How can I play all songs from one artist?

I do not want to create a playlist. That is a waste of my time. Why is this difficult for so many to understand? I just want the simple functionality that I had 2 weeks ago before the completely negative "upgrade. It used to let me simply see all of the songs by a single artist on one screen with just one click. Then, it let me just start playing anywhere in that list- two clicks, no playlist, no having to plan what I wanted to listen to. The music is already convieniently in the order that I want, it's organized by albums. I just can't view all of the songs anymore and decide where in the list I want to start playing. They removed more functionality then was added. The require you to build a playlist in place of functions that used to just exist. does anyone know if a 3rd party app that works more sensibly with your iTunes files?

Sadly it is almost as if ex-Microsoft staff were designed to make this product less useful!

I totally agree with andreaminny on this. I was so ****** off after the update. I want it back to how it was. This current update made it more complicated than it needs to be. This is why I hate doing updates now. If the s*it ain't broke, DON'T FIX IT!

It's actually worse than described here.

If we select Artist as the top sort, then the next level is Album, and then finally Song. There is no way to see a sort of Artist and then Song.

And now it gets even worse, The "Artist" being used for the sort seems to be the ALBUM ARTIST, not a song artist. Soooo -- all of my thousands of songs that appear on albums where the Album Artist is "Various Artists" do not show up at all when we start a sort with "Artist". If I have 50 Beatles songs on albums by "Various Artists", the Apple software will never find them!

This is an inexcusable implementation of a very basic database. How could Apple have messed it up so badly?

Or am I missing something?

J.

Please let us know if you find a 3rd party app that brings the old functionality back. Music is simply unusable. My wife hates it. She gets so frustrated because it used to be simple and she gets angry and causes arguments! And I can't even help her! It really is a terrible "upgrade". 😟

I completely agree. The ease of use of the music app was always the deciding factor for me when choosing between android and iPhone. If this doesn't get fixed ASAP I'm switching to android. The new muic app is a nightmare.

Try "Beat".

It's not perfect, but it beats the **** out of the standard app.

Brilliant! "Beat" works an absolutely treat.

Very easy to use. Plays music.

Wow... Didn't think it was that complex, Apple... But apparently I have to use an App for that. :/

Trying to be constructive here, rather than just joining in a rant. I tried Apple Music when it first came out, but the minimalist interface seems limited and strangely unintuitive so and I switched back to Spotify, which is crazy easy to use and completely intuitive. However, I dislike the Sonos interface even more than Apple Music, (maybe all of this is just me, but I doubt it), so when Sonos announced their Apple Music beta, I was all over it and switched back to Apple Music just for this reason. However, Apple Music's inability to play for hours without having do anything (create playlists) is very annoying and might cause me to leave Apple Music-Sonos and go back to an inferior sounding, but much easier Spotify-BlueTooth system. Why can't I click on an artist and hit PLAY ALL, either in regular or shuffle mode? Apple, come on, this can't be this hard. BTW, I'm a busy middle-aged guy (enterprise SaaS consultant BTW) looking for nice background music as I put in long work hours. EFFORT IN PLAYING MUSIC DOESN'T WORK FOR ME, and probably millions of others.

I'm not a technician!. I'm just an old man who wants to play music!! Not a tech-know-wiz!

I agree. - EFFORT IN PLAYING MUSIC DOESN'T WORK FOR ME, either.

Thank you for this but one wonders: how the **** was I supposed to ever figure this out? Apple used to be all about usability now it's all about confusion.

Concurred. Rdio did this so well... (RIP ). Unfortunately (and fortunately for Apple) Spotify is even worse. Come on Apple, step up while you can!

Amazing that I have to swap to another app - HOW HARD could it be to show all songs for an artist. Obviously not hard since they had it before Apple Music and now took it away.

And BEAT was the solution and it was free - not even in-app purchases or anything.

Apple, if you are paying attention, let me join the choir here.

Adding my voice to the chorus as well. It is absurd that I can't listen to all the song by artist straight through. Boo Apple, and your constant "improvements." Just give it a rest sometimes would ya? I know your stock is down and you're trying to stay innovative, but convoluting your legacy apps ain't the way to do it.