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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting (Tahoe)
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I am not sure if this is a new bug or not as I can no longer keep up with this hot mess of an app, but when viewing a playlist in Album View which initially looks like this...
...after selecting any album within an Album View playlist, then going back (arrow back) to all albums view, you are met with this:
No albums.
Toggling to Song View then back to Album View doesn't help. The only way to fix this is to exit the app then re-open. How can a gigantic bug like this even exist? Unless I am a moron and missing something here?
...after selecting any album within an Album View playlist, then going back (arrow back) to all albums view, you are met with this:
No albums.
Toggling to Song View then back to Album View doesn't help. The only way to fix this is to exit the app then re-open. How can a gigantic bug like this even exist? Unless I am a moron and missing something here?
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This bug exist since first Tahoe beta 🤡🤡🤡 same like you can't play a song of your choice in album view and need manually skip to desired track from first song through entire album 🤡🤡🤡
Just make Music app exclusively for streaming and bring back iTunes for local files, coz at this point it's just unbearable to use on a daily basis 💀
I've already reported this in Feedback.
Basically, the Album View only works the first time you click on a playlist. You can get it back (for one more viewing only!) by changing the sort option to another sort-by. But as it only shows the albums once, this doesn't really help much. Just an observation.
It's a shame no one at Apple actually uses the Music app on MacOS.
At this point, there my be developers working on the Music app that weren't alive yet to own CDs.
Conversely, vinyl is back. Maybe they can add an option to Join Vinyl Tracks.
While there are so many bugs with the Music app on Tahoe as many of you have reported here, especially for local library and UI (keyboard navigation with column browser is a mess actually...), I found yet another bug that surfaced with Tahoe 26.2 beta (Music 1.6.2.50).
Syncing local library to iPhone won't transfer artworks correctly. All synced tracks after Tahoe 26.2 beta lacks artworks on iPhone, while on macOS's Music app artworks are there. Deleting caches won't work here.
Syncing local library to iPhone won't transfer artworks correctly. All synced tracks after Tahoe 26.2 beta lacks artworks on iPhone, while on macOS's Music app artworks are there. Deleting caches won't work here.
Syncing music to iPhone will randomly skip tracks.
Opening an album from smart playlist and clicking any song will always begin playing from the first track on the list.
Opening an album from smart playlist and clicking any song will always begin playing from the first track on the list.
Indeed, Apple Music's Sound Check seems to not be working anymore in Tahoe (26.1), at least not when playing my own MP3 library. Pretty annoying. I constantly need to adjust the volume with just about each new song.
I've submitted a bug report to Apple, hoping it will be picked up soon, and be fixed in the next Tahoe update.
I really wish they would do this.
Bring back iTunes for local playback and syncing users only.
Yes please!
I was about to say something similar.
I made a new Music library just to see if it would fix this (by doing a volume re-analysis of all tracks) and it has not.
Sound check doesn't work correctly, turned on or off.
😑
I updated to 26.1 on my MBP ProMax 4 yesterday and I wish I hadn't.macOS 26.1 Tahoe - Music 1.6.1.44
macOS 26.1b4 Tahoe - Music 1.6.1.41
macOS 26.1b2 Tahoe - Music 1.6.1.34
macOS 26.1b1 Tahoe - Music 1.6.1.22
macOS 26.0b8 Tahoe - Music 1.6.0.151
macOS 26.0b4 Tahoe - Music 1.6.0.134
macOS 26.0b3 Tahoe - Music 1.6.0.124
macOS 26.0b2 Tahoe - Music 1.6.0.115
macOS 26.0b1 Tahoe - Music 1.6.0.97
macOS 15.4 - 15.5 Sequoia - Music 1.5.1.24
macOS 15.1b7+8 Sequoia - Music 1.5.0.174
macOS 15.1b5 Sequoia - Music 1.5.0.170
macOS 15.1b2 Sequoia - Music 1.5.0.141
macOS 15.0b1 Sequoia - Music 1.5.0.107
macOS 14.5 Sonoma - Music 1.4.5.36
macOS 13 Ventura 13.4b3 - Music 1.3.5.6
Big Sur 11.5 - Music 1.1.5.74
Catalina 10.15.5 - Music 1.0.5.14
Missing Features
- Status bar is gone: It's still in the view menu with a brand new icon no less, but showing or hiding it does nothing.
- Timed (karaoke) lyrics
- Sing
- Album/song view: Can't view albums in place. Music has a separate page for every album. Artist view can view them in a list.
