Google play music app for android, sorting songs

[ecook14460]

I've been using Google Play Music app on my android device for a short time.
On a couple other apps I used, I could sort music or artists by a variety of options.
I particularly liked sorting artists my number of songs for that artist.
The artists for which I had the most songs in my library appeared at the top of the list.

Is that possible on Google Play Music?

 

[GSDer]

I don't see any options at all for sorting - you get Alphabetic and that's it.
Google leaves a lot to be desired...

 

[dty06]

This was why I switched over to Poweramp and unlocked the paid version. It works really well for sorting/organizing music. Better sound quality, too.

 

[birgami]

I recomended Spotify

 

[LeoRex]

Well, Google Play Music is really designed to more of a music service and not a management application. That Google allows you to store, what, 50,000 of your own songs in a special Google Drive container that you can access in Music sort of confuses things a bit.

So it has curated lists, 'radios', etc.... but it lacks a lot of the tools you would use to organize your own stuff... other than some basics (like things you've given a thumbs up).

I think I have some 30,000 songs pushed up to GPM, along with GPM Premium. But I just 'set it and forget it' and let it do its thing. Either I am listening to a radio station I created based on a song I was feeling that day or shuffling through the thumbs up'd songs in my library.

 

[Tom914]

I use Google Music Manager to transfer music files from my iTunes Music folder to my Google Play Music library, so I can play them on my Android device. GMM is a program that was seems to have been designed for Windows 7 and hasn't been updated since, but I can't find anything else that transfers files from the iTunes Music folder to Google in some semblance of order. When I set GMM to transfer only selected Playlists from the iTunes Music folder, what comes across is a mish-mash that only faintly resembles the Playlists I requested. (There is no way to select artists, genres, podcasts or songs for transfers. It's either Playlists or the whole shebang.) What I get after it takes a couple of hours to transfer 1500 files are the requested Playlists - Yaa! - plus many hundreds of duplicates, many songs that aren't in the requested Playlists, and hundreds of unrequested Podcasts. IOW, a disorganized mess.

It took me hours to manually delete all the duplicates in Google Play Music. iTunes can spot a duplicate in a millesecond; GPM doesn't know such a thing exists.

There is no way to transfer podcasts from the iTunes podcasts folder to a podcast folder in GPM. They just appear unsummoned in the GPM Songs department. Trying to shuffle Songs in Google Play is hopeless because the Songs listing contains both songs and podcasts. To shuffle songs, I had to make a Playlist that contains only songs and no podcasts. As yet, I have been unable to place all my podcasts in one place. They're scattered randomly in the Songs listing.

You'd think an advanced and successful company like Google would be able to produce an efficient song-management app that could transfer a pre-organized library from a Windows folder to Google Play Music. Music Manager ain't that program.