apple music memory leak

I am seeing the same thing (late 2013 27" iMac). Eventually after listening to an album or so and my 8 GB of RAM is exhausted, the music will stop playing and then Apple Music will crash. I have tried rebooting the mac and still running into this issue.

Disabling automatic artwork updates in preferences doesn't seem to work for me. :( I unchecked that box and restarted the Music app and it still went right into its "loading artwork" and memory routine, unabated, as if the preference setting is useless.

I am having the same issue since upgrading. Will sit there for hours “loading artwork” and I can see the artwork slowly trickle in, until the app crashes and I get a system out of application memory warning. Opening the music app starts the whole process over. I have ~10,000 songs, and am on a 2013 rMPB with 16gb of ram.

Thanks guys , I have tried to quit but the app is still running although the artwork window has closed. I am checking and it still gobbling up my RAM.

Hopefully Apple are listening and issue a fix ASAP

That seems to have fixed the issue for me as well. Thanks for the hint!

However, how Do I access the Media Library on my Synology NAS drive?

In iTunes there was a drop down menu where you could select the iTunes server but I haven't found anything similar on Apple Music yet.

What in heaven's sake is the use of a library of 40,000 songs???? (Or even 10.000 for that matter.)

Sounds like the old American problem of overdoing it. When can one ever listen to all this music?

Just my two European cents...

Just wondering what to DO with all that music. Any song can be found somewhere on the internet these days, so there is hardly any use to keep them on your computer. And having the time to listen to all this music (that's what it's for, isn't it?) seems impossible to me.

But this was just a thought when I visited this page. There are more important issues to be discussed here, so let us stick to those. ;-)

I know what you mean...

But I’m a music lover, I like to own my music. I like to own my records and my digital files (that I also have in the cloud with my iTunes Match subscription). That way, I don’t need to subscribe any streaming service. Why should I? Besides, I have lots of music that isn’t available on any streaming service. ;)

If I have the time to listen to all my music? Of course not. And, believe me, I listen to a LOT of music, it’s my passion and my job. But that’s not the point...as any music geek could tell you ;)

Well what I don't understand why this issue isn't on any of the apple sites like macrumors , iclarified, machash , appleinsider??

It must be affecting thousands of people but no mention at all. Apple paying them off to keep it quiet as such a disaster after touting it the replacement for iTunes?

Where did you move the Album Artwork folder to? I have my iTunes library on my QNAP. NAS and am also experiencing artwork not loading for many albums. I assume you don’t delete the folder, but move it to another location? Please advise. Thanks.

Apple Music totally locks my whole computer (iMac).

And I can't do anything with it. I can't search for music, I can't play songs. I just get the spinning wheel all the time.

I have to force quit Apple Music to be able to do anything else on my computer, like browsing the web.

Which I will, to listen to Spotify webplayer.

Approximately 20% of the songs in my Itunes library are songs not available on streaming services. And I like to own my music, because you never know what happens to any of the streaming services. Peter Gabriel's music, for instance, has been on and off streaming services during the last few years.

Worth noting the same thing happened to my movies but only approx. 10 of 879 have missing artwork, both iTunes store purchases and backups of BluRays that I own. All of my TV Shows retained the artwork. Both Movies and TVShows blasted through in a matter of minutes with no memory leaks, so clearly it's just Music that has a problem.

I'm also pleased to report my playlists have remained intact, which was an issue with iTunes following an upgrade in the past, so they have at least nailed that one.

Same here too. Once I start playing something in Music it can continue happily playing forever, but if I want to change anything - wake the screen from darkness, open another app - the track playing gets incredibly glitchy and won't close for 10 minutes or so, while it works through whatever it is doing. I can't even see what is going on in Activity Monitor as all of the memory is being used up by something - presumably Music as it is the only thing really running. This is ridiculous!

Even having left it running alone with no music playing for hours at a time hasn't cleared the backlog of tasks. OK, I've got 400GB of music for it to sort through, but at present this app is useless and making my machine unworkable in any other capacity.

Welcome to the party man. Be prepared for a few kernel panics, and if you're lucky it will continue to load your artwork. If not, you will have to figure out how to extract your artwork using a tag editor and reload it.