Hello Rajiv, It's good to hear from you.
Okay, thank you for your reply. To say that I am underwhelmed with Siri's Apple Music management capabilities in comparison to that of Alexa's Amazon Music management capability, would be the understatement of the summer, thus far, (smile). Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rajiv Shah Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 3:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Question for Veteran iOS, iPAD OS Apple Music App VoiceOver Users Hi Mark, As a fellow Apple Music user, I am afraid that all you can do with Siri is the following: "Hey Siri, add this album to my library." "Hey Siri, add this song to my workout playlist." In another words, speak the name of the playlist to which you'd like to add the song. Thank you. Rajiv ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Taylor" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2023 4:22:17 PM Subject: A Question for Veteran iOS, iPAD OS Apple Music App VoiceOver Users Hello All, I have been an Amazon Music subscriber for about 2 years, now. When a song is playing on any Alexa enabled device, I can say, "Alexa, I like this." Alexa will reply with something like, "OK, Mark, got it." Later, when I open the Amazon Music app on any device, there is an automatically generated play list called something like "Mark's Favorites." I have come to use this feature a great deal and, apparently, have begun taking it for granted. Now, as part of my Apple One subscription, I have started using my Apple Music app on both my iPhone and iPad. For the past few days, when various songs were playing, I said, "Siri, I like this." Just like Alexa, Siri responds with, "got it." Upon hearing this, I foolishly assumed that, like Alexa, some kind of playlist or station would be populated with a list of the songs I specifically liked, during playback. Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!! Wow! After conducting some extremely unsatisfying searches on the net, from what I can tell, no automatically generated playlist is created by Siri. Then, I read that one can tell Siri to add the currently playing song to a specific playlist. Then, I read that one can create smart playlists that, in effect, mimic the functionality of Alexa. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that one cannot create smart playlists via the Apple Music app on iPhone or iPad? Question: is this true??? If so, it is crazy!!! So, I am posting this in hopes that someone will correct the info I have obtained or confirming it. And no, I do not want to create a shortcut in order to create / manipulate playlists. All replies greatly appreciated. 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