Apple Music Pre-Release Album Issues

[Tambe257]

This is probably just one of those issues that Apple will eventually fix, but I figured I'd throw it out there to see if anyone had any insight. When an album is listed in Apple music as "Pre-Release" you can add it to your library, and usually there are one or two tracks that the artist released early to tease the album. How it SHOULD work is that when the album is release, the rest of the tracks that had previously not been available would now show as available for stream or download. Unfortunately what actually happens, and has happened for at least the year that I've been a subscriber, is that those tracks still show as greyed out. I need to remove the album from my library and re-add it to the library, which defeats the purpose of adding a pre-release album in the first place. It's not a huge issue, but it's certainly a bug. Hopefully it will get resolved in this fall's os updates.  

[The Computer Audiophile]

Yes, very annoying. I've seen similar things with other services, where they only allow adding these pre-release tracks as singles. When the full album comes out, one has to add the album, then remove the singles. 

 

Lots of room for improvement. 

[kirkmc]

Yep, it should be that all the tracks are added to your library. But since you don't buy them, I think they've not figured out how to get it to work.