The album playlist shows every album of those songs included in my library. But 99.9% of them are incomplete / contain one song.
I’d like a list of albums that are complete. Sometimes I’d just like to listen to an entire album as I did 25y ago with CDs.
How do you achieve this without creating a playlist for every such album?
Yes, what you want is 2 clicks away (or taps).
When you select a song I. Your library, you are given the option to see it in Apple Music. Select Go to Album. It will take you to the album, but only list the songs you have added.
From there, there’s a link at the bottom of the song list Show Complete Album. Select that and you’ll be taken to the full album. Hit the giant play button at the top and it’ll start from track 1 and right through.
You can also search for the artist/album manually and simply play the entire album in the same way.
Thank you but this is simply selecting an album of an artist that might have struck my mind. What I am seeking is the possibility to scan through a list of my favourite albums and choose one that fits my mood.
I don’t believe there’s a way to do that. Making a playlist and putting it in album view does seem like the obvious way.
The way I was doing it is to disable the setting that automatically ads songs to your library. That way I added songs I like to playlists and only added full albums to the library. But now they just made a change that replaces the “love” button with a “favorite” button which will add that song to your library automatically. Basically it’s gonna be a pain in the ass to manage albums in Apple Music in any meaningful way. I hope they fix this somehow.
They made a design choice, I think if you’re hoping for a reversal, it’ll be like 4 years at the earliest.
Yeah, that’s how it goes with Apple. I’m gonna install Foobar2000 and have my favourite albums in there, and let the new Apple Music be the messy collection of one-offs and new songs I discover.
Perhaps you could keep a separate library for your complete albums?
I used to do something similar when I wanted to separate my lossless music from the rest.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/music/mus7663a920a/mac
Oh nice I had no idea you could do that. Would be nice if that worked on iOS.
Thank you for that hint. But it’s not possible or supported on iOS I guess?
Sorry, macOS only. I wasn’t sure which platform you were talking about in the post and kinda assumed you were talking about macOS.
No problem, thanks for your reply :)
Thinking through with Shortcuts, I wonder if you could create a dictionary that has the highest track number for each album, and then iterate through again and see how many songs you have for each album, and see if they match
Are you sure you are not looking at downloaded albums? Can you give an example of an album with a missing song?
Is there’s list of only and only those albums I downloaded somewhere?
Library / Downloaded will open up another list with playlists, albums, artists and so on, displaying only what’s on your device locally.
When you add an individual song or a playlist to your library it will not add the whole album to your library.
If you’d like to add an entire album to your library then you have to manually add the album to your library.
The quickest way to do that if you’ve got a song selected is to select the song in the player view, open up the menu and go to album. Once on the album page you can add it to your library.
Or if you search for the song in the search page, you can long press an individual song or open the submenu and go to album where you can then add the whole album to your library.
Yes, all true and features I know about. But where do I see a list of ONLY those albums I entirely added to my library? The existent album playlist lists all albums of all artists from whom I added maybe one or two songs to my library. So those albums only include those tracks.
Maybe you can hack something together with AppleScript or Shortcuts to create that playlist of albums for you.
