Missing features in the new music app "update"

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kpjames5 wrote:

. Tell me where to post something that Apple WILL read as that is where they need to know this sort of thing.

You were already given that information:

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To answer some of your queries - there are several places where you can skip back and forth between tracks.

You can pull up the control centre from anywhere on the phone and do that, just as you could before. You can also do it in the lock screen, just as you could before. I guess they decided it was redundant within the music app itself, given all these other features they've put in.

The "Now Playing" option is contained within the thumbnail of the album cover at the top of the page, and also in the strip at the bottom (see the Pause and Play buttons?). They both seem to pick up where you left off.

To get the Artist/Album view as you want it, go to Settings-Music-Sort Albums- By Title. That will give you an alpha list by Title when you select the Albums view.

Personally, while it all takes getting used to, I reckon there's a lot more than there used to be. Not least three months' free access to every bit of music in the store!

"Only when I go to settings does it change."

Well....yes....but you only have to do that once. We're being given the option. I quite like the alternative of seeing each album listed independently but with the artists still listed alphabetically - artist names register better with me, especially with "Greatest Hits" albums which get given all sorts of titles I can never remember.

I almost never skipped tracks within the Music app - not when I can do it from anywhere just be pulling up the Control Centre.

Couple of things:

1. Cannot create a Station of a SIngle artist to stream OR download for offline. In Slacker I can do that.

2. When you pick a song from Apple Music and want to add it to a NEW playlist, there is not a "+New" option. You have to first create the playlist and then add the song. In Slacker, when you want to put a song in a Playlist that does not exist, there is an option at the Top of the list to "Add New Playlist".

3. When I pick a Genre Station, I cannot create a Download version of that Genre Station for offline listening. In Slacker, it creates a download of of that Station Playlist for offline.

4. In Apple Music, there is no designation of which playlists are available offline. You have to select "only show offline", which when you do that, you do not see what you are missing.