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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting (Tahoe)
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Came here to inquire about the same. I have a desktop headphone rig and connect directly to a DAC via USB-C port. I am currently using an App Store app called Colibri (it's fine...) in this setup.
I'd prefer to just use Music app, but the lack of automatic sample rate switching keeps me using Colibri (which can be weird at times with memory usage among other things). I have considered other solutions such as Audirvana.
Is it just me, or do Apple Music tracks sound a lot louder on Tahoe? Is Sound Check (volume normalization) function not working, or is the default volume of Music app simply much higher? I need to set the volume to about 50–60 percent of what I used on Sequoia to get the same level.
I've been on this since upgrading to Sequoia, where I discovered that when adding AIFF files to my library (99% of my library is my own files), Sound Check completely ignores what it should be adjusting the files by to normalize the audio level. WAV, MP3, etc all work just fine, it's only AIFF that was a problem.
Anyway... playing back the cloud files from my library seems to be off by exactly what the volume is listed in the Get Info option, under the File tab. If a track is -8dB, then it's playing back at -8dB below the expected normalization level of -16 LUFS-i. In this case, the playback is -24 LUFS-i! I also have found tracks listed at -3dB, and the playback level is -19 LUFS-i, so the chunk that's being added to the file to note that volume isn't being handled properly, but at least it's being handled at all in Tahoe Public Beta 3.
I haven't noticed anything playing back too loud yet, but I will peruse my library and see what else could be behaving oddly.
This is NUTS how quiet this is playing back. -26 LUFS is insane. Charli XCX's "I Love It" and some other iTunes purchases from back around 2010-2015 are all playing back VERY quietly.
Because they constantly change the UI for the music app, and the changes are never something that I care for - I have been working on what is basically a front end for the Apple Music app. Right now it only works with local music, because I myself will never use streaming and I made this for me. But I have started to investigate how I might incorporate streaming into it and make it into an Apple Music streaming client, if that were something that people were interested in. But it is to the point now that I have run out of bugs that I can find to fix and it would benefit from people testing it out. Also, because I prefer the UI from back in the good 'ol days, I have spent a lot of time working on the retro look. I haven't specifically tested it on Tahoe, but it works on Sequoia just fine, and the Tahoe betas are far enough along that its probably good now.
I guess I haven't posted enough to have the ability to paste a link into the forum here, otherwise I would just paste the link to the website - so if anyone would like to try it out, feel free to contact me, or just thumbs up this post and I can contact you. I would be glad for any feedback as I am trying to make this as good as possible.
I guess I haven't posted enough to have the ability to paste a link into the forum here, otherwise I would just paste the link to the website - so if anyone would like to try it out, feel free to contact me, or just thumbs up this post and I can contact you. I would be glad for any feedback as I am trying to make this as good as possible.
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Uhh. Have we completely lost the status bar? Turning it on and off in the View menu (where it has a new icon no less) does nothing!
Looks like with the new floating bottom bar, status has been integrated into titlebar. Seems to work in most or many views but not all yet.
As of the latest Beta I'm having a bug in Messages where little tiny 'thumbs up' reactions are being placed randomly (they come and go, each time making the unread count badge get thrown off) in all of my outgoing SMS texts.
Can't believe this UI ships in a week or so.
Not to mention it's still extremely buggy. All their time is probably spent on navigating the UI mess created by Liquid Glass.
i'm having major troubles with Sequoia playing music to 2 HomePods from a Mac mini m1
as the music source is a NVMe drive as the files were ripped CDs and converted to ALAC.
As I type this right now the Gato Barberi album keeps on pausing, which is a nuance.
seems to me that is not going to investigate or remedy any music problem with other's music than their subscriptions.
which is a shame, for real music lovers that have trouble with the music® app.
I fear Tahoe.
as the music source is a NVMe drive as the files were ripped CDs and converted to ALAC.
As I type this right now the Gato Barberi album keeps on pausing, which is a nuance.
seems to me that is not going to investigate or remedy any music problem with other's music than their subscriptions.
which is a shame, for real music lovers that have trouble with the music® app.
I fear Tahoe.
It works with lossless enabled - however it doesn't work with any uploaded tracks and worse still in what must be a big, it doesn't work with Apple Music tracks if you have "Matched" status for them - eg you uploaded and they were matched with iTunes Match to an Apple Music version - for some reason that breaks Automix as it sees them still as an uploaded track.
Annoying.
Please any update how is it managing local files on the app? I plan on updating to Tahoe but am afraid of many bugs, where I might not be able to transfer my aiff files with my custom artwork to Apple Music without it causing issues, or any syncing issues? Is it the same as Sequoia was?
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everything looks the same same
back in 2003 I ps and switched the heads on a MOBY CD
well that still shows in Tahoe, with cis easier to spell than sekhowyahz
I will find out soon enough, my Music source is from an external ssd drive as my fingers are crossed!
everything looks the same same
back in 2003 I ps and switched the heads on a MOBY CD
well that still shows in Tahoe, with cis easier to spell than sekhowyahz
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Music App is a complete mess.
Looks terrible, the floating bar at the bottom is terrible, I always want to drag it to the top where it belongs, because there is just empty space now...
Music App was completely unusable and beach balling the whole evening, I hope it works again til I get home today.
EDIT: No, not usable.
Every some seconds the beach ball comes up. This app is a complete disaster now and needs to be fixed ASAP.
Looks terrible, the floating bar at the bottom is terrible, I always want to drag it to the top where it belongs, because there is just empty space now...
Music App was completely unusable and beach balling the whole evening, I hope it works again til I get home today.
EDIT: No, not usable.
Every some seconds the beach ball comes up. This app is a complete disaster now and needs to be fixed ASAP.
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