Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting

[mikzn]

Hi,

I've seen that issue #28 Play icon is cut off is corrected

So, I'm not sure if that's the same issue, but I lost all the buttons at the top "Play", "Forward", etc. and the display of the currently playing music as shown on the below screenshot.

Is that issue #28? What's the fix? Thanks.

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could it be the same as Bugs - Issue number 3

3 Display Bar Missing - 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

 

[Yoms]

could it be the same as Bugs - Issue number 3

3 Display Bar Missing - 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

Thanks a lot!!! It worked.

Just a precision: once you've switched to EN, then you really need to replace EN by FR. If you simply delete EN language personalisation in the settings hoping to rely solely on the system language (which is FR in my case), the bug will reappear. You need to set it - and keep it - in FR until bug is corrected.

 

[Jack Neill]

Is this app have smoother scrolling on a M1? Its a rather laggy still on 1.1.1.3. Some days its snappy, others its really slow. Haven't figured out the issue.

 

[Sowelu]

Not sure if this has been mentioned (I don't see it listed on the first Wiki Post)... but it looks like there is a huge bug/issue when importing a playlist from Data DVD into Music in Big Sur.

I have a MacBook Air (M1) and was going to use the Music App on this Mac to house just my completed playlists as the main source for my Sonos system (Sonos does not handle huge libraries well, so I wanted just my finalized curated playlists in this music library).

So, I burned the first playlist to disc via the Music app on my main Mac running Catalina (which I always do), and then proceeded to import this playlist into the new MacBook Air running Big Sur. The process is simple and straightforward, you create a new playlist, go to the disc on the side bar, select all and drag all songs, or drag the disc icon to the newly created playlist and the songs copy over, in tact and in playlist order, with the embedded artwork.

Using this one playlist as an example, for some reason, out of 155 songs, only 104 of them are showing up in the playlist. However, all 155 songs are showing up in my Music Library under 'Songs'. So all 155 songs are actually importing from the disc, but only 104 are showing up in the playlist.

Does anyone know what can be causing this? Has this happened to anyone else? I've got lots of playlists to import, so I hope that this is addressed in the next release, assuming this is a bug. Only placing a portion of the songs in the playlist from the source disc is defeating the purpose, as the order will be lost if I pull the rest in manually from the library. And I did a comparison between the songs that did import into the playlist vs those that did not, and there is no pattern. It's a mixture of MP3s, and iTunes (unprotected) purchased AAC files.

On top of this bug, the embedded artwork is not showing up unless the song is played. And, I don't see the 'ArtworkAgent' process running in the background either. So not only is my playlist incomplete, but there is no visible artwork showing in Playlist view.

I really do not understand why they felt the need to ruin the iTunes app. All of this stuff is so basic, and they literally broke it all while improving nothing and actually made the overall workflow worse.

I know that this process that I detailed is probably not used by many, but I am not sure how else to copy playlists from one Mac to another while keeping the song sequence, artwork, ratings and play count intact. It always worked flawlessly under iTunes (I've not tried this in Music under Catalina yet).

So, any chance that someone out there might know what might be causing this? This is a huge deal for me.

 

[Sowelu]

In case anyone is interested... I found a workaround to the playlist copy from disc issue that I detailed above. After playing around a bit, I discovered that if you highlight all songs from the disk and right click and choose 'add to playlist', all songs do import into the playlist. But, by doing this, I found another bug. Playlists created this way will disappear when you close and reopen the Music app. You have to manually create a new playlist after using the 'add to playlist' option, and copy all songs from the first playlist into the new manually created playlist in order for the playlist to stay put after exiting Music.

To successfully copy a playlist from an optical disc to Music in Big Sur - do the following:

1. Insert disc, click on it in the side bar to reveal the songs on the disk.
2. Click the header of first column twice to get your playlist sequence in the correct order.
3. Choose or enter 'select all' to highlight all songs.
4. Right click on highlighted songs, choose 'add to new playlist'.
5. Music will now create a playlist named 'Playlist' and will copy ALL songs to it.
6. Once the songs copy over and added to this generic playlist, create a new playlist (with a proper name).
7. Copy all songs from the initial generic playlist into this newly created playlist.
8. Delete the generic 'Playlist' playlist.

That's it! Just 8 steps to do what iTunes used to do in one drag of an icon! So easy, it 'just works!'

...unfortunately, the embedded artwork is still only visible when you play a song. There is no thumbnail preview in Playlist view and it doesn't look like the Music app is trying to create it (ArtworkAgent is not running at all). It's been several hours, and there are only 155 songs in my library at this moment, and the artwork folder in my user library is still empty.

It really is just shocking how such basic functionality was broken in the latest version of the Music app. I've never imported a playlist via optical disk in the Music app under Catalina since that's where all my playlists are made. I find the Music app in Big Sur is lacking and is more buggy than the version in Catalina. I am curious how the Big Sur Music app earned its version number. What was added or improved over the version in Catalina? Certainly not artwork management, efficiency, stability, options, functionality and so on.

Apple is really making it hard for those of us who do not just shuffle rented top 40 music via their Apple Music streaming service! Perhaps this is all part of the grand plan to phase us out.

 

[preset.presale]

Hello everybody,


I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but after going fast forward thru the thread i couldn't find anything about this:

Has anyone been lucky to change the album ratings ? I can change the song rating, but not the album rating. I've checked "Music Help" and it seems that there should be a way to do this (the normal way) but it is not working for me. The gesture is just acting like drag and drop of the song.

