Okay, two things, because even though I hate Apple Music's most recent incarnations, I'm using it for specific albums today:
ONE!
It always takes me too long to figure out whether I'm searching my Library, the Apple Music catalog (which I don't subscribe to), or the iTunes Store. Why is that? Because for some reason the selector for those 3 sources is way the fuck over on the other side of the app window for some reason??????
TWO!
Apparently, in Artists view, you can't sort by Year, Descending. I want to see the most recent album by a band at the top of the list. You can't... do this?
See here, I've clicked "Year", and then I've opened the dropdown again in order to click "Descending", because Apple hates us using their software and would prefer we never click on anything, so they make it fucking annoying to do so:
Now, you may notice, that despite showing the correct options, it's not working. It's showing the earliest Five Iron Frenzy album at the top. Clicking "Ascending," just as a sanity check, shows the exact same thing.
Now, having clicked Descending, if I close the View Options and then open it again, look what it has selected:
... what??? WHAT?????? That's not what I...
THIS IS A COINCIDENCE, because "Winter Wonder Rock" is the last alphabetical entry, too! BECAUSE APPARENTLY clicking "Ascending" or "Descending" overrides all other choices, and sorts by Title and then up or down?????? are you fucking kidding me????????????????????
Can I achieve this in the Albums view? nnnnnnope! You can sort by Artist and then by Year, but there's no further option to ascend or descend. Just... can't do it! Not because a computer can't do these things; not because there's no reason anyone would ever want to do this, not because you could never do this because it used to be possible in iTunes..........
but just because, at Apple, you are no longer required to think about what the people who use your software might want to reasonably do with it!
Dear Apple,