- No option for setting smaller grid size in album view. - previously in iTunes you could have 13 albums on each row, in Music limited to only 6 per row, makes scrolling through library tedious. (Up from 5 in previous versions, so at least an improvement)
- Now Playing - Can't view a bigger version of the album art from Now playing. (previously in iTunes you could cmd + click to open a bigger artwork. This was separate from the mini player which wouldn't resize quite large and won't open in iTunes full screen) - alternative is ctrl + click for menu and select "Show Album In Library"
- Mini Player - "No Search Field" - as existed in iTunes - "History" is there, can toggle between "History" and "Playing Next" - but no search option.
- Sync Play Info - from iOS device back to Music App on Mac: Some users report that "Play Counts" do not update / sync back to Music app on Mac as was the case in iTunes - this may be an issue on the iOS side - see post 276 for more info . . .
- XML library is no longer automatically generated - the XML file was for "sharing info" to other apps (it can still be created via "Export Library") – missing this can cause issues for some DJ software and sound system apps like sonos etc. - creating a manual XML file can be a useful work around ( see file menu)
- Playlist Rename - No way to rename playlists inline from the sidebar - work around - can be changed in the playlist header on the same screen. Possibly removed so you can double click playlists to start playing from sidebar (which still doesn't line up with how Finder works)
- Artwork for new music - Ripping old CD's into "Music" Still does not always add "Non Apple" Artwork - may require manually adding artwork
- No Visual Feedback When Adding Songs to Queue - There's no indication that a song has been added to Up Next Queue at all. Previously there was an animation showing the song being added, and the glyph would glow blue indicating that there were upcoming songs. Both of these indicators have been removed.
- Importing tracks progress (from CD or Finder) is no longer showing
- Join CD-tracks options missing
- Internet radio (old style streaming stations) - see apple support info - alternative = use a stand alone app such as "MyTuner". Streaming with direct URL (cmd-U) still supported.
"Search Filter Field" for Local Library "Songs / Column View" and "Playlists" is not visible by default-> must manually invoke "Show Filter Field" (menu < view< Show Filter Field (short cut = cmd + alt + F ), or press the filter icon View attachment 2015804 - (The open field still does not persist between switching playlists )OH MY GOD THEY FINALLY RESTORED THIS!!!Missing Icons- iPad version of Music has icons for playlists, macOS does notNow it does!Gestures missing in Apple Music- (compare to iTunes Store where gestures still work - I guess their solution was to remove gestures from the iTunes Store as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Bugs
- Artwork Handling and Bugs - Artwork handling is just terrible. They just don't show up for a lot of songs — sometimes it happens in the Songs view, sometimes in the Album view that pops up when Cmd+L, sometimes in the mini player up top. All the artworks are like 1800px max (usually 1400px)
- After a restart of the app the sorting changes from "Album by Artist/Year" to "Album" in smart playlists.
- Some of the advanced playback features (for example Sound Check, Equalizer settings,
Volume Adjust and Start/Stop) are not working when AirPlay playback is enabled.- On a wired (Ethernet) connection with WiFi off, try selecting an AirPlay output in Music. The primary network connection will immediately drop out and take some time to reestablish itself. Any network traffic (e-mail, file transfers, etc.) will be interrupted. (Holdover bug from iTunes)
- Returning to a song you are playing in the main library (Songs) with cmd-L is now impossible as it displays it as part of an album always - even if it is not part of an album / the only song. Previously would return to the place in the list.
- Songs that are matched, but have been removed from the iTunes Store library for whatever reason (usually older compilations that have had songs taken off them when licensing has expired) will get stuck on download and cause the entire download queue to stop until they are manually stopped. These songs can not be removed from the library with Music. A workaround is to search for the song in Music on an iOS device and remove it there.
- Quitting while downloading tracks will cause a beachball and take a long time
- Turning on AirPlay network cuts off ALL audio, including the intended streaming.
- Crossfade / Automix does not work if Lossless playback is enabled
- Turning on Collaboration will sometimes create a copy of the playlist for some reason
- The song view uses a smaller artwork and old style buttons, making it inconsistent with other views
- Playback stutters when scrubbing timeline on streaming Apple Music tracks, local tracks are fine
- Deleting a playlist causes the playlist view to jump, likely because it is AGAIN opening the folders
- In full screen mode the traffic light icons overlap the Search text in the sidebar when you uncover the menu bar
- When editing tags inline in songs view, using arrow keys to move your cursor changes the song instead
- Music videos show up as black
- In Playlist View, 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. Seems to be fixed as of 26.1b1
- '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. Seems to be fixed as of 26.1b1
- 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. Seems to be fixed as of 26.1b1
- No Longer can disable viewing "Apple Music" in left Side Bar: as of Monterey you cannot disable viewing "Apple Music" at the top of the left side bar - a waste of screen if you are not subscribed to monthly subscription of "Apple Music"
- Playlist/
albumsscroll positions are now retained if you switch away from them. Clicking them more than once returns to the top- Can edit/add "work and movement" for a single track (for example Classical Music Tracks): Click the title button to edit.
