I cannot get the similar artists links on an artists page to work on either my iPhone 6 or iPad Air 2. I will search for an artist, go to the resulting artist page, scroll to similar artists, and tap on the. Nothing happens. Well, not exactly nothing, on the iPad that crashes the app. Does this work for other people?
I Have same problem, hopefully bugs will get fixed soon.
Thanks for confirming that it's not just me. Now, off to the bug report form...
I don't even have similar artists appearing on artist pages. 😕
Here’s how to find it on iPad… search for an artist and tap the entry for their artist page; tap the “About” link; scroll down on the “About” side of the page to find Similar Artists. Tap any of the Similar Artists and the app stops responding only to crash several seconds later.
I can’t seem to find the same thing on the iPhone today, though I’d swear it was there yesterday. I can’t even get the “About” info for the artist on the iPhone today.
I just tried the same thing in iTunes to see what would happen. In iTunes 12.2 (on OS X 10.10.4) the "About" section is titled "Biography." Below Biography are areas for "Similar Artists" and "Influencers." Both areas have clickable links to the artists that are listed; although you wouldn't know it from the UI. Hover over the area and the pointer does not turn into a hand, nor do the names get underlined as happens elsewhere in iTunes for clickable areas. The more I use this, the more it looks like the whole thing was rushed and unfinished.
I Wish the similar artists links were working too! To get to them on iPhone go to the artist page and tap on the artists name. This doesn't have any visual cue either. Neither is there a Spotify-like radio option to shuffle some of the best matching similar artists. Which is a great and simple way to discover more music with similarities to something you love.
The curated stuff on the For You tab is quite well suggested but it only offers dead obvious artists that I have already listened to before. It suits the mainstream-orientated launch of Music I suppose but I hope music discovery gets better for people like me who want to dig in a certain genre or subgenre for a while.
Summing up I agree it's kind of a mess and probably not for me.
Similar artist links working?
