Every time I add anything to Music, it immediately starts "determining gapless playback information" for 23400 songs.
I let it finish, and then again add something. It just starts over. EVERY time.
Yes, I have scanned all files for errors and repaired or deleted them accordingly. It could not be more perfectly organized.
In Console.app, it just spews out warnings like this: edit> WARN 'lib ' track modified outside of a transaction 0xa1c7b43b58197d0e '' { 110 }. Of course it doesn't tell which song, so the information is completely useless.
Searching does not yield a viable solution. It can't be turned off. If I don't manually stop the activity, it will eventually thrash my disk to bits and pieces.
What gives? Music also has the nasty habit of splitting albums in two completely by random. Although it can be handled, it takes time and is so unnecessary.
What alternative software is available?
EDIT: Creating a new library and adding files anew does not help.
EDIT 2: Only solution seems to be to convert all mp3 files to AAC (or lossless). Apple's “AI” just isn't smart enough to give up and remember when it can't determine gap info, and it obviously can't deal with all existing kinds of mp3 files. It's a dead format anyway.
EDIT 3: In addition, Music.app cuts short songs for no apparent reason at all when converting mp3 to AAC. If it starts doing so, it will continue with all the rest of the songs marked for conversion, making all of them 3:03 or some other random length. 10% of my library has been wasted by this really nasty bug, or thousands of songs.
To circumvent it, use an external app like Mediahuman audio converter to convert to AIFF before importing into Music.app. This will remove any peculiar encoding problems that Music.app can't handle, and it is instead given a clean track.
I let it finish, and then again add something. It just starts over. EVERY time.
Yes, I have scanned all files for errors and repaired or deleted them accordingly. It could not be more perfectly organized.
In Console.app, it just spews out warnings like this: edit> WARN 'lib ' track modified outside of a transaction 0xa1c7b43b58197d0e '' { 110 }. Of course it doesn't tell which song, so the information is completely useless.
Searching does not yield a viable solution. It can't be turned off. If I don't manually stop the activity, it will eventually thrash my disk to bits and pieces.
What gives? Music also has the nasty habit of splitting albums in two completely by random. Although it can be handled, it takes time and is so unnecessary.
What alternative software is available?
EDIT: Creating a new library and adding files anew does not help.
EDIT 2: Only solution seems to be to convert all mp3 files to AAC (or lossless). Apple's “AI” just isn't smart enough to give up and remember when it can't determine gap info, and it obviously can't deal with all existing kinds of mp3 files. It's a dead format anyway.
EDIT 3: In addition, Music.app cuts short songs for no apparent reason at all when converting mp3 to AAC. If it starts doing so, it will continue with all the rest of the songs marked for conversion, making all of them 3:03 or some other random length. 10% of my library has been wasted by this really nasty bug, or thousands of songs.
To circumvent it, use an external app like Mediahuman audio converter to convert to AIFF before importing into Music.app. This will remove any peculiar encoding problems that Music.app can't handle, and it is instead given a clean track.
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