- Mini Player now retract to its original location gracefully when a lyric/playlist pane is toggled, when initiated from a lower section of the screen.
- Music window does immediately receive focus when clicked. There is no longer a noticeable delay around half second before the window gets the focus.
- Genres now autopopulate when editing in Song view.
- Column widths in playlists now persists between launches
- When switching between Get Info windows, the selected field does not persist
- "Show Artwork" in View < "Show View Options" CMD+J - Disabling "Show artwork" in Column/Song view does not persist between launches - re-appears at next launch and often displays generic icons - why show artwork if the icon is generic - waste of screen space - Fixed in Music Version 1.1.6.12
Rating stars in list view are not retina! How?Fixed in 1.2.0.146- Display Bar Missing (affected by language selection) - Some "French" language users report that Music can crash (mini player) and "top bar / player is blank" in album view - see screen shot post 194 - workaround = switch APP language back to English - check - then back to "french language" - see screen shot post 213 (not reported for a while, presumably fixed)
- Inconsistency in star ratings, some are coloured and low res, some retina and non-coloured for no apparent reason:
View attachment 1712454- Mouse clicks in the song list view will often get stuck, fail to register, or cause brief "move" actions instead of playing tracks
- Misaligned play/pause button introduced in 1.2.0.130, bit better but still misaligned in 146. Fixed in 1.2.0.158.
Beachball often appears when using the new search.- I can’t seem to reproduce this anymore on my 110K+ library- Listen Now
doesn't load (new in 1.1.0.234)loads very slowly / does not load for some / crashes Music for some- Mini M1 with Apple Magic Mouse. Start Music and the mouse is unresponsive for about a minute
- Removing lots of songs from the queue using the red minus button, the button disappears when you do it too quickly
- When you enter the miniplayer it mutes the music for a split second
- Artwork for the currently playing song might be incorrectly displayed in the Music window. (128688400)
Main Search Box defaults to Apple Music- when using the main search box (left / top) to search "local library" search defaults / displays results on Apple Music even when there is already purchased music in local library. Fortunately the state of which library / store you searched last now seems to persist.Main Search Box disappears- The search field, being part of the sidebar, disappears up with the scroll making it useless for searching playlists lower down on the listSearch field is now always at the top of the window- Dragging tracks into a playlist from Finder to the top, or anywhere within a playlist, adds the tracks to the bottom of a playlist instead
- Moving tracks in synced playlist will often put the track right back where you moved it from
Opening lyrics while the filter field is open will remove the filter field and any input in it. Data loss!merged with filter field lineA new playlist is not created takes a long time to appear when creating from an album in Apple Music. To reproduce, click the "More" (the three dots (•••) button on an album in browsing mode of Apple Music, then select "Add to Playlist," which then provides a long list of playlists, including "New Playlist.". Takes a long time with a "Creating playlist in Library" in activitiy. Causes error 9,039.Resolved as of music 1.1.2.28Double clicking a track for the first time will sometimes skip the trackStars don't show up at all under Artist in Songs list when app is open in Dark mode.Checkboxes in Songs view are showing as checked even it's actually unchecked when selected.Cmd+L in Songs view doesn't scroll the list to show the song but instead opens a whole new view that covers up the songs list. Does nothing in full screen mode. (Works if song is playing from a different playlist)Cmd-F no longer works to activate search. (new in 1.1.0.186) Cmd-F now takes you to the Apple Music Categories page for some reason (new in 1.1.0.243)Music app will randomly stop registering double clicks on a song to play. I have to use the "Play" button when you hover over the song number. If I quit and reopen the app double clicking works for a while and then stops again.Shuffle and Repeat Icons don't work when clicked (new in 1.1.0.208)Shuffle and Repeat icons don't appear until you click Shuffle in a playlist.Random UI bugs. It will lag, sometimes flash when going between albums, and the animations are sometimesvery abrupt.Playlist folders are always expanded when restarting the app.Genius results can’t be updated right now. An Unknown error occured (18004) (4001).The results box not appearing properlyRight clicking on an item within the “Browse” and “Listen Now” content areas sometimes opens the contextual menu at a random location.When I am playing a song in the list view and then I click Controls -> Go to Current Song (cmd + L) it changes to the album view (and goes back to the song view after clicking on the back arrow). When I do the same thing playing a song from a smart playlist, it remains in the song view.Play icon is cut off- When in full screen and you are trying to add a cover from your photo library, that immovable modal goes under the immovable edit modal.
