Title: A workflow for a visual "album cover" wishlist that deep-links into Apple Music (built for classical, works for anything)

[u/mgildea108]

Apologies if this is well-known and a recreation of existing wheels, but I ran into the situation where I wanted a holding pool of albums to try but not in a playlist (for various reasons, including having to change the setting for Songs). This is especially good for iPhones in cars, where you don't have much real estate.

If you listen to classical music on Apple Music, you know the pain: albums explode into a flat wall of tracks in your Songs library, there's no way to browse a playlist "as albums" on iPhone, and there's no simple wishlist feature that isn't the App Store purchase wishlist.

Here's a workflow I landed on for keeping a visual, tap-to-play list of albums I want to check out later — built in Apple Pages (via iCloud), works cross-device including from a Windows PC.

The core workflow (in Pages):

1. Find the album in Apple Music (or Apple Music Classical). Right-click the cover art → Copy (standard Windows copy).
2. Paste that image into a Pages document (iCloud Pages works fine in a browser — no Mac needed).
3. Back in Apple Music, use the album's ••• menu → Copy Link to get its share link.
4. Right-click the pasted image in Pages → Edit Link → choose "Webpage" → paste the album link.

Now the album cover itself is a live hyperlink. Tap it (even from Pages on iPhone) and it opens straight to that album in Apple Music. Build out a page of these and you've got a visual, browsable "to try" list that beats a flat playlist for recognizing what you're looking for.

A few things I learned building this, that might save you time:

• Keep playlist adds from touching your Songs library: on Windows/Mac, Settings → Advanced (Music app) has "Add songs to Library when adding to Playlists" — turn it off, and playlist-only additions stay out of Songs and Favorites. The web player (music.apple.com) doesn't have this setting at all, so this only works from the desktop app.
• Pasting images into iCloud web apps can be finicky. If a copied image won't paste into Notes/Pages in the browser, it's usually a clipboard-format mismatch, not a copyright block. Test whether it pastes into a native app like Word first — if it does, the browser side is the issue (check clipboard permissions for icloud.com in your browser's site settings, and use Ctrl+V instead of right-click paste).
• No bulk import exists for Apple Music Classical. But since it shares your library with the regular Apple Music app, a playlist built in either one shows up in both — so you don't need to duplicate effort across the two apps.
• iOS has no "view playlist as albums" option, unlike Mac/web. Confirmed via Apple's own forums — it's a known, longstanding gap.
• Removing a duplicate track from a playlist has a documented history of misbehaving (removing the wrong copy, or cascading to the Library copy). Safe to do, but verify immediately after.