r/AppleMusic

Hi everyone,

If you’re looking for a better way to handle new releases in Apple Music, this Marvis Pro approach might be useful.

I created Latest Releases section in Marvis Pro focused on new releases I haven’t listened to yet from artists I care about.

It pulls tracks from:

• All my favourited artists
• Artists I haven’t favourited but have spent >2 hours listening to or rated ≥ 4 stars (average rating of artist's songs)
• Any specific artists I want to include manually

Key rules:

• Play Count = 0 (only unlistened tracks)
• Release Date in the last 1 month or is empty (to catch brand new singles even if the date isn’t registered yet)
• 1 song per artist (prevents the same artist playing back to back)
• Sorted by Release Date descending (newest first)

I keep Extended Library enabled for broader coverage.

The result is a simple, automatically updating list that brings me the newest unlistened tracks from my favourite (and heavily listened) artists in a nicely mixed flow.

Here’s how it currently looks:

https://preview.redd.it/dhn0cedn61tg1.png?width=1290&format=png&auto=webp&s=b36514acd48bc91b8f4a6121faf04068c3e45de7

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Took only a few minutes to set up and updates itself as new music drops.

Would love to hear other solutions or improvements!

I’ve been buying cds again and have had issues with 90% of the cds I’ve imported via Apple Music on my Mac Studio. Some songs get separated, art work is different between songs, the numbering on double discs gets jumbled. I have tried clearing out downloaded artwork and trying to re fetch it. I have to go through metadata to edit and make sure everything is the same so albums can stay in tact. And if things finally look good on my Mac, I notice on my iPhone the artwork is all different still. I have sync on, tried turning it off and back on after a few days and have restarted Apple Music on both devices. It’s getting annoying.

I used to be on windows (when I would import cds years ago) and I remember it being very easy on windows media player lol

So my question is if anyone knows of a good alternative software to import my music to my computer and then I or it can copy it over to Apple Music?

I'm guessing the answer here is a simple "no", but I recently switched over from Spotify and have the issue that Apple Music recommends songs and artists that I purchased as a teenager on iTunes in the mid 2000s. I want personalization in recommended playlists but only from things I've specifically listened to recently.

Creating my original Spotify account a few years back was a breath of fresh air music-wise because I wasn't tied to any listening history and could thumbs up/thumbs down specific songs to build my profile, and I'd be happy to start all over again if that's what it took (realizing that the alternative would likely be manually selecting/de-selecting artists, if that feature even exists). Would prefer not to just make a brand new account given email/payment method connections but realize that might be the only option.

Appreciate any thoughts or recommendations!

Why oh why can’t Apple Music remember my settings!! When I start a playlist I set that I want to view the list as SONGS, with appropriate field option. At end of process I update the library and log off. Log on a day later and playlist has reverted to “view as playlist “, what happened to my setting! I have been having this problem for centuries and I am sure that there is a conspiracy committee doing this on purpose to laugh at my frustration! Will they ever stop this torture?

I'm hoping the community can help me find an app with the functionality I'm looking for. I've googled a bit and had a few false starts, and working out what features some of the add-on apps for Apple Music is difficult because there isn't detailed public documentation for some.

What I'd really like is an app that helps me with my music management with the following features ideally:

• Gets all my favourited artists
• Gets all their releases (albums, singles, comps)
• For any release where I haven't listed to every track at least once:
  • Add to a single playlist where the releases are in chronologically ordered for that artist, but otherwise mixed with other releases by other favourite artists without necessarily being chronological
  • Avoid having more than one release buy the same artist next to each other on the playlist
  • Once every track on a release is listened to at least once, removed from the playlist (although I can manage this bit myself fairly easily)
• Periodically check all my favourite artists for unlistened releases and add them to the playlist per the original criteria.
• Periodically check for newly favourited artists and add their releases to the playlist based on the original criteria

In short, I want to be able to favourite an artist and then have their music mixed into a single playlist on a per-album basis where, if I listen to the playlist in order it would slowly take me through their discography.

I appreciate this is fairly specific criteria, but I had hoped some of the apps that offer advanced playlist support could meet something like this, but I've already had to request a couple of refunds based on trying ones that were suggested through google.