 7,500 songs in my library and many of them are singles.

While driving a car, it is unusable at all if there are more than two albums by an artist...

I have to agree too. The only good thing about the music app now is the radio (limited but still ok).

Does anyone know if there is any way possible to turn off the cover flow when you turn your iTouch (or I assume iPhone) on its side? I want to watch videos through my playlists because that way they play back to back without me having to tell it to do so. Going through the videos part just plays them one at a time, which doesn't make any sense either. But the videos are all in this little box instead of the full screen because of that silly cover flow. I'm sure that thing is great if you have like 10 albums but some of us have quite a few more than that and it's just annoying and difficult to navigate.

I will email Apple as well and express just how annoying this has become. I can't believe no one on their software team thought 'this won't work'. I guess they don't listen to much music!

Bravo on the new update to Picky!

It has now overtaken Ecoute as my preferred alternative to the car crash of the default ios7 music app.

Well done. Now a really serious contender.

(If only you could now change that horrid icon ... )

Oh yes I hear you! The Music App is horrendous!!! It seems to me that it is an opportunity for Apple to get you to "complete my album" as any tracks that I dont have are also listed - they are just not hightlighted. If I had OCD I'd be in that ITunes store completing all my albums pronto!

No Likey Apple.

Hey, if you're annoying about ios7 sorting your albums chronically instead of alphabetically, I've found a trick to cheat it.

JUST CHANGE ALL OF YOUR SONG'S YEAR INTO THE SAME NUMBER, SAY "1".

Since the year of all songs are the same now, ios7 will sort the albums in alphabetical order, whatever you intend to.

It works!

That doesn't solve the problem and if you have 50,000 albums of music, that doesn't solve the problem at all

LOL. That'll sit real well with everyone bothered by the Music app changes, people who specifically care about albums and presumably things that define them like release date. I would never do this, because it would mess things up in iTunes as well, and sorting by release year is the least of the Music app problems anyway. The bigger problem is that there is no way to collapse the hybrid album/songs view into just albums, and what you're suggesting doesn't help with the endless scrolling you have to do to navigate it. It also doesn't help with the Music app no longer respecting album boundaries after entering an album from Artists.

This actually reminds me of another deficiency, the inability to correctly order albums that were released the same year unless they happen to be in alphabetical order as well. You can play games with sort fields, but it tends to cause problems in other views.

Or you can just delete the year data under "Get Info"

I was thinking of doing this before I found the Picky App.

The Picky App has saved my OCD from spiraling out of control;)

OK. Have updated to 7.0.3 and now, at last, tracks are in the correct order. I'm still a bit miffed that there isn't a grid view for artsist or albums on iPad but I feel a bit better about it all... Apple do seem to be addressing some of the problems bit by bit.

Track order has never been a problem with iOS 7 for me on any of my devices. I suspect that you had a corrupt installation, so just installing a new iOS is what fixed your problem. You likely could have gotten the track order fixed simply by restoring withe the version you were using before.