Some insight is highly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[mikzn]

Hello everybody,

I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but after going fast forward thru the thread i couldn't find anything about this:

Has anyone been lucky to change the album ratings ? I can change the song rating, but not the album rating. I've checked "Music Help" and it seems that there should be a way to do this (the normal way) but it is not working for me. The gesture is just acting like drag and drop of the song.

Some insight is highly appreciated.
Thank you.

Album Rating is based on the average of Song Ratings - same as it was in the past with iTunes

If you change the song ratings - it will change the Album Rating

 

[preset.presale]

Album Rating is based on the average of Song Ratings - same as it was in the past with iTunes

If you change the song ratings - it will change the Album Rating

You are right. But on Mojave you could also do an album rating without rating any songs.

After i migrated my library form Mojave to Big Sur i realised that i had some Album Ratings activated because of a sync bug with the iPhone.

Now i can't change the album rating manually.

Attached you have a screen shot of the problem. (Fratres Album is having rating problems)
Left column rating is song rating and right column rating is album rating.

 

[mikzn]

Yes - I see the issue with the "Fratres Album" - FWIW - none of the songs are rated yet on your screen shot - so you can rate the album globally - but once you start adjusting the song ratings - it should default back to an average of the song ratings.

FWIW - Mojave / iTunes - and Music / Big Sur - are the exact same - at least on my Mac's

 

[Traverse]

Not really Big Sur related, but even after all of these updates Apple still hasn't allowed chained smart playlists in iCloud Music Library. I had hoped when they redesigned the desktop Music app and retained that functionality that they would update the iCloud end as well. Oh well.

 

[preset.presale]

Yes - I see the issue with the "Fratres Album" - FWIW - none of the songs are rated yet on your screen shot - so you can rate the album globally - but once you start adjusting the song ratings - it should default back to an average of the song ratings.

FWIW - Mojave / iTunes - and Music / Big Sur - are the exact same - at least on my Mac's

Album rating doesn't average back to song rating as long as it was manually updated and my smart playlist are updating as they are already song rated because album rating is avraging song rating.
Apple is a true maze, labyrinth producer for their users. At least they are good at society games.
iTunes and Music app are the same and they are not at the same time Quantum super position at it's best.

Thank you anyway. I will search more to see if i can find a workaround.

 

[Klschmann]

I know this is a pretty niche case these days, but for folks who still manage local libraries and import content from outside of iTunes - are you seeing a good 20 second lag between importing music files and them showing up in the Music app? I never had an issue with this process in Catalina - it was pretty instantaneous. It works in Big Sur, there's just a good 20-25 second lag before files appear in the app.

Also, curious why all of my local music folders all updated the date modified column in Finder on a date I wasn't even on my computer. I now have hundreds of folders that say they were modified on November 23 at 2:56 when I was nowhere near my Mac on that date.

 

[VKondakoff]

Quick question: is there a way to make playlist header in list view a little bit smaller? (Can not find one...)

Thanks!

 

[skibummer]

Strange that the only thing with Intel architecture that runs on my M1 MacBook Air is the Visualizer in Music...

 

[balbobiggins]

Hi,
There's this weird bug where whenever I’m streaming on a site like Netflix or Prime on Safari or the Apple TV app, If I go to the music app when a video is playing, the display bar disappears along with the top menu bar and the dock. Sometimes if I’m on picture-on-picture mode, the video flickers or stops playing. I’m on an M1 MacBook Pro 8/512. When I take a screenshot it looks normal so I had to take a picture. I've looked around but haven't seen anything about this bug. Is this happening to others as well?

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Geez, I guess when you can't decide on one layout, just put every single pitch in the final version.

 

[tkermit]

Quick question: is there a way to make playlist header in list view a little bit smaller? (Can not find one...)

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Thanks!

WTF are they thinking?! With the Column browser visible, there's barely any space left for the actual tracks to be displayed...

 

[Alpaone]

Good news: Song volume does not get lowered a few seconds after playback anymore — Sound Check was causing the issue before, not the EQ settings. It's fixed as of Music app v1.1.0.282 on Big Sur 11.0.1 Beta 1. [...]

Weird.. I am still experiencing this issue on 1.1.2.28 (Big Sur 11.1)

 

[Mr. 123]

Does the new update of Big Sur add back the functionality of being able to Sort albums by year in album view in a playlist? Downloading the update right now!

 

[ErikGrim]

Music stays on 1.1.2.28 for 11.2b1 :/

 

[Mr. 123]

Can confirm that the playlist album view sort settings are still missing on 11.1... Still using Mojave and iTunes for my main library.

 

[La BESTIA]

Hey! This is pretty flaky, to be frank. None of the control keyboard shortcut keys is functional!!!

 

[chinchillas]

Hey! This is pretty flaky, to be frank. None of the control keyboard shortcut keys is functional!!!

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Not related, but what is the sunglasses app you're using? (top menu).

 

[mikzn]

Hey! This is pretty flaky, to be frank. None of the control keyboard shortcut keys is functional!!!

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FWIW - All those shortcuts work for me - they do look greyed out - but all work on Music 1.1.2.28

 

[z3sty]

Big Sur beta 11.2 makes the Music app so much snappier. It's like night and day holy ****.