- Not persisting between launches:
- Playlist folder states: Folders will always open after a restart, closing them does not persist
- If you were in a playlist inside a folder prior to quitting, Music will open up blank with no library or playlist selected
Issues
- Playlists do not retain view and column width settings after converting iTunes library.
- Play list Header
Can’t remove playlist header in Song view. This seems to be intended behaviour, which sucks.This is the same as it was in iTunes - and in Music, this is where to edit the Playlist title / name now that you can no longer edit it from the side bar- AppleScript / Scrobblers / Keyboard remote apps addressing “iTunes.app” no longer working. Last.fm scrobblers for Music now exist.
- Deleting multiple playlists is a hassle. Deleting one at a time causes beachballs. Extremely annoying if you run into the duplicated playlist bug. Why can't we select more than one at a time?
- Loading the library can take a long time, especially after a force quit. Even on SSD.
- Updating artist artwork takes a long time / lots of CPU.
- Font weight and size for differencing primary/secondary text are extremely minimal. Harder to read and scan - especially on non-retina screens.
- "Show Only Downloaded Music" option is now universal. Not per playlist.
- Transport bar only shows time elapsed/remaining when hovering. Transport bar is now only 1px high by default.
- No download all automatically option, I have a smart playlist just for this
- Even if a playlist is set to download, adding new songs to it doesn't automatically download the new songs
UI conventions from iOS are unwelcome, especially the slide-in lyrics / playing next panes which covers content and hides the filter and sort buttons. Slide in panes move content instead of covering it now, but only in playlist view. Frustratingly inconsistent.Apple Music is slow to load and navigate - even on very fast connections / 2020 iMacs. – This seems to have improved significantly with 12.2.2.x but is still not as instant as you'd want it to be.- Filter field state DOES NOT PERSIST between switching playlists.
- Shuffle - Un-Shuffle Confusion - This is the difference between inactive / active state of "shuffle" and "repeat" - shuffle indicated by shuffle icon turning blue when active (not easy to notice if on or off) see post 226 shuffle info - "repeat" is a similar 3 way toggle on the right side
Apple's attempt to solve this issue is to now add a dot below the active icon:
- Can now multi-select songs in Apple Music search (though you have to be in the album view)
- Scrolling seems to be fixed, at least on Apple Silicon
- When viewing all songs, clicking the column header to sort but that doesn't work, you have to spam click it until it responds (Fixed)
Troubleshooting
- To rebuild your library from iTunes:
Hold option when launching, select your old iTunes library in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl
- OR: try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Music.plist then
- Move your music out of the Music folder and delete everything left in it.
- cd ~/Library and remove any folders that have Music or iTunes in the name
- cd ~/Library/Caches and delete any folders with Music or iTunes in the name
- Reboot
- Put your music folders back where you had them before. You may need to Import your music again to let the Music app organize them in a way that makes sense to it
- OR: This Applescript will force playlist re-build from original "iTunes Music Library.xml"
https://github.com/dimecho/iTunes-Catalina- Music Store can be enabled under view and in preferences.
- Home Sharing has moved to the Sharing pane in System Preferences (Media Sharing)
Some sync issues for older iPods fixed by installing ItunesAccesshttps://forums.macrumors.com/threads/has-anyone-gotten-an-ipod-shuffle-2nd-gen-to-work.2196567/- Switching all your playlists (back) to song view is quicker if you add a keyboard shortcut (System Prefs -> Keyboard) to this View item:
View attachment 870422- Doug Adams have started updating all his scripts for Music
- You may need to connect the remote app manually and not with home sharing:
open remote app => tap settings in upper right corner => add iTunes library => in the music app in your Mac: look for the remote app symbol (arrow with your iPhone name) and enter the 4 digits- Music always starting in full screen mode? Close Music, run
defaults delete com.apple.Music
in Terminal, and reopen Music (and re-set your preferences).- The new Favourite function that replaces "love" is for AM/iCloud libraries only. Continue to use the old rating function for your local only library.
- If you are not a fan of this lobotomised iTunes, your best solution might be to just install iTunes again. Yes, this still works in Sonoma!
New welcome features:
This article is a summary of the failings of Apple Music as a whole, with suggestions of fixes.
