iTunes search limited to 100 items?

This is so incredibly annoying. I just keep thinking that I am doing something wrong. Why the heck would Apple want to stop audiophiles from browsing? I know that I have not purchased songs I was looking for beyond the top 100. What kind of search engine does this in 2015? And, you are correct...it never used to work this way.

This limitation has made the iTunes store completely useless for me. If I can't remember the name of a song by an artist who has more than 5 or 6 albums, chances are I'm not going to find it in the list if it happens to start with some letter in the middle of the alphabet. This is beyond ridiculous. Whoever made the decision should be prosecuted, and maybe shot, not just fired.

Not sure what you are talking about. For example, for Lil Wayne I get 827 songs:

Happy it works for you. I have the 100 limitation too. Though on rare occasions the list is longer. Almost always it is limited to 100. I have not gotten any recommendations on a fix (except a power search kind of web page). This is incredibly frustrating.

Dan,

Results from the Search oval only return 100. However, if you want to see all the songs by a particular artist, click the artist's name, and then See All.

For example, for Above & Beyond, it returns 471 songs:

Thanks, Ed. This really helped, and I never would have figured it out myself. An extra step, which I must have done inadvertently in the past during some searches. Indeed, if I search for an artist name, and then click "see all" in the song menu, it limits the search to 100 songs. However, if I click on the artist name, in the song list, for example, and then click "see all" in the song menu of the new window that opens, it lists all the songs available. Strange glitch perhaps, but delighted to now know how to navigate through it. You have removed a source of ongoing frustration. Thank you.

DanG77 wrote:

Thanks, Ed. This really helped, and I never would have figured it out myself. An extra step, which I must have done inadvertently in the past during some searches. Indeed, if I search for an artist name, and then click "see all" in the song menu, it limits the search to 100 songs. However, if I click on the artist name, in the song list, for example, and then click "see all" in the song menu of the new window that opens, it lists all the songs available. Strange glitch perhaps, but delighted to now know how to navigate through it. You have removed a source of ongoing frustration. Thank you.

Dan,

Glad it helped! Enjoy the music.

Ed

Choosing "Artist" and then "Show All" only helps when you know who the artist is. I'm into folk music, and those songs are covered by a lots of artists. When I'm searching for more versions of a song, all I have is the title, and often the words of the title appear in the titles of other songs, so the results can be quite long. If iTunes can return 400+ songs for a particular Artist, then it can just as easily do it for a straight keyword search. Anything less is stupid. OK, return 100 and then include a link for "next 100 songs" or something like that.

My list of frustrations with Apple software is getting longer every day, and an awful lot of them are in iTunes.

OK, return 100 and then include a link for "next 100 songs" or something like that.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

What do you mean 'click the artists name'? Click it where?!

esoxlucieus wrote:

What do you mean 'click the artists name'? Click it where?!

In the Artist column of any of their songs. For example:

And you will get the whole list of songs by that Artist, which exceeds 100:

Hey,

Thanks for this, i got the search to show all songs after clicking the artist name. But i'm still getting the 100 limit issue when trying to search the song name when i don't know the artist, so i can't click the artist name for the search fix.

Any ideas?

cheers

keatho wrote:

Hey,

Thanks for this, i got the search to show all songs after clicking the artist name. But i'm still getting the 100 limit issue when trying to search the song name when i don't know the artist, so i can't click the artist name for the search fix.

Any ideas?

cheers

Keatho,

The procedure described above only works on the Artist. You can try your search in other online music stores that do not have the 100 limit. For example, at Amazon Digital Music, a search on "Listen To Your Heart" returned over 1000 songs:

But this is ridiculous. I went to Apple Store and asked several workers how to get more than 100 songs. They were all stumped. Why does Apple do it this way? Driving me further away from them.