Q: Changes in music for iOS 10
I got a couple of questions regarding the music app in iOS 10 ... I'm guessing the answers might be "thats just the way it is now", which, if it is, that ***** But hey maybe there are ways around these things.
Firstly, when playing something on shuffle, whether it be an album, an artist, a playlist or even the entire library - is there a way to make sure it cycles through ALL the songs available? I noticed this with iOS 9, but it seems even worse now. Say I have a playlist of 40 songs and I put it on random shuffle, it might only decide to include 29 songs and it'll cycle through them and then start at the beginning of that loop again and completely miss maybe 11 songs. Same with on albums or entire libraries .. it really bugs me because you're missing out on tracks and it never used to do this. Is there a way around it or is this just some kind of flawed algorithm being used now?
Secondly, when it comes to hiding songs on your iphone that you have purchased but are not on your phone, is there a more effective way than simply now having to go to the "downloaded music" tab? That seems to be the new way to filter out music which is not on your phone, still annoying.
Lastly, and this one really annoys me, now when you click on "songs" on the app, rather than displaying your library in alphabetical order by song title, it displays alphabetical order by artists first, and then within that it is alphabetical by song. Is there a way to change it back to just giving you your entire library sorted purely alphabetically by song? If I wanted to sort by artist, I'd, you know, go to the artists tab...
Hope someone has found some way around some of these things!
iPhone 6, iOS 10
Posted on Sep 21, 2016 10:25 AM