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Comment by kyleashipley | Hacker News Reader

It seems like the music app received some half-baked changes across the board. For example, you can no longer shuffle all music in a particular genre through the app. They added (or maybe always had) an option to shuffle through Siri ("Play some blues"), but there are some frustrating edge cases:

"Play some video game music." "I'm sorry, I can't help you with videos."

I've had to resort to creating smart playlists for most of my genres, which is highly inefficient.

I find the new interface for shuffling to be confusing as well. It's now the word "Shuffle" with a white background, which changes to "Shuffle All" with a slight pink tinge when you tap it. If tapping "Shuffle" turns shuffle on, then why would tapping "Shuffle All" turn it off? It just seems like a confusing experience.

Overall, I'm fairly happy with iOS 7. But outside of radio, the music app feels like a regression.

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Rating a song has become less convenient too:

In song view, you have to switch to album (list) view and the rating for the currently playing song is shown in the album (list) view if you tap on 'Rating' in the upper left corner.

From this album (list) view with rating, you cannot jump to the next song to rate is as well. You have to tap 'Done' in the upper right corner, tap on the next icon and repeat the above-described steps to rate the next song.

When in "Now listening to" view, tap album art. Song/album text below is switched to rating. Tap rating you want.

Wow, that's very useful – you made my day! :)

Also missing from Music.app: The ability to delete music from the device. Fortunately I still have some space left on my phone, but barring plugging the phone into iTunes, I don't know how to decrease the amount of music on my phone.

I'm with you: iTunes Radio is nice, but the rest of the music app feels a bit worse off.

It's in Settings -> where ever the storage button is hidden these days -> Music. However, the option is only to delete all music.

I've seen that, and I guess as an iTunes Match subscriber I can be okay with that. It's just that I was able to delete individual songs/albums/artists off the phone in previous versions, so I was anticipating that here.

I can delete songs from my iOS 7 phone by swiping. I'm not sure which settings factor into this - it's being synced with iTunes via USB, and it's logged into iCloud but I doubt that makes a difference.

Strange, I can't get the swipe behavior in the Music app. I've yet to plug the phone into iTunes since the iOS 7 update, but whenever I swipe across an album or song, it acts as if I tapped it.

Swipe right to left, not left to right.

Huh. Works for tracks and playlists, not anything else, looks like. Still, much better than nothing. Thanks!

In any list of songs, I can swipe right to left to get a Delete button. All my music is synced from iTunes.

That may be part of it; I never plug my phone into my desktop, and I get my music on my phone via iTunes Match. But whether or not I have Match enabled on the device, I'm still not able to delete tracks/albums/etc with this behavior.

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