The remaining albums that were not fixed (Missing album art) in Public Beta 6, are still not fixed in Public Beta 7.
Is anyone having trouble syncing their iTunes library to their phone via Finder? Ever since the update all my music was deleted from my phone and now every time I try to sync the import crashes.
The remaining albums that were not fixed (Missing album art) in Public Beta 6, are still not fixed in Public Beta 7.
This doesn't work for me. The music that is missing for me isn't available on iTunes or Apple Music and so it uses custom art.I am on Beta 8 and did a refresh by selecting an empty artwork - right click - and recovered the remaining missing art work - still missing a few - but they are mostly the same ones I have missing on Mojave / iTunes
Not sure this works for everyone - but I don't fell there is a difference between Mojave iTines and Catalina Music for art work after beta 8 - again IMHO
No real progress in B9. *sigh*
If they get rid of it I will be relentlessly upset. That is one of the most useful apps. I use it both professionally and personally; almost daily. It's the #1 reason I haven't installed the Catalina beta on any of my main computers and would be the only thing holding me back from updating when it's released if the feature is still not there by release date.Have we heard anything with respect to whether this is a bug or if they're deprecating the Remote app? That would be a real shame if so.
You can switch to dev beta with https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...lina-and-mojave-no-apple-id-required.2187881/Beta 10 is out but no Public yet. Maybe this will solve my Music issues.
Excellent thread! Thanks for the updates! I'm not using the beta, but I've been trying to keep track over whether the column browser is making a return. I'll have to stick around here and hope that one of you offers some good news soon. 😇 If it doesn't return then I will simply remain a Mojave user. 🤞
Forgive me if I'm not familiar with the Column Browser feature as it's described here, but in the latest B10 version of Music, when selecting "Songs" from the Library menu on the left, followed by "View - Show View Options" from the top menu, a list of columns to be displayed is shown. Another option allows the display of a "Filter Field" to quickly find songs by a particular artist, for example.
Imagine you had a large library and you wanted to filter first by genre and see all artists? Then, you filter by one artist to see all their albums, all without leaving the view you're currently in but just filtering it across multiple criteria. The current filter field cannot do that as easily.
Here's a look at how it looked like https://kirkville.com/in-praise-of-the-itunes-column-browser/
It was a wonderfully useful tool for people with huge libraries, many DJs for example always had it enabled. The fact that the search feature is totally disruptive now doesn't help either as it looses your place in the view and defaults to searching Apple Music instead.
This problem would be solved if Apple enables clicking on the artist name when in the 'genre' category (compared to 'recently added' category for example where it is possible). The Music app as of right now lacks the ability to click through your library for discovery (e.g. start in recently added, click artist, click genre, click arist2, click related artists...). There is just no flow and the bad Apple Music integration adds to the fact that you always hit a wall at some point. Spotify does this way better. Column browsers, however, are a thing of the 90s and I am glad they're gone.
I do not, however, agree that the column browser isn't a thing of the past. It's a brilliant simple way to filter thousands of rows by multiple criteria. As long as there's no alternative, and filter field isn't a real alternative
The column browser was useful but clunky, and limited. Each column in the Songs listing should support a filter field in its header. That has proven to be a great way of progressively narrowing down searches in large datasets in many different applications.