Please, Apple. My music library. It’s very sick.

I’m an Apple Music user. I know there are other popular services out there, but I like Apple Music. I love that I can upload my own files to it. I love their selection of DJ mixes. I’m not interested in moving to a different service.

But please, Apple. You’ve got to help me. Because my music library is completely out of control.

I’m an album listener. I have a bunch of playlists I listen to too, but I really love listening to albums. My music discovery process usually goes something like this.

• Find an album I want to listen to.

• Add it to my library, because I probably don’t want to listen to it right this second, and there’s no way I’ll be able to remember it later if I don’t.

• Come back later. Go to my library. Scroll down until I find that thing I wanted to listen to.

• Listen to it. Add songs I like to various playlists.

• Listen to other stuff. Maybe listen to that thing again. Or not.

This is where the problems arise. In my ideal world, I have a music library full of albums I love to revisit, and a bunch of playlists for different situations. What I don’t want is a music library full of every thing I’ve ever listened to. And while it should be easy to periodically prune the library, Apple Music has one terrible drawback that makes this task almost impossible.

See, when you remove an album from your music library in Apple Music, it also removes all of that album’s songs from any playlists that you might have added them to. This makes pruning the library a nightmare.

So please, Apple, the most important thing you can do to improve Apple Music for people like me is to fix this. I know this is probably an artifact of the iTunes days and a huge engineering headache, but it’s frustrating, counterintuitive, and means that Apple Music works differently than every other streaming music service out there.

At this point Apple Music is 7.5 years old. It’s not 2015 anymore. It’s 2022. We’re all exhausted all of the time and no one has the patience to re-add songs to their playlists every time they remove something from their music library. So please, I’m begging you, fix this.

There is one other thing I’d love to see that would make Apple Music better for the way I listen to music, and that’s the ability to pin albums to the top of the library. This would be icing on the cake.

The thing is, the top of my library is always filled with a bunch of things I intend to listen to someday, but don’t necessarily love yet. The Listen Now tab is full of things that the computer thinks I want to listen to, but the computer is always wrong. The things I actually want to listen to — the things that I love — inevitably sink to the murky depths of the library list.

But I think that would be a really easy fix. Just give me an option to pin an album, track, playlist, or maybe even artist to the top of my library for easy access. It could look something like this.

If I could just have that one little playlist fix, I would finally be able to tame my unruly music library. If I could just have that one little pin button, my library could finally serve the dual purpose of helping me discover new music while also making it easy to return to the albums I love. If I could have those two things, my life would be perfect and I would have no more complaints about Apple’s software.

Except for the gigantic page margins in the Books app. Don’t get me started on those.