[mbell]

> But it's worth remembering that Spotify's fundamental unit is the user playlist

I don't think that is true.

My interaction with Spotify is much more about listening to an artist or song and using 'more like this'. And the fundamental unit of sharing is 'friend x listened to this song'. If I know I like their tastes I tend to list to that song then, if I like it, listen to 'more like this'.

I spent about an hour earlier trying to use Apple Music via iTunes and left incredibly frustrated. I couldn't make it do anything I actually wanted it to do.

As a simple example, go to 'new' then, pick a genre from the incredibly awkwardly placed drop down, scroll down and you see 'top songs'. Cool, I thought, lets play the top songs from this genre! Except, as near as I can tell, there is actually no way to play those songs as a 'playlist'. You can click one at a time, and they play, but after each finishes it just stops.

[threeseed]

Weird for me it seems exactly right. I tend to share and follow playlists not individual songs.

Also I have had no issue getting Apple Music to work the way I want including what you were trying to achieve. I just clicked on Top Songs and it opened as a playlist where after the first song finished it played the next one. Maybe you were clicking the indvidiual songs ?