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

[MBAir2010]

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!

in 2007 I purchased via iTunes is Enigma "Seven Lives Many Faces" which sound bland lacking volume in th music
on Tahie, Music app. sound check off and ON


fooBar and my MacBook Air 2010 snow leopard is playing that album better!

"we are supposed to SUBSCRIBE......not own music"
, 2020-forever

 

[Macs Pain]

Sound Check doesn't work for me since at least 2 Mac OS major updates, 2 years or longer... ^^
Same for iOS.

 

[cmChimera]

They are finicky, but swipe to go back gesture is implemented in the 26.1 Beta 3 app. 1.6.1.38

 

[Sowelu]

Can anyone confirm if Apple fixed any of the endless bugs that plague the Music App with this latest beta? Or is it safe to assume that if it's been a bug for years and years, Apple just doesn't give a **** anymore?

I am sitting here trying to distract my mind and relax while creating a new Winter playlist and every single time I delete a song from a sub-playlist while batching, every damn folder within the Music App collapses. Every single one. I have to scroll and scroll, close a few (knowing it's going to happen again) just so that I can see what the hell I am doing as I am moving songs from one to another. What was supposed to be a relaxing moment has turned into frustration because Apple refuses to get their **** together.

Is this the dreck that their millions of subscribers are using, or is the app somehow stable for those who stream? Are none of these millions of users complaining? Or are the masses just throwing rented songs in random playlists and hitting shuffle? I've submitted so many feedback entries as I am sure many of us have in this thread.

After all this time, the basics are not getting fixed and they keep making the UX worse, and for what? Why do I have to click on anything but the playlist name and or cover image to edit them (though, it's better now with at least the edit icon). Why does the app open with either all folders closed of collapsed? Why does it almost never remember where you leave off?

Why is the iTunes Store so awkward to navigate and almost impossible to keep track of the browsing and purchasing journey you're on without the app just going back 5-6 pages in a jump at times? Why does one have to activate 'scrub mode' to scrub a song after honing in on and trying to grab the thin scrubber line? Why is the control bar sitting over your songs other than Apple's desire to showcase Liquid Glass despite there being a gigantic sea of empty space on top of the app?

The Music App is an absolute piece of garbage, and to think that this was the answer to the 'buggy and bloated' iTunes which worked perfectly, logically, and was incredibly stable compared to this mess. Apple needs to bring back the iTunes app for those of us who do not stream and have huge databases of owned music. I honestly cannot believe we are still left with this incredibly buggy, limiting and frustrating app as our only option for our entire music collection.

You would never think Apple was a trillion dollar company based on their software lately, and the Music App has been a disaster since its introduction. Whoever is in charge of this app should be fired 5 times over. F-ing ridiculous!

Sorry for the rant, but my god, this app is just the absolute worst, and it's the one I use the most within macOS. If there was an alternative app that would retain all my playlists, artwork and so on, and the ability to sync to my Apple devices, I'd start using it today.

 

[canyelles]

I would say it is definitely worse, lots of new bugs and they haven't fixed any old ones.
All they have done is make the UI worse.

Agree with everything you say. They must have trainees working on it.

I reported the folder opening bug earlier in this thread.

 

[Sowelu]

in 2007 I purchased via iTunes is Enigma "Seven Lives Many Faces" which sound bland lacking volume in th music
on Tahie, Music app. sound check off and ON


fooBar and my MacBook Air 2010 snow leopard is playing that album better!

"we are supposed to SUBSCRIBE......not own music"
, 2020-forever

Such an amazing album, but I am also a huge fan of Enigma and have been for decades. I also purchased this album (as well as the limited edition version) via iTunes when it was first released, and I also have the albums ripped from CDs using LAME, and the ripped albums do sound better. While the iTunes (purchased) version still sounds pretty good to my ears in terms of volume, there is a difference in sound levels, and I am not sure if I noticed this before Tahoe.

I wish there was a way to permanently amp up the volume on a song by song basis in the Music app, especially for older CD rips (for albums that were released before the recording industry started to over-amp most recordings in an effort to sound the loudest for radio and now streaming, in some cases, to a level of distortion). Sound check is not very reliable at this and amping up the sound in a song's options in Music only works if the song is played from the Music app.

I am sure there is a 3rd party app that does this, I used to use MicroWave to amp up sound levels and to edit the start and ending of some songs (for a more permanent solution to the built in options in iTunes/Music), but I don't think it's around anymore. I wonder if Audacity has this ability, I have to play around with it.

