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The mobile app is a companion that assumes you're like me and have a large collection of playlists curated already from the desktop web app.

I do, so it works great for me.

Also, "playing" songs adds them to your run queue. you can also "play next" or "play last" to queue them appropriately.

In the search results, if you scroll past the song results, you'll see an album list. Tap the album list. "Play now" will queue the entire album in order.

They have the functionality, you're just not used to their terrible UX. (I'm a longtime paying Grooveshark and Spotify user, so I'm used to navigating this nonsense)

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I'm not exactly sure why it assumes such primary use case though. There are many downsides to such a scenario: playlists are not searchable; their order is also fixed, which exacerbates the former problem when your playlists grow massive. From my understanding of the UI, the user's library is supposed to solve both issues, but it is not easily browsable on either iOS or Android (my unfortunate choices for consuming music). Perhaps, a workaround is to have "smart playlists" or optional tags for an album that you can come back to later.

It becomes a bit frustrating because basically the only way to listen to an album is to search for it. I'm mostly OK with that workaround, but the problem is that many albums have duplicates. I specifically select particular tracks I want in the library to make sure I can maintain consecutive playback of entire albums that do require it; a selection process which is rendered useless when re-doing the search from ground up on the go.

In the general search field, the top section is Songs, the second section is Albums, and the last section is 'Playlists'. So they are searchable.

Is that true for the html5 app on iPhone? I can only see a list of songs, and add them to my queue.. No albums in sight. Tried with the aforementioned album, beatles - sgt peppers lonely hearts club band, "beatles" only..

Edit: looking at other comments it seems I may still be seeing the old version (still says beta at the top) here in Japan. Will try again later..

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