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I hope they fix Music soon. Finding things in a large library is so much harder in Music than it was in iTunes. I thought Music was supposed to make it easier to manage your music library than iTunes, but they have managed to make it almost unusable.

What is the deal with Music? I thought that when they broke up iTunes to better serve the different media types, things should be faster and better? Not so.
I know that my library is a bit larger than most (30 000 albums, mostly classical music), so a faster and better app than iTunes would have been much appreciated. Music is not that app.
Music does not seem to be able to show me album covers. In iTunes all albums had cover art. In Music, maybe 30% have. 3 hours in, and less than half of the albumart is available.
In iTunes I could select column view and click on genre, composer and artist to see a list of all works that matched that combination. This is not possible in Music. I have to search and remember all the search criteria instead of just clicking in the different columns. Much more tedious and much more difficult to find the things I'm looking for.
Now if I want to find all the recordings I have of Das Rheingold by Wagner (9 complete recordings) I have to search for Wagner Rheingold, and I get a long list, not of the album, but of all the tracks on all albums, and without cover art for at least half of them, finding the right recording is a nightmare. In iTunes this was very simple, done by 3 mouseclicks. In Music it takes ages.
When I search for Wagner Siegfried, I don't get the opera Siegfried by Richard Wagner, but a list of all the recordings I have by his son - Siegfried Wagner. Music is a mess!!!

And suddenly - after 8 hours - all the album covers suddenly appears... Well - one concern less. Give me back column view from iTunes and I won't complain any more. And I really need album covers in Songs-view!