I seriously don't understand what's going on with this app. I deleted my library and re-added all the albums I have, so it's not a corrupted library file. Album artwork sometimes load, sometimes it doesn't. I click an album, sometimes it goes to that album, sometimes it doesn't. I shut down the app, open it up again, I search for the same album and click on it, then it goes to the album. This is how buggy this thing is. And it wasn't like this in the previous Mac Os. How can they mess up an app this much in one release? As far as I know the only thing that changed is the UI.
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Apple Music app in Tahoe is almost unusable
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They changed how manual playlists are managed. The result is that sometimes I can only
Occasionally it even works !!!!
- Add items to the top but not the bottom
- Add items to the bottom but not the top
- Not add anything at all
Occasionally it even works !!!!
I've also experienced many issues with Apple Music since installing Tahoe (initially 26.0.1). I'm running 26.1 now and many of the bugs are still there, along with some new ones:
- New albums added to an existing playlist appear as individual tracks, rather than as an album, as is my preference.
- Clicking the "<" button in the upper left corner usually results in the playlist appearing blank, quitting and restarting the app usually (but not always) corrects the bug.
- Frequently, when attempting to start a playlist by clicking the "Play" button nothing happens. If I "right click" on the play button and select "Show in Apple Music," it usually works.
- Sometimes the audio defaults to my MacBook speakers, rather than the previously-selected HomePod pair. De-selecting and then re-selecting the HomePods usually corrects this.
This is not a complete list and some of the bugs seem to come and go.
- New albums added to an existing playlist appear as individual tracks, rather than as an album, as is my preference.
- Clicking the "<" button in the upper left corner usually results in the playlist appearing blank, quitting and restarting the app usually (but not always) corrects the bug.
- Frequently, when attempting to start a playlist by clicking the "Play" button nothing happens. If I "right click" on the play button and select "Show in Apple Music," it usually works.
- Sometimes the audio defaults to my MacBook speakers, rather than the previously-selected HomePod pair. De-selecting and then re-selecting the HomePods usually corrects this.
This is not a complete list and some of the bugs seem to come and go.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
I have a completely unfounded theory with the 26.2 updates fixing a lot of these problems. The only evidence I have is the updated MiniPlayer which I hope to try today. LOL. I am crossing my fingers.
Seriously though. MiniPlayer on iPad looks amazing. On windows it looks decent. On Mac it looks…forgotten.
Seriously though. MiniPlayer on iPad looks amazing. On windows it looks decent. On Mac it looks…forgotten.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
Yep not really any better. You still have the weird history/next thing, and you still have no way to see the song title, etc., unless you are mousing over it.
Toffee917
macrumors newbie
Seems like Apple Music on macOS Tahoe is buggy. My issue: whenever I quit the app, it automatically re-opens but it's hidden. Also, when deleting a next song on "My Station" the music does not search or curate another song and it just stops playing.
To be honest, there's a lot wrong with Apple apps nowadays. Heck, even the Remote app (iOS and watchOS) does not work as it used to be - on watchOS, the app only works with AppleTV! Before, I can control media playback with my Apple Watch via that app.
To be honest, there's a lot wrong with Apple apps nowadays. Heck, even the Remote app (iOS and watchOS) does not work as it used to be - on watchOS, the app only works with AppleTV! Before, I can control media playback with my Apple Watch via that app.
Apple Knowledge Navigator
macrumors 601
It’s pure laziness on Apple’s part. For intents and purposes, they’ve just recycled the iPad app.
Even when you restart the app, the window scales to an iPad screen dimension.
The player bar at the bottom makes absolutely no sense when the controls of apps have traditionally been at top or sides windows.
The iTunes Store is a nightmare to navigate, and it’s anyone’s guess where you’ll end up - either somewhere else in the store, your library, a blank screen - and that’s if the right navigation controls are present.
Even when you restart the app, the window scales to an iPad screen dimension.
The player bar at the bottom makes absolutely no sense when the controls of apps have traditionally been at top or sides windows.
The iTunes Store is a nightmare to navigate, and it’s anyone’s guess where you’ll end up - either somewhere else in the store, your library, a blank screen - and that’s if the right navigation controls are present.
I also think this is a really bad app and probably the worst Apple app on Tahoe. The UI is really bad with some parts from the old app, some parts of the iPad app, some stuff like the now playing bar looking like its clickable when its not... I really hope they improve it next year.
raindogg
macrumors 6502
The one thing I hate most about Apple is their "Change for Change" philosophy. Apple Music is a mess now, wha used to take one click now requires two or more. I used to just click the cover and it would shrink to the mini player, now you have to click and "choose" mini player. Apple Music on the Mac keeps losing connection with my HomePod speakers. I have to reset it every time I launch it. I used to click the Red button on the mini player to go back to the main screen, now I have to click and "choose full" player. Also, every time I open the Music App in MOS26 it's tiny, no matter how many times I've enlarged it, it will always launch tiny.
Toffee917
macrumors newbie
My biggest problem with the new Music app on Tahoe is the issue with playing My Station - after a couple of songs, the queue empties out and music just stops. Another thing is that when I remove a song from the queue (on My Station still), the program does search from my curated songs and leaves the queue empty - this is not seen on the iOS version of the same app.
Apple Music became a mess on macOS 26. Whoever is/was responsible for for this should be severely reprimanded.
macaddiict
macrumors 6502
I'm having to test some project output on the newest OS, so I have a Tahoe machine again. Thought I'd log in and listen to music while doing my testing & after 72 hours and multiple reboots and retries, Apple Music on Tahoe still hasn't loaded my cloud library. Same machine, no changes except booting to Sequoia, and Apple Music can load and play everything.
It's wild to see Apple fall on their face like this.
It's wild to see Apple fall on their face like this.
Here's one I just discovered: I searched for a particular song in the Music app window, and it wasn't found - I knew it was in my library. Just for grins, I searched "Beatles" (I have everything they released, and more)...nothing - zero hits.
The search function would not deliver a hit on any word I entered, even though I knew the songs/artists were there.
I'd love to figure this out.
The search function would not deliver a hit on any word I entered, even though I knew the songs/artists were there.
I'd love to figure this out.
bogdanw
macrumors G3
Make sure you "Click the search field at the top of the window, then click Your Library on the right."
Apple Support - Search for music in Music on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/music/search-for-music-mus896f20db7/mac
Sorry, I should have specified...not referring to the general search in the sidebar, but to the find in songs search. I literally am looking at names in my library list, perform a search for same, and come up with no hits.