Unified Apple Music History!!!
Last night I asked my bedroom HomePod to play music, and in a rare feat it played a fantastic set of songs as we relaxed in the evening. However looking back to grab those songs to create a custom playlist is not an option, it's impossible to even go back to see what was played at all.
We have Apple devices everywhere and use music on all of them, phones, iPads, HomePods, computer etc. Why is there no unified play history!?!? The only accessible one is the recently played in the MiniPlayer which is device only, and even then it's hit or miss if anything is on there at all. On my HomePod through the Home app is completely cleared.
I know Apple has a complete history of everything played ever, with a time stamp. They use it to curate the smart playlists and the replay areas - that's appreciated but I most likely know the songs I have already heard 100 times before. I want to look back to the one song that was really great, but didn't have time to like and curate into a playlist at that time.
So as of today the only way to figure this out is to request a download of all my data and wait a week for it to compile, then wade through the archaic logs to find a song that I then have to manually search for back in the app. I know there is an easier way....
...and it called Unified Apple Music History!!! Just have a spot in the Library called History, and it simply accesses the history of all devices from my account, maybe an icon on what device it played on, maybe who time when it played, and able to move a song from there to a Playlist. You have lots of smart software engineers, give someone half a day to code it and a UX engineer to make it look nice.
Sorry for the rant, after 45 minutes of searching had to get this off my chest.
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