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

[AlphaCentauri]

Yup.

Same. Not always, but often.

 

[n-evo]

Same. Not always, but often.

No idea what triggers it. I just does at some point. Doesn’t have to be after a restart either.

 

[AlphaCentauri]

No idea what triggers it. I just does at some point. Doesn’t have to be after a restart either.

Same here. At least cover artwork is showing for all of my albums again.

 

[MacGizmo]

...It is extremely irritating.

That pretty much sums-up the entire Music app from top-to-bottom.

 

[68000/030]

No idea what triggers it. I just does at some point. Doesn’t have to be after a restart either.

If you quit the app with main window on screen - it will remember it's size.
If you close the window and then quit the app - it will then launch with the default small window size.

 

[n-evo]

If you quit the app with main window on screen - it will remember it's size.
If you close the window and then quit the app - it will then launch with the default small window size.

Ah good to know. Not that we should.

 

[leniwsek]

Hello, how is Tahoe 26.2 does it change album artwork / mismatch? Or it's running fine for local files? I have purchased music from bandcamp and would hate if Apple changed my custom album arts.

 

[leniwsek]

Still have this issue with Beta 2 of 26.2. Hope they will fix it quickly. Made a report to Apple when this issue occurred with Beta 1.

Is this problem still going on?

 

[leniwsek]

26.2 and Music is still a trash that full of random bugs 🤡 unbearable to use, especially for local libraries 🫤

Does it change custom album arts and mismatch them or metadata?

 

[68000/030]

No need to ask thrice.
I didn't notice it changing something when not asked to, but it definitely lost the ability to download correct album cover. More often than not it gets something completely different than it should

 

[bigpoppa]

No need to ask thrice.
I didn't notice it changing something when not asked to, but it definitely lost the ability to download correct album cover. More often than not it gets something completely different than it should

The fix for me was to uncheck automatically update album artwork in Apple Music’s preferences. Had the same issue for years.

 

[leniwsek]

The fix for me was to uncheck automatically update album artwork in Apple Music’s preferences. Had the same issue for years.

I have it unchecked already, I upload custom art work through MP3 tag so it won't affect my files when updating to newest macos?

 

[JUMA55]

I have it unchecked already, I upload custom art work through MP3 tag so it won't affect my files when updating to newest macos?

I've done something like 40,000 songs from 2,100 albums. I've also made tons of playlists and the last thing I want an OS update or whatever is to screw the the metadata/album art. Here's what I do:

Go into the Music folder under your Home Folder. Copy the Music folder, which on my iMac is red, to an external drive. Go to this folder in your user Library "/Containers/com.apple.APMArtworkAgent/Data/Documents" and copy it to an external drive. Update, rebuild from scratch or whatever to your system. When finished delete the new "red" Music folder and copy the Music folder back from the external. Go into your Library and delete the container folder above and copy everything back from your external. Open the "red" Music folder. You should see three folder: Media, Music Library and Previous Libraries. If there's anything under Previous Libraries open it. Everything should be back to normal. And keep update album art off.

The only serious issue I have with the current versions of macOS and iOS is the artwork on my iPhone is a mess, but it's fine on my two iPads. To keep Apple from syncing from my iPhone back to my iMac and destroying my album art, go into Settings - Music on your iPhone. Make sure Sync Library, Automatic Downloads, Show Apple Music and Download Dolby Atmos are all OFF.

Good luck. The Music app really is crap.

 

[Tranel]

Is this problem still going on?

No, it is fixed since weeks/months.

 

[leniwsek]

No, it is fixed since weeks/months.

So if I update it won't cause me issues with artwork on songs being mismatched on iphone or music library on mac? Because on ios 26 plus the sequioa that I have it's all going fine (knocking on wood)