- New
topbottom bar- New Listen Now screen:View attachment 926401
- Real-time lyrics in pane, mini-player and full screen mode (1.0.4.89)
- New Full screen mode activated from mini-player zoom button or keyboard shortcut
Thanks to @Internet Enzyme for discovering and screenshots- 1.0.5.9 allows you to two-finger scroll the volume and track bars.
- Selection outlines now appearing when hovering over the lyrics and upcoming buttons, however nothing yet for the play/pauses buttons which also have outlines in Podcasts.
- Animated playlist artwork in Listen Now are now present, the same as iOS
- Mute and full volume glyphs on the volume slider are now selectable and change colour when clicked
- 1.1.0.186 has the iOS 14 icon
View attachment 936556- You can now add descriptions to Playlists (from 1.1.2.25)
- Apple Music backend rebuilt with native views (from 1.2.2.23)
- Filter and sort icons (from 1.3.x)
- New Favourite function (✩) replacing Love for adding to library and recommendation algorithm in line with iOS 17.1 (from 1.4.x). Your favourited tracks show up in the new Favourites playlist. This is an AM/iCloud library only feature. Use the old rating function for your local only library.
- You can now go to the page of any artists and select "Suggest Less" to hear less of that artist in mixes (previously only available for individual songs)
- From 1.4.2.53 (14.2) On launch, AM no longer has to wait for the library to load before you can interact with the app. Very welcome improvement!
- From 1.4.3.17 (14.3) Favourite playlist and Collaborative Playlists are added
- From Tahoe DJ like (stretch and beatmatch) Automix added. Splash screen informing you it's on the first time.
- Icons for most menu items
- I still can't believe they added back the peristent Find field!!
Wiki post: everyone is welcome to add to and edit.
Connectivity is sporadic. Sometimes a VPN is required, sometimes a VPN makes connecting impossible. Inconsistent, annoying, poor performance.
Music app...moving the play bar to the bottom of the screen is a horrible design decision. Someone found a workaround in 26 but with 26.1 that workaround has been disabled. Shame on you Apple.
All apps seem to load more slowly than they did in Sequoia.
Apple, what are you doing?? Why would you create software that hobbles users? Is there a way to go back to Sequoia?
If you’ve made a backup prior to installing Tahoe, you can restore from that backup. Only M5 MBPs are stuck on Tahoe (sorry to everyone who got one of those
)I backed up on Time Machine before updating...I will give it a go.If you’ve made a backup prior to installing Tahoe, you can restore from that backup. Only M5 MBPs are stuck on Tahoe (sorry to everyone who got one of those
Hope all goes well! IF I upgrade to Tahoe, I’m going to make multiple backups first… I have a Mac Mini I use as a file server, updated that to Tahoe and let’s say the experience didn’t make me eager to update my laptop.
26.2 Beta 2 thankfully restores the ability to have local albums play next/add to queue.
It's been 84 years... 🤡
You still can't play a song of your choice in album view, let's pray they will fix it in next beta 😂
All went well...Tahoe is awful...they will have to make significant changes for me to try it again.
I use a programme called Yate by 2manyrobots, which analyses tracks and can add sound check values based on either album or track gain. I use album gain. It uses EBU R 128. I’ve no issues with the sound levels in Music now.
Not sure what algorithm the Music app uses but Apple’s sound check values have always been awful to me.
Has anyone else had the issue with using the Remote App not adding tracks to Up Next/Continue playing?
If I select a track in a playlist it won't add the subsequent tracks to Up next, the same for a track on an album. I also can't add a single track to Up Next with the remote app.
The only way I can play an album with the remote app is from the Play button at the top of an album, not from one of the tracks in the middle of the album (it only plays that track).
Shuffle will add it's playlist to Up Next but everything else is only a single track.
It all works perfectly in the Music app on the desktop, it's just the remote app and has only happened since Tahoe (it's still in 26.1). This is on 2 Mac Minis, an M1 & an M4.
I have reported it but was wondering if anyone else has the same?
If I select a track in a playlist it won't add the subsequent tracks to Up next, the same for a track on an album. I also can't add a single track to Up Next with the remote app.
The only way I can play an album with the remote app is from the Play button at the top of an album, not from one of the tracks in the middle of the album (it only plays that track).
Shuffle will add it's playlist to Up Next but everything else is only a single track.
It all works perfectly in the Music app on the desktop, it's just the remote app and has only happened since Tahoe (it's still in 26.1). This is on 2 Mac Minis, an M1 & an M4.
I have reported it but was wondering if anyone else has the same?