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Mac Music App Crashes On Load Every Time

I just got the new M1 Mini (16GB/1TB) and when I try to open up Music, I get the "Checking Music Library" for about 2 seconds and then the app just crashes. I have deleted (well, moved) the Music folder in my home folder to see if it was a problem with my library, but it just creates a new folder when I try opening it again and then proceeds to crash even quicker.


Process:               Music [70137]
Path:                  /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music
Identifier:            com.apple.Music
Version:               1.1.3 (1.1.3)
Build Info:            MusicDesktop-1001003003000~1
Code Type:             ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Music [70137]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2021-02-19 00:31:35.775 -0800
OS Version:            macOS 11.2.1 (20D74)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        B4BD043E-197C-D253-4537-C3BC56196A9C


Time Awake Since Boot: 200000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Music main  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000003e0
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [70137]

VM Regions Near 0x3e0:
--> 
    __TEXT                      102484000-103d54000    [ 24.8M] r-x/r-x SM=COW  /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music

Application Specific Information:
dyld3 mode

Mac mini, macOS 11.2

Posted on Feb 19, 2021 12:36 AM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2021 1:22 AM

I guess I sort of fixed the problem by creating a new user and starting up Music on that user. Then, for some reason, when I went back to my main admin user it was able to open without crashing. Makes zero sense, but w/e

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Mac Music App Crashes On Load Every Time

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