How can I play all the songs in one genre in iOS7's music app?

hi there,

im also from toronto. i have to get ahold of theses idiots that are making bigggg bucks doing these retarted updates. i have the i pod touch 64 gigs and i also have the i pod classic 160 gig nothing changed in the classic. do you know who i contact about this they have to set it back to the way it was its supposed to be easier no more complicated.

thanx for the info

ttyl

Apple should revert back that functionality. I don't understand why they took it away! So frustating to search for the genre whenever I want to play one genre 😐

Where do we can request this functionality or anyother for iOS 7???

Apple broke this big time.

For starters, if you browse by Genre you get only a list of artists who have any music in the genre. But you get ALL their albums

You can't view by album like before.

And if you select the genre in a search box then you still get all songs by any artist who has at least 1 track in the requested genre.

BROKEN BADLY. :-(

Thank You. I had organized my entire library based on Genres and was getting a bit frustrated with IOS7 ..... atleast now i know there is a way out , however cumbersome it is ..... cannot understand how they could erase the easiest way and substitute with complex and ridiculous updates ..... guess it boils down to proper quality check and someone in Apple is no longer interested in quality .... Just my 2 cents.

ℹAnother quick fix: ask Siri to play/shuffle the genre, such as "Shuffle my holiday genre, please." Then you can go into Now Playing to skip songs, repay, etc. Glad I'm not the only one who liked to play by genre and doesn't like this change.

iTunes has been going downhill for a year or more - functionality is gone, but at least it looks cool! My sister summed up the iOS 7 problem best: With the first iPhones, you could start them up and pretty much figure out functions on your own. It was that easy, and I liked that. Now it seems like you need a computer science degree to operate them. I'm all for reading the manual, but come on! It seems like everyday I'm going on the Web to find a solution to some problem - and I have a Bachelor's in IT! When someone with a computer degree has problems operating your OS, you have problems with your OS!

I am having the same problem, except now when i go through the roundabout way to do play the genre, it still won't. i hit shuffle and it won't play anything. the same thing happened when i created a playlist. i hit shuffle and it freaked out and just stopped doing everything. would it make a difference that i am running ios7 on an iphone 4?

Great Catch thanks,

I ended up solving the problem very easely: Stop using my iPod Touch 5th Gen for listening music and now I use my Galaxy S4 and I can choose which player to use... PowerAmp and Apollo are graet. Much better than the built in app in iOS 7. I used to love my iPod touch. I used to use it for not draining my cellphone battery and because it has a very good DAC/Amp. But since my S4 i9500 (international variant with Wolfson's DAC) plays FLAC audio flawlessly, I now can ditch the iOS 7 crap. I barely use it anymore. Too bad that we can downgrade to iOS 6 though ¬¬

I was starting to think on switching and give Apple a try with an iPhone & iPad, but since all the iOS 7 crap, I'll stick with Android and the ability to choose what do I want to do with the device I payed for... Sorry Apple, you've lost another customer.

When are they going to fix this? They need to allow easy playing by genre. Workarounds are just another word for bad UI.

SOLUTION: I had the same prob, but I accidentally figured it out! To play songs by genre, click on 'Genre' so that the list comes up. The each item on the list should have an icon on the left. If you click on that icon, all the songs in the genre will play!

WOW it's like a miracle! Thank you NiseePooh for pointing that out. Better worded basically once you're in the genre menu where all the genres are listed tap the photo/image for the specific genre you want to listen to and there you have it. I just wished Apple made it a little more clear.

Thanks! That Helped!

Thank you! This also works for Artists if you want to listen to all the works of a particular artist without the jumping shuffle nonsense or having to select the next album each time (pretty handy if you like to listen to music like this while driving and don't fancy wrecking the car). Only kicker is it looks like you can't start from anywhere but the first song on the first album.

Let me go on record to say that the brainiac who decided to discontinue the iPod Classic deserves to spend the rest of their life with wet socks. I miss it already and mine hasn't even finished dying yet.

Yes, at least iOS 8.4 largely repaired the damage to the UI allowing for things like genre play, and browsing by album, to be possible. The actual implementation is a bit opaque but at least it works now.

Sadly, I think conceptually it was so much more obvious and flexible back before iOS 7 broke a very intuitive interface.

Hi all, just thought I would let you know- since my update I have had trouble until today. If you want to play a genre - go to your genre but don't select it- hit the picture next to the name and it will start to shuffle the genre. Hope it works for you