{"id":21023,"date":"2018-04-01T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T01:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21023"},"modified":"2024-04-23T13:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T17:38:24","slug":"why-doesnt-apple-music-let-users-search-for-composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/01\/why-doesnt-apple-music-let-users-search-for-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn’t Apple Music Let Users Search for Composers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You see some composers listed as “artists,” you see their names in the titles of albums (for a number of years, many if not most classical albums that feature music from a single composer have that composer’s name at the beginning of the title), you may see playlists with a composer’s music, you even see “songs,” but you cannot see all the music by a composer.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

This lack of searchability borders on contempt. Apple Music wants you to be able to “discover” music, but they don’t give you the tools to search for anything. You can only really discover music in the For You section, or in playlists. And it’s not just for classical music; I’d like to have better search for jazz as well, looking for specific musicians.<\/p>\n

Apple has the metadata; they just don’t let customers access it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

This sort of thing is why it annoys me whenever Apple talks about music being in its DNA.<\/p>\n\n

Fred Showker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Go to Google advanced search, and search for Composer in the phrase field, and put itunes.apple.com in the ‘at site’ field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-04-02): Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Even something as basic as the year of release cannot be searched even amongst local tracks<\/em> on iOS, and I find that completely absurd. I would love nothing more than to see a modernized version of the column browser better tailored for Apple Music’s vast library.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-04-12): Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After I linked<\/a> to Kirk McElhearn’s piece<\/a> about Apple Music’s limited search capabilities, Erin “Syd” Sidney<\/a> pointed me to a three-year-old post<\/a> he wrote about the lack of detailed creator information available on the platform[…]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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