Problem with adding new albums from Apple Music to my library

Hi. This is about Apple Music on Mac. Any help would be much appreciated! For ages I was able to add a new album as a playlist either by dragging and dropping it into my the left with playlists, or by using right mouse click menu 'add to playlist / new playlist'. The album would appear as a new playlist automatically named based on an album title. It doesn't work anymore. Actually it hasn't been working like this for a while. If I simply drag and drop a new album to the left bar now, the red frame appear as before, I can see activity status as work in progress, and an album is being added to my library but not to my playlists. Using right mouse click menu works however I need to type a playlist title myself, and the artwork is a random graphic. Anyone knows why they changed it, and if there's a way to going back to the previous app behaviour? The new way, if it's not a glitch, is counterintuitive and absolutely terrible when it comes to user experience. What's the point of adding a new album to library without adding it as a playlist if I drag it to my playlist section? Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.


BTW, it's also ridiculous you cannot select more than one playlist at a time 🤦🏼 So I if I want to remove multiple playlists I need to do it one by one. This is a basic action available in any type of software with a list of items FCS. iTunes was always the weakest app when it comes to UX, and now Music follows the same terrible path.




Posted on Jan 13, 2025 02:47 AM

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Jan 14, 2025 04:03 AM in response to RobbienGall

I thought I'd add a link with the video with the functionality I'm talking about but in Spotify. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDyRxvLWNH8

It used to be like this is Apple Music at some point, but not anymore. Anyone knows if there's a way to revert it and get this functionality back? Having to name every single new playlist when I'm adding a new album to my playlists is driving me crazy. Thanks!

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