Songs View Jumping to Random Spots After Action

You are not alone. I've been hard rating songs in playlists and everytime I edit a song's rating it jumps to a random other place in the playlist. Very frustrating! Also, when I press command+L to jump to the current song, the song is displayed at the bottom of the playlist where it used to be at the top. I have reported the bug on https://www.apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

Hope Apple fixes these issues in the next update! :)

I'm finding the Music app is very buggy.

Songs View: Making changes to a selection drops the view down to the very bottom of the list, forcing me to scroll back up to the artist I was making changes to.

Songs View: Music app won't remember how I want to sort (Album by Artist/Year). I have to sort the column manually every time I launch the app. (I've had this issue since Big Sur.)

Spacial Audio says it's not available. I'm using a MacBook Air M1 2020.

In "Get Info" view, when changing the genre I have to select the genre. I used to be able to start typing a genre and it would auto recognize. Auto recognize doesn't work since Monterey upgrade.

Bottom scroll bar is always there... even when there's nothing to scroll left and right for.

I've submitted feedback to Apple.

2 issues will rectify itself if you turn off 'Sync Library' in Music > Preferences > General

1. No more auto jumping in Songs playlist after any editing action
2. The Now Playing menu bar will behave as expected; as in it will show the playing time and remaining time & the scrubber will show accordingly where you are in the music track

As soon as you turn it back on, these 2 issues return.

I've submitted a bug report via Apple Feedback

After YEARS of having this issue, Apple Help was finally able to think of a creative solution (work-around).

Background: The issue seems to be related to the Scroll Bar itself and how it receives inputs.

The fix that worked for me: Go to System Preferences > General > "Click on the scroll bar to": 'Jump to the spot that's clicked'

If you select that option, it seems to stop happening. If this works for you then you're probably like me thinking "I can't believe it was that simple and I've been suffering for so long."

This is the most annoying bug in music maybe ever -- and there have been lots of them -- especially for those of us with large libraries who use Smart Playlists for editing tag data.

Also, have you noticed the left-right scroll bar appearing randomly in the Songs view, even when there's no need for it?

I am having the same issue, and Apple tech said reboot in safe-mode and see if it is still happening. I told him, funny how it happened at the same moment I upgraded to Monterey. He wanted screen recordings, and acted as if this was the first time he heard of it.

Yeah, this needs to be fixed. I'm currently building a playlist of 20,000+ songs, and it's really infuriating to scroll through and find where I was working before the view jumped to the top of the list.

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All of my Apple Music columns jump to the top or bