[tshaddox]

Apple Music isn't as library-focused as I would like it to be. Or perhaps the better term for what I'm talking about is "album-focused." I hate that when I add a playlist to my library, every single track in that playlist causes its album to show up in the Albums list and that artist to show up in the Artists list. This makes the Artists list essentially useless for browsing, because there are hundreds of artists that I've never heard of because they had a single track in some playlist that I added to my library. I can understand why it works this way, but boy is it frustrating. I would love to have a manually-curated set of albums (viewable by album name or by artist) totally separate from the ability to add playlists to my library.

[erdaltoprak]

Hi,

I’m not sure if this solves your issue but you can uncheck ‘add songs to library’ then only songs/albums that you actually add to your library show up and others only live in playlists!

[tshaddox]

Oh, that’s super interesting! I see the setting and I’ll check if it solves my issue (it sounds like it does). I wonder if this setting got introduced or changed in the last year or two, because I don’t remember having the problem before that.

[kall]

This setting is going to change your life (maybe hyperbole...). It's one of the things that makes me really appreciate Apple Music.

With this setting, and an interface that can group playlists by album and filter them by artist, you can get as many additional "virtual libraries" as you want, kinda like Twitter lists. Remember you can also put playlists themselves into folders and create dynamic playlists.

You can assemble music for various situations or events, manage things like "planning to check out" etc without polluting your core library.

If you want to go deep on this and use iOS, check out Marvis Pro also.

[tshaddox]

Yeah, this is great, although it’s going to be a big effort to go clean out my library from all this time I had the setting wrong!

How do you view a playlist organized by artist or album? Does that require Marvis Pro?

[kall]

It‘s possible in the mac Music app. On iOS, it requires an app like that. Before I knew about Marvis, I had build out a system to navigate album playlist via Shortcuts.