HT204842: Refine the suggestions in Apple Music on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC

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jonnythefist

Q: Can you add a specific artist to For You?

After clicking through the More Artists, I don't ever see many of the bands I would like to add.  It would be nice if there was an option to manually add specific bands. 

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Jan 29, 2016 8:11 AM

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Q: Can you add a specific artist to For You?

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  • by ryanofnod,Helpful

    ryanofnod ryanofnod Jan 29, 2016 12:26 PM in response to jonnythefist
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    Jan 29, 2016 12:26 PM in response to jonnythefist

    Short Answer: Not that I have ever found.

     

    Best suggestion:

    Right now "For You" doesn't work as well as I would like it. I have suggestions from genres that I completely removed on initial setup, and I get too many artist suggestions for bands whose tracks I have repeatedly told them I don't like, and sometimes I'll love a every song on a band's album in hopes of getting related suggestions, but it rarely works. For me "For You" is good about 75% of the time. I've left a bug report in feedback (here is the link if you would like to leave one as well http://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html ) or in your case you might want to make it a feature suggestion.

     

    Things I do to get around it. Search for a band. The results page will give you "Top Results", "Albums", "Songs", "Playlists", and a some other stuff. I click the word playlists and see all the associated playlists with the band I like. Many are multiple artist playlists. You can add those playlists to your account by opening the playlist and clicking the + icon at the top right.

     

    You can also go to the Artists page and find "Similar Artists" listed on the side, and do a search on them to find playlists.

  • by jonnythefist,

    jonnythefist jonnythefist Jan 29, 2016 12:29 PM in response to ryanofnod
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    Jan 29, 2016 12:29 PM in response to ryanofnod

    Thanks.  I have been using the Similar Artists, but have not had much success finding anyone with a playlist.

    The other thing that would be nice is if you click on the "I don't like this" option it would immediately disappear.

     

    I'll try the link to offer suggestions for future release.

  • by ryanofnod,Solvedanswer

    ryanofnod ryanofnod Jan 29, 2016 12:45 PM in response to jonnythefist
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    Jan 29, 2016 12:45 PM in response to jonnythefist

    You're welcome.

     

    I think I suggested that "I don't like this" should auto remove in a feature request I suggested for blacklisting artists, but I can't be for sure, so I just submitted a new feature improvement ticket just for "I don't like this auto removal."