new playlists no longer auto populate with artist/album/artwork from selected songs?

Question

Level 3

941 points

new playlists no longer auto populate with artist/album/artwork from selected songs?

Working with an older version of Music (as with all versions of iTunes), I can select all the songs in an album, click on Shift+Command+N, and it automatically produces a new playlist, all nicely populated with the Artist, Album name and artwork. Press Enter and voila! New playlist made from the album. Similar actions when compiling a list of selected songs from various albums etc. Then, to change or edit the Playlist artwork, you can Copy & Paste that artwork from the song Info and paste into the Info of the Playlist. In my newer version of Music, it appears the OS lunatic has sabotaged all that functionality and replaced it with an alomst impossible task of doing anything with that Playlist that doesn't take less than an hour to achieve, but mostly not at all - replacing the artwork editing process with a few optional, 1960s images to choose from...

Anyone like to shed any light on what I'm missing here? Is it a bug? Or I am missing a combination of moves to get to the functionality I'm trying to achieve, that WAS easy, straightforward and...just worked?

Sonoma 14.2.1 Music 1.4.2

MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

Posted on Nov 1, 2024 2:03 AM

Reply

Answer 1

ChrisRR Author

Level 3

941 points

Nov 4, 2024 12:03 AM in response to ChrisRR

Yikes! "There are no replies". First time this has happened in my life on Apple Discussions. Since I posted, I've done a lot of research into the Music app and its 'progression', and I have realised that Apple have almost denuded the functionality and user interface of Music - purposely. It is another example of the firm's inexplicable trend to do this. Completely at odds with the original culture that attracted me away from Windows World to Apple Universe.

My plan is to rebuild my music setup by using Macs that are still capable of running the latest versions of iTunes, so that I can have a system that does what I want it to do, efficiently and effectively. Which is counter to my enthusiasm to be bang up to date with tech. If anyone has any suggestions in terms of which version/s of Music still have the old method of creating self-populating Playlists I'd be grateful.

I'll wait for the "please use the feedback...". Nah!

Reply