No sound at all with Music 1.4.4.48 after Sonoma 14.4.1 update

My Music Library is stored in my Onedrive. All downloaded to my local iMac. When I select one to play it won't play. If I select play for any song it just continuously pulls a random song from that playlist or album into the playing bar at the top but nothing plays.

Nothing wrong with the music as I can play it fine through VLC player, just Apple Music.

I'm running Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224) so with Apple Music version 1.4.4.48

Same Mac OS 14.4.1, same Mac music app 1.4.4.48, running on 2018 Mac Mini Intel i3, same symptoms: I select a song to play, the app randomly selects another song, sometimes jumps across a number of songs, won't start playing. Going into the music library files, I can double click a song file icon and it plays correctly.

Please fix this, Apple, or at least give us a hint that you're working on it.

I have the same problem. My music is on an external hard drive. The files are all pointing to the proper place... but no music... no sound. I hope someone at Apple is working on this.

MacBook Pro 14"

macOS 14.4.1

I have this problem.

I also have the additional problem that Music will not play the track I select, but chooses apparently at random from the playlist or disc what to play.

This is immensely frustrating.

The underlying files are all unchanged and in their correct places. But somehow the cross links to these have become corrupted in this "upgrade" to 1.4.4.48.

I found a resolution.

The links to the file seem to have been corrupted on one of the updates.

I opened a finder folder on my Mac, searched for all of the MP3 files in my iTunes folder on one drive, and then listed alphabetically (there was 20k files).

I then went through them in alphabetical order and selected all the a files, right clicked and selected open.

Did this for every letter and number.

Now the link to the files are resolved.

Did the same for M4a files.

One drawback is that if you have a lot of files that you don't have in iTunes (I remove duplicates or albums where I have a special edition version) then any of those files aren't already in your Apple Music are then added.

All I did was then select any recently added and deleted from the library and all is OK now.

I found a resolution.

The links to the file seem to have been corrupted on one of the updates.

I opened a finder folder on my Mac, searched for all of the MP3 files in my iTunes folder on one drive, and then listed alphabetically (there was 20k files).

I then went through them in alphabetical order and selected all the a files, right clicked and selected open.

Did this for every letter and number.

Now the link to the files are resolved.

Did the same for M4a files.

One drawback is that if you have a lot of files that you don't have in iTunes (I remove duplicates or albums where I have a special edition version) then any of those files aren't already in your Apple Music are then added.

All I did was then select any recently added and deleted from the library and all is OK now.

The solution offered by Dchantry is very well for him, but it doesn't address the problem I and others have stated, which. is that newly imported music will not load onto Music 1.4.4.48 after the update to Sonoma 14.4.1. I can't even play new CDs this way, which is very annoying and inconvenient. One hopes, without much evidence, that Apple is looking for a solution to this issue.

This is exactly what is happening to me. I've removed and re-downloaded the files into my external hard drive, but it can't be done in batches and at some point Apple Music crashes. It also already corrupted my external hard drive.

I have the same problem as described by others. Library on an external drive. Nothing plays. If I go to the file location, I can click the song and play it in Finder. Just won't play in Music app. Also seeing random songs play when I click them.

What's going on here Apple?

I am seeing a similar problem. After the last update from Apple, Apple Music won't let me import music from CDs. Music 1.4.4.48 after update to Sonoma 14.4.1.

Add me to the list of folks who cannot import CDs to Music 1.4.4.48 since the Sonoma update. Can someone at Apple please fix this glitch?

Update: In the music app, I went to the menu Account: Authorizations: Authorize This Computer, entered my Apple ID and password and the music app is working again. So far.