 

[Russell L]

Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but....."Join CD Tracks" seems to be missing. Just went to rip a CD (with Music 1.6.0.151) and wanted to join several tracks, but the option is missing completely and is nowhere to be found. 😡

 

[Sowelu]

I am not sure if this is a new bug, but while in 'Album' view, double-clicking any song on the selected album will only play the first song of the album. You have to use the control bar or keyboard to skip to and play the next song. I personally have not noticed this before Tahoe. I double-click each song, but only the first song plays every time.

Also, while on the topic of playing and skipping songs, I am using 'Alcove', which is a super cool app that turns the notch into a Dynamic Island-like menu that shows 'now playing', HUDs, and so on. So this is a workaround to quickly scrub songs, check time remaining, and so on, instead of the (frustrating to me) control bar.

There are several apps that repurpose the notch, but I find this one to be super smooth and clean. It feels native to the OS and very polished. You don't need to have the Music app in view to see what's playing and to scrub, skip and so on, and of course it works from any audio source. I love the little spectrum analyzer that can use the color of the artwork of the song that's playing:

 

[axel07]

I am not sure if this is a new bug, but while in 'Album' view, double-clicking any song on the selected album will only play the first song of the album. You have to use the control bar or keyboard to skip to and play the next song. I personally have not noticed this before Tahoe. I double-click each song, but only the first song plays every time.

Also, while on the topic of playing and skipping songs, I am using 'Alcove', which is a super cool app that turns the notch into a Dynamic Island-like menu that shows 'now playing', HUDs, and so on. So this is a workaround to quickly scrub songs, check time remaining, and so on, instead of the (frustrating to me) control bar.

There are several apps that repurpose the notch, but I find this one to be super smooth and clean. It feels native to the OS and very polished. You don't need to have the Music app in view to see what's playing and to scrub, skip and so on, and of course it works from any audio source. I love the little spectrum analyzer that can use the color of the artwork of the song that's playing:

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It's been around for a quiet long time, album view is buggy af and they don't even care to fix it 🤡

 

[nickdalzell1]

Anybody ever have AutoMix and AutoPlay vanish entirely? Last weekend it did for me but only on Tahoe. It continued to work fine on iOS 26, but in Tahoe the options and settings for them vanished leaving only 'crossfade' as the transition. Rebooting the Mac didn't fix it, neither did disconnecting/reconnecting to WiFi. Ultimately I force-quit Music and a few hours later re-opened it and the features returned.

Also had this weird bug during that event where over half my library (which is synced to the cloud; all purchased music combined with old Napster-era MP3s I uploaded to iCloud ages ago, and a few exclusive to Apple Music) tracks were 'greyed out' for seemingly no reason. Attempting to play those tracks didn't even give an error, it just skipped to the next 'un-greyed' track. On iPhone, those tracks produced an error stating 'This track isn't being synced. Turn on 'sync library' in Music Settings' which was odd since that feature was already enabled. Those tracks were playable the instant the AutoMix and AutoPlay features returned to my Mac. Only thing I did was upgrade from an iPhone 12 to a 17 Pro...

 

[cmChimera]

Product Manager of Apple Music doing an AMA on Reddit. Please ask your questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1oihbx7/hey_there_im_adam_a_product_manager_at_apple

 

[amancalledsun]

Product Manager of Apple Music doing an AMA on Reddit. Please ask your questions.

So many of the comments are "move the play controls and now playing info back to the top on Mac". 🤣

 

[ErikGrim]

Product Manager of Apple Music doing an AMA on Reddit. Please ask your questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1oihbx7/hey_there_im_adam_a_product_manager_at_apple

Did he actually answer any questions?

 

[navaira]

Did he actually answer any questions?

Judging by the fact that the post and the user are deleted, I don’t think that was really an Apple employee…

 

[cmChimera]

Did he actually answer any questions?

They postponed it to next month lol

 

[cmChimera]

Judging by the fact that the post and the user are deleted, I don’t think that was really an Apple employee…

No he is a real employee, they just delayed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/1ojms75/the_ama_with_apple_musics_product_manager_has

 

[Disassociative]

Does anyone else have an issue with music cutting in by half a second or so whenever selecting a song to play with the equaliser enabled? The next song(s) play fine until you pause it or pick another song to play.

