Sound Check issues in Tahoe

[ChromeCrescendo]

I downloaded/installed macOS Tahoe last night

Since then, Sound Check in Apple Music has been useless

Some songs play super quietly while the next song is loud

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[Metin]

Same issue here since updating from MacOS Sequoia to Tahoe 26.1. I've tried deleting the Apple Music app's cache, and hope the volume equality will improve as a new cache is built, but so far I'm still encountering the volume differences…

1. Close the Apple Music app completely. Either right-click the application in the Dock and select Quit, or while in Music, select Music then Quit Music in the Menu Bar.
2. Open Finder, select Go then Go to Folder in the Menu Bar.
3. Enter the cache path ~/Library/Caches/ into the text box then click Go.
4. Find the Music Cache by opening the folder starting with com.apple.music.
5. Select the contents of the folder and move them to the Mac's Trash.
6. Empty the Trash by right-clicking the Trash icon in the dock followed by Empty Trash.
7. Restart your Mac.

 

[ChromeCrescendo]

Same issue here since updating from MacOS Sequoia to Tahoe 26.1. I've tried deleting the Apple Music app's cache, and hope the volume equality will improve as a new cache is built, but so far I'm still encountering the volume differences…

1. Close the Apple Music app completely. Either right-click the application in the Dock and select Quit, or while in Music, select Music then Quit Music in the Menu Bar.
2. Open Finder, select Go then Go to Folder in the Menu Bar.
3. Enter the cache path ~/Library/Caches/ into the text box then click Go.
4. Find the Music Cache by opening the folder starting with com.apple.music.
5. Select the contents of the folder and move them to the Mac's Trash.
6. Empty the Trash by right-clicking the Trash icon in the dock followed by Empty Trash.
7. Restart your Mac.

So, ultimately, this was not worth trying or, has it since improved?

 

[Metin]

So, ultimately, this was not worth trying or, has it since improved?

Nope, no improvement. 🫤 I'm currently using my iPhone's Music app to play my MP3 collection on my Bluetooth speakers, and hope that the MacOS Music's Sound Check function will be fixed in the next Tahoe update.

 

[Schnauzer World]

Is this fixed for anyone yet? One song is very quiet, the next one might be super loud. Tried the usual fixes, no go. Does rolling back to Sequoia fix the problem?

 

[Schnauzer World]

I just installed Apple Music on my Windows 11 PC and I get the same problem, must be a Apple Music issue. Spofify Free works fine on both.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Is this fixed for anyone yet? One song is very quiet, the next one might be super loud. Tried the usual fixes, no go. Does rolling back to Sequoia fix the problem?

Sound Check doesn't work correctly for me at all.
It's very frustrating.