Some record companies release albums throughout the music spectrum, making their toes imaginative in every genre, subgenre, and language, while other record companies only attack the categories they are good at. If you are looking for new music and you can now listen to, browse and get old radio tags in Apple Music, iOS 14.5 allows you to browse like-minded artists, albums, and playlists by specific album tags.
Before iOS 14.5, you could search for record tags, but you could only think of them as the curator of the playlist they created-even if they had even created the playlist. Unable to see the complete list of music from the record company.
Now you can browse all albums from a single record tab on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch in several ways. Just make sure you are running iOS 14.5 or higher.
Find Them in the Search Tab
If you know the record label’s name, just head to the Search tab in the Music app, then enter the label into the search bar and make sure Apple Music is selected.
For example, “Sub Pop” will show you the Sub Pop curator as it did before, which houses all of its playlists, but you’ll also see Sub Pop Records listed as a record label. Tap the record label options for your search, and you can browse all of the albums the label has available on Apple Music. The label may not show up in the predictive results, so make sure to hit “search” on the keyboard.
If you don’t see the record label right in the Top Results, swipe on the filter bar at the top until you see “Record Labels,” and select that. If you don’t see the filter bar, make sure you hit “search” on your keyboard. It should narrow the results down considerably.
However, you may not see “Record Label” listed in the filter bar, or the particular label you’re looking for isn’t in the list. That means you may have spelled it wrong, the label isn’t on Apple Music, or the label hasn’t yet opted to have its whole catalog browsable in one place.
For instance, Sounds Family has albums on Apple Music, but the “Record Label” section won’t show in searches because the label isn’t yet participating.
Find Them from Album Pages
If you don’t know the name of the album, that’s great because you don’t need it. When you are on an artist’s album page, scroll to the end of the song list. In addition to checking the album release date (new album after iOS 14.5), you will also see the record label name because you will always see it next to the copyright symbol.
Now, if the record company has a good database on Apple Music, under the record, you will see a small section called “record company”, and under the record company, there is a link to the record company catalog. If there is no link here, the label has not yet participated in the function.
Obviously, this new Record Label feature in Apple Music isn’t perfect. It’d be much more useful if it just worked with every label that’s on Apple Music instead of what seems like cherry-picked popular ones. Hopefully, we’ll see more labels very soon.