Has been an issue since macOS 26 and persists in 26.0.1 and all the 26.1 betas so far.

 

[Aggedor]

Don't know if someone else has reported this yet, but 26.1 fixes the issue with Apple Music whereby the spacebar didn't toggle play/pause. Just tested now and it's back to working as it should be!

 

[cmChimera]

Annoyingly, the play next/add to queue options are not showing up for albums in library.

 

[Tommy2]

Go artist and go to album have completely disappeared in Tahoe. What good is a "Discovery" station if I can't actually go to the artist or album? It's not like you can even do a simple copy and paste in Music. The song tab seems to contain is except it is always, always greyed out. Very close to going back to Spotify.

 

[amancalledsun]

The Terminal command for moving the Now Playing bar back to the top doesn't work in Tahoe 26.1. Thanks Apple. You broke Music, and then broke the only fix that made Music tolerable on Tahoe.

 

[macrlz9]

Previously, the Column Browser results would also filter when searching.
In this example, only Lady Gaga, Steve Miller Band, & Sugar Ray should be showing under Artists. This isn't new to macOS 26, it started a while ago. Possibly with macOS 15 or even 14.

 

[whitby]

I have been posting this elsewhere, but thought I would try here as no one but me seems to have the issue.

It concerns using AirPlay speakers in Music under Tahoe. If I select Airplay speakers and uncheck the computer’s (in this case an M1 iMac or Mac Mini built in speakers or speakers configured as default under the Sound option in Settings), the music will correctly play through the selected speakers and not through the computer’s default speakers. However if I close Music and then go back later, when I play music it plays through the computer speakers (which are not selected) and not the selected Airplay speakers. In order to get it to play via the Airplay speakers, I need to deselect the AirPlay speakers, it then defaults to the computer’s speakers, and reselect them to get music to be played through the AirPlay speakers. I had no issues with Sequoia and earlier OS versions.

This occurs on my M1 iMac, M4 Pro Mac Mini, and all laptops running Tahoe Mac OS v26, v26.01, v26.1.

 

[amancalledsun]

I have been posting this elsewhere, but thought I would try here as no one but me seems to have the issue.

It concerns using AirPlay speakers in Music under Tahoe. If I select Airplay speakers and uncheck the computer’s (in this case an M1 iMac or Mac Mini built in speakers or speakers configured as default under the Sound option in Settings), the music will correctly play through the selected speakers and not through the computer’s default speakers. However if I close Music and then go back later, when I play music it plays through the computer speakers (which are not selected) and not the selected Airplay speakers. In order to get it to play via the Airplay speakers, I need to deselect the AirPlay speakers, it then defaults to the computer’s speakers, and reselect them to get music to be played through the AirPlay speakers. I had no issues with Sequoia and earlier OS versions.

This occurs on my M1 iMac, M4 Pro Mac Mini, and all laptops running Tahoe Mac OS v26, v26.01, v26.1.

I used to have a similar issue in iTunes on Monterey on an Intel Mac Mini when using AirPlay speakers, although not identical. Basically it would drop the connection to the AirPlay speakers if the computer was idle for long enough and not playing. Restarting iTunes was not enough to fix it; I had to also toggle back to computer speakers then back to AirPlay after restarting iTunes. Very occasionally even then it wouldn't reconnect but required me to reboot the Mac in order for it to reestablish the connection.

I suspect the problem is with AirPlay itself; it's buggy and laggy at the best of times.

 

[whitby]

I used to have a similar issue in iTunes on Monterey on an Intel Mac Mini when using AirPlay speakers, although not identical. Basically it would drop the connection to the AirPlay speakers if the computer was idle for long enough and not playing. Restarting iTunes was not enough to fix it; I had to also toggle back to computer speakers then back to AirPlay after restarting iTunes. Very occasionally even then it wouldn't reconnect but required me to reboot the Mac in order for it to reestablish the connection.

I suspect the problem is with AirPlay itself; it's buggy and laggy at the best of times.

I wouldn't mind so much if it hadn't worked perfectly on Sequoia. It is the fact that they seem to have broken a perfectly working system for no apparent reason, apart from carelessness and poor quality design and coding. A feature these days of rushed Apple design/coding and large teams that probably do not communicate with each other (or so it would seem). It seems that it is the new way of the world for Apple as they sink down to Microsoft levels of coding competence. 'It just works' is no longer true and far from the current ethos.