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Apple Music Rolling Out Update With ‘Coming Soon’ Section

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  1. Melody Bot Jun 8, 2018
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    Mitchel Broussard, writing at MacRumors:


    Apple appears to be rolling out a series of updates for Apple Music today, including a small but useful new section called “Coming Soon,” which allows subscribers to check out new albums about to be released over the next few weeks. […] In another addition, Apple is now making it possible to easily see album launch dates on their respective pages on iOS and macOS. In the Editors’ Notes section, following the traditional encouragement to add the pre-release album to your library, there’s a new line that begins “Album expected…” followed by the album’s specific release date.
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    Some nice updates, but really what I want is one feed/section that simply gives me a chronological listing of newly released albums from people already in my collection. Friday morning I should be able to look one place and see all the new albums from people Apple Music already knows I like and listen to. I’m cool with a smaller scattering of recommendations for new music I may like under that main list as well, but finding the newly released albums from artists I already love should be easy. Half the time I’ll forget I pre-added an album that’s out today and this kind of reminder would be great. Hell, so many of my friends don’t even know their favorite band released new music over the past five years. This is a solvable problem.

    UPDATE: I was just looking around in the new Apple Music, and I don’t know if this is new or not, but if you go to the “For You” section and scroll to the very bottom, there’s a “New Releases” section. Clicking “See All” seems pretty close to what I’m talking about. However, it’s definitely missing things from artists in my collection with new albums. For example, that Lykke Li album released today isn’t in my listing even though all of her albums are in my library.

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  2. atlastitsok Jun 8, 2018
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    I loved that feature about Rdio - someday Apple will get it I hope
     
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  3. copey Jun 8, 2018
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    This has been there since the iOS 10 update to AM.

    Unfortunately it's not very comprehensive and completely ignores singles.
     
  4. memoir_of_the_hawk Jun 8, 2018
    memoir_of_the_hawk

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    Yes, yes, a thousand times this. I've tried so many other services—Record Bird, Swarm.fm, Last.fm—and it's unbelievable that I can't get a list of new releases from artists in my collection. I wish Apple could figure this out. It's something that Rdio had years ago.
     
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  6. copey Jun 8, 2018
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    AM also doesn't do a very good job of putting new songs into the New Music Mix on Friday's - that is treated more like Spotify's Discover Weekly. RecordBird is the best way to get a comprehensive list of new albums/songs. It's unfortunate that not one single streaming service handles this well, since Rdio's demise. Makes no sense at all.
     
  7. Max_123 Jun 8, 2018
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    It's truly mind boggling at how bad both Apple Music and Spotify are notifying their subscribers of new music from artists they already follow
     
  8. buckcheeks Jun 8, 2018
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    As Jason pointed out in the edited part of this posting, go to “For You” and scroll to the bottom. There’s a section called “New Releases” that is pretty close to being what you want. It’s new releases from artists you have listened to. It’s been there since iOS 10, but it’s somewhat hidden.
     
  9. Jason Tate Jun 8, 2018
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    It also doesn't really work. It's missing all kinds of things I have in my library, doesn't point out new singles, and is pretty bare bones right now. it's on the right path, but it really could be fixed to be 90% of what I'd want it to be with just a little massaging.
     
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  10. Kennedy Jun 11, 2018
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    i just want to be able to view my albums by year in the app
     
  11. cwhit Jun 11, 2018
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    still emperor emo Prestigious

    smart playlists

    it's only by songs but that's what i do
     
  12. Kennedy Jun 11, 2018
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    I need by albums! Someone email Apple and complain for me
     
  13. Jason Tate Jun 11, 2018
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    Smart playlist:

    [​IMG]
    Then: View > View As > Albums

    or command+J and:

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  15. cwhit Jun 11, 2018
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    he wants it on the app though
     
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  16. Jason Tate Jun 11, 2018
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    iTunes is an app. And smart playlists work in the iOS apps too.
     
  17. cwhit Jun 11, 2018
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    i'm pretty sure he wants to be able to view by year in an album view instead of just a list of songs on his phone
     
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  18. Kennedy Jun 11, 2018
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    I mean on my iPhone
     
  19. Kennedy Jun 11, 2018
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    Yes
     
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  20. Jason Tate Jun 11, 2018
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    Add the year as "sort as" for the album via iTunes, and it'll do that.
     
  21. Kennedy Jun 11, 2018
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    im lazy and i want an algorithm to do all that work for me haha
     
  22. reachingfor Jun 11, 2018
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    This is great, thanks Jason! I’ve been wanting to view it like this for awhile now.
     
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