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

In addition to the lag and general UI flaws, here are some bugs that are new to Music in Tahoe that I haven't seen listed explicitly in the thread:
  • 'Show In Playlist' menu action expands all playlist folders. Other actions periodically do this as well, destroying navigation for anyone with lots of playlists who uses folders to organize them.
  • The currently playing song is no longer highlighted and scrolled to when a playlist is playing, making it hard to track it down if you want to modify the song or remove it from a playlist.
  • The 'Open in new window' action on playlists is completely non-functional. It doesn't open the playlist in a new window, it just changes the user's selection to the 'All Playlists' view.
  • Deleting a song from a playlist sometimes collapses all playlist folders in the sidebar. Sometimes it doesn't. Between this and the first bug, the playlist sidebar is basically a random list of chaos.
I've reported all of these in Feedback Assistant, and most of them have "10 or more" recent similar reports. Which at least means other people are reporting them too, but certainly doesn't mean they'll be fixed given the awful state that Music was released in.
 
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If you are experiencing lag in Tahoe, make sure you kill all your electron apps, put
Code: 
launchctl setenv CHROME_HEADLESS 1 in Terminal
and then relaunch them. You'll see they have no window shadow. This bug is not fixed in 26.1b1. Also check if corespotlightd is hogging your cpu and spiking intermittently, this might be sign of a corrupt Spotlight index. I had to disable SIP to turn it off and get rid of some indexes that wouldn't even go away with sudo.
 
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SteamyDinkins said:
In addition to the lag and general UI flaws, here are some bugs that are new to Music in Tahoe that I haven't seen listed explicitly in the thread:
  • 'Show In Playlist' menu action expands all playlist folders. Other actions periodically do this as well, destroying navigation for anyone with lots of playlists who uses folders to organize them.
  • The currently playing song is no longer highlighted and scrolled to when a playlist is playing, making it hard to track it down if you want to modify the song or remove it from a playlist.
  • The 'Open in new window' action on playlists is completely non-functional. It doesn't open the playlist in a new window, it just changes the user's selection to the 'All Playlists' view.
  • Deleting a song from a playlist sometimes collapses all playlist folders in the sidebar. Sometimes it doesn't. Between this and the first bug, the playlist sidebar is basically a random list of chaos.
I've reported all of these in Feedback Assistant, and most of them have "10 or more" recent similar reports. Which at least means other people are reporting them too, but certainly doesn't mean they'll be fixed given the awful state that Music was released in.
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  • 'Show In Playlist' menu action expands all playlist folders. Other actions periodically do this as well, destroying navigation for anyone with lots of playlists who uses folders to organize them.
  • The 'Open in new window' action on playlists is completely non-functional. It doesn't open the playlist in a new window, it just changes the user's selection to the 'All Playlists' view.
  • Deleting a song from a playlist sometimescollapses all playlist folders in the sidebar. Sometimes it doesn't. Between this and the first bug, the playlist sidebar is basically a random list of chaos.
    • Seems to be fixed in 26.1b1
  • The currently playing song is no longer highlighted and scrolled to when a playlist is playing, making it hard to track it down if you want to modify the song or remove it from a playlist.
    • Confirmed, but only in Playlist view. Song view works fine.
 
Music new version in 26.1b1 - 1.6.1.22.
"Show in Apple Music" has been put back in the song menu.
I haven't found any other bugs yet in Music.
 
The search result sub-pages are broken. If you search in the upper left Search box and then click the Playlists headers to show the matching playlists, it takes you to a broken page. You can't click the playlists, double-click them, or right-click them. You get search results that you can't do anything with other than play them, and even that only happens if you hover the playlist to unhide the little Play button in the bottom corner.

The Tahoe Music app is a disaster.
 
Anyone having trouble scrolling passed a certain point in Song view ?

I can get up to B but no further. If I select a band further down the alphabet ( Yes, Thunder etc ) it displays the albums, but I can't scroll down in full view that I could before on OS 15. Now on Tahoe.

Also. when an artist is selected in song view, there appears to be lots of empty lines at the end (bottom) of the song tracks with nothing listed, instead of the scroll stopping after the last song on the last album ?

Edit: Reboot the iMac seemed to solve the scrolling block.

The dead space at the bottom remains.
 

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It used to be that you could use the keyboard to scroll to a particular artist in Albums view, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. (It still seems to work in Songs view.)

If a song is playing (or paused) using the compluter speakers as playback output, selecting an AirPlay source now stops playback entirely. Before the new update, the song would continue playing (or stay on pause).

Hitting command-L and then command-I would formerly bring up the Get Info box for the currently playing song, but I get a bug that won't bring up the box right away. Clicking away from the currently playing song and then back than allows command-I to work.

Most of the previous updates didn't bother me much, but this one is a real step back—especially with the much less useful and efficient interface design. Plus, I keep getting "Music quit unexpectedly" error boxes when I quit the program.
 
Watched shows dont seem to get a tick.

Deleted from library shows stay in view instead of disappearing. Only when you exit and go back do they actually disappear from the list.

Was fine before the MacOS 26 update.

