Sorting Songs in Catalina Music app

This is a poor and unfortunate response by Apple. The removal of the Column Browser is a great loss in the update. Viewing and navigating songs by album or artist was so much easier with the Column Browser. My use of Apple Music will be greatly diminished without the 3-columm browser display. I'm very disappointed in Apple's decision to remove it, especially since so many users desire it.

Hello Scott,

Thanks for that info and for choosing the Apple Support Communities. If I understand correctly, you would like to customize the Music app window when looking at songs to be able to sort in a way that works better for you. To do this, when you click Songs from the Library in the left sidebar, then press Command-J you will be able to select the View Options for Songs. Pick the options that would help with the sorting you need. Then you can drag the Genre, Artist, Songs and other options left or right at the top to the positions you prefer them at. You can also hover your mouse next to the word Library in the sidebar to get an edit option and adjust what is shown in the sidebar.

Keyboard shortcuts in Music on Mac

Cheers!

If you've not already found it View > Show Filter Field might let you narrow things down to a particular genre or artist in similar way to the old search feature in iTunes, but still nowhere near as powerful as the column browser.

tt2

Chrig_g1 -- your answer about sorting is incomplete. Here's my problem. If I sort by Genre -- then some of the other fields are not sorted. So I have Genre as the primary sort but the tracks column is out of order. I have the album songs grouped but the song order is wrong because tracks is no longer sorted. I have tried sorting on tracks, then on genre in the hope that the track order would not be messed up when genre is sorted, but this doesn't help. This problem is called secondary sort. Is there anyway to sort genre, then album within genre, than disc within album, the track within disc?

I can not forgive Apple for eliminating column browser view. If I had know before upgrading to Catalina I absolutely would not have upgraded. But given there is no column browser we should at least have an intelligent sort capability in the song list.

The Show Filter Field feature is very helpful - I would like to have it permanently available, instead of disappearing once something is selected after using the filter to restrict the music that is displayed.

Strongly advice reintroducing the Column Browser from iTunes (in the song library menu) to the new Music app.

Me too. Use Product Feedback - Apple to share your thoughts with Apple.

tt2

The Column Browser from iTunes has not been implemented in the new Music app in Catalina.

tt2

Removal of the column browser is a huge step backwards - please put this back into the Music app ASAP!

I use this daily.

Rumour has it that it is restored in macOS 10.15.2.

tt2

Removing the Column Browser was a terrible idea. With nearly 100,000 songs, my library is hard to manage without it. Another vote for bringing it back.

I want to strongly add my vote that the column browser be reinstated. This is an extremely frustrating loss of functionality. WHY?!?!?!

Download Catalina 10.15.2 -- the latest update -- and you will be happy to see that column browser HAS BEEN RESTORED!