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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting (Tahoe)

Does Music finally do automatic bit-rate switching in Tahoe or does one still need to go into the Audio MIDI settings?
 
revox12 said:
Does Music finally do automatic bit-rate switching in Tahoe or does one still need to go into the Audio MIDI settings?
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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.
 
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hehnspkl said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.

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When a radio station or artist is playing, the right-click on the song menu (in the box bar) in Tahoe's Apple Music no longer has the option to Go To Current Song or Show to Apple Music.
 
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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.
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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