Edit - sorry this is in the TV app.
 
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Does anyone who has updated to 26.0.1 know if the update fixed the Music app bug/bad UI where a playlist's duration could only be seen if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the playlist?
 
Jumpthesnark said:
Does anyone who has updated to 26.0.1 know if the update fixed the Music app bug/bad UI where a playlist's duration could only be seen if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the playlist?
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You don't need to scroll all the way to the bottom, just scroll down a little bit and make sure the status bar is enabled (View > Show Status Bar). This is on 26.0.1 but I don't think the behavior has changed at all.

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edit: I just noticed this only works for playlists that you've added to your library.
 
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tkermit said:
You don't need to scroll all the way to the bottom, just scroll down a little bit and make sure the status bar is enabled (View > Show Status Bar). This is on 26.0.1 but I don't think the behavior has changed at all.

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edit: I just noticed this only works for playlists that you've added to your library.
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That seems to be an Apple Music window, I'm talking about the Music app. Does that work in a playlist you've created made of downloaded or ripped songs? Thanks!

Nothing new, but Apple having changed the name of the app from iTunes to Music has led to a lot of confusion, same with Photos. So to be clear I'm not talking about the streaming service that is also called "Music" 😭 just the app for playing music from user-created playlists and the library.
 
The whole app is such a travesty, especially for local library.There's still a lot of bugs - you can't play a particular track from an album, it's always starting from first song and you ned to skip it to one you need. If you open album page and return, the whole playlist keep disappearing in album view, so you need to restart the app for it to be shown again :mad::mad::mad:

Gosh, I miss good old iTunes, even willing to pay if only this idji:apple:ts bring it back and make it default app for local music🥲
 
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Apologies if this has already been mentioned.

Ever since the introduction of Music Playlist folders have been screwed up. They were always closed when starting the app (as opposed to iTunes which remembered which ones were open or closed)

They have contrived to make things worse in the new version. Now they are all open!

Many other problems as well but this is the most annoying for me
 
canyelles said:
Apologies if this has already been mentioned.

Ever since the introduction of Music Playlist folders have been screwed up. They were always closed when starting the app (as opposed to iTunes which remembered which ones were open or closed)

They have contrived to make things worse in the new version. Now they are all open!

Many other problems as well but this is the most annoying for me
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Have just downloaded 26.0.1 and now they are all closed! Preferable but not correct!

Also 'play last' does not always add anything to the queue.
 
The change to put the Now Playing bar as a semi-transparent overlay at the bottom of the main Music window has to be one of the dumbest design ideas put forward by anyone at Apple. It's the equivalent of putting the address bar, tab bar, and browser controls for Safari at the bottom of the browser window. From an information architecture perspective it makes no sense whatsoever. Primary focus goes at the top, subtext goes below. Now Playing is NOT subtext -- it's the whole point of the Music app; to play and listen to music. On iOS it makes sense only because of reachability issues with one-handed touch interactions; on MacOS it reverses the entire western reading perspective of top to bottom left to right. Apple needs to undo this change and put Now Playing back where it belongs, at the top of the Music window.
 
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couchdave said:
Hitting command-L and then command-I would formerly bring up the Get Info box for the currently playing song, but I get a bug that won't bring up the box right away. Clicking away from the currently playing song and then back than allows command-I to work.
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If you have Keyboard Maestro, you can create a macro where the cmd-L hotkey runs this Applescript, which gives you the old behavior back. This is what I just did.

tell application "Music"
if player state is playing then
reveal current track
activate
else
display alert "No track is currently playing."
end if
end tell
 
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Trying a different tactic here with the Apple Music bugs I’ve been seeing: DOES ANYONE READING THIS HAVE ANY OLD ITUNES STORE PURCHASES THAT THEY CAN TEST COMPARED TO MODERN STREAMING MUSIC??? THIS TEST NEEDS SOUND CHECK TO BE TURNED ON!

I’ve got quite a few songs I purchased between 2010 and 2015, and a LOT of them are playing significantly quieter than they should be when the SoundCheck option is turned on. I’m not talking about random songs that flew under the radar, but am talking about top-40 charting songs from artists like Adele, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, etc.

Most of the songs are playing 3-10 dB quieter than what should be the normalized level that SoundCheck plays back to. I’ve got tools that can measure the sound system level inside MacOS, but these shouldn’t be needed for anyone else to test. Just listen to an old iTunes Store purchase and compare it to the loudness of a comparable AppleMusic streaming file.

Here are some iTunes purchases that I noted when submitting a bur report:

Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Prince - Let’s Go Crazy
Adele - Set Fire To The Rain
 
leniwsek said:
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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I don’t know, as the MacBook Pro that I have for DJ’ing purposes (where my AIFF’s reside) is still on Sequoia. I really wish I hadn’t upgraded from Ventura or whatever it was I had before the Sequoia upgrade. I almost want to downgrade to whatever was before Sequoia.

Anyway, I don’t recall there being any big issues with the files themselves, but I also don’t allow AppleMusic to organize my library. All my files are in a folder in my Dropbox folder, so I have an instant backup of them, in case anything ever goes wrong.
 
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