Apple Music Why is working with playlists in Apple Music on a Mac such a pain?

[m4a]

I wanted to give Apple Music a shot, but so far it has been an abysmal experience. Please help me navigate through this pain.

1. How do you add all of the artists music to a playlist? Drag and drop from the artists view does not work. Selecting all of the songs and right-clicking to add to a playlist only ads just one song. The only way so far that sort of works is adding an album to a library and then dragging and dropping that album to a playlist. One album at a time.
2. How do you find playlists in Apple Music made by anyone other than Apple? Search results bring up only Apple curated playlists. Is there no such thing at all on Apple Music?
3. I created a smart playlist for Loved songs, but it works with some songs but not others. I can not figure out why that is. I tried creating a new smart playlist, but most of the loved songs would not show up. Adding a song to the library does not help solve the issue.

 

[SnakeHaveYou]

Hello, I suppose you are referring to iTunes or Music app on Windows/macOS

1- If you are referring to the "Library" interface, you can filter songs by artist to add them to a playlist by going to "Songs", that's what I do and it works.
If you are referring to the "Apple Music" interface, i don't think is possible to add "All of the artist music" to a playlist, because some songs are repeated, some songs listed are repeated because those are from compilation albums, it would be a mess. But you can add full albums to your library right from the main artists page, with the 3 dots icon, and then go to your Library interface to add those songs.

2- The shared playlists should appear at the bottom of the Apple Music interface when you shearch for them, but as you said those shared playlist aren't there, it only shows profiles. It must be a bug of macOS Music app, I'm using my MacBook now, because I can find the shared playlists on the iPhone Music app

3- I only use Smart Playlists to see the latests songs I added, so I can't help you with that, but maybe it's the song limit in the Smart Playlist wizard

 

[m4a]

I only use Smart Playlists to see the latests songs I added, so I can't help you with that, but maybe it's the song limit in the Smart Playlist wizard

Since I just started using Music app on my mac, only 1 out of 4 songs that I marked as "Loved", shows up on the playlist. It must be a bug as well.

But you can add full albums to your library right from the main artists page, with the 3 dots icon, and then go to your Library interface to add those songs.

Yea, I found this as a solution, but it just makes no sense why you can drag and drop songs from Library and not from the artist's view in Apple Music section.

2- The shared playlists should appear at the bottom of the Apple Music interface when you shearch for them, but as you said those shared playlist aren't there, it only shows profiles. It must be a bug of macOS Music app, I'm using my MacBook now, because I can find the shared playlists on the iPhone Music app

I am not sure it is a bug, maybe some issue with my account? I am not seeing non-Apple playlists on any of my devices.

To be honest, Apple Music has been the worst experience with any Apple product that I have ever used.

 

[mrgreeneyes]

I cant even get any playlists to sync from my Mac to my iPhone.

 

[Lee Eel]

I cant even get any playlists to sync from my Mac to my iPhone.

Me neither. There have been a few other recent posts in here saying the same thing

 

[pup]

Same. It's completely broken.

 

[AL2TEACH]

It may take some time because

Apple is rebuilding Apple Music as a native app on the Mac

Code found within the macOS Monterey 12.2 beta has revealed that Apple is rebuilding the Apple Music app as a native macOS app.

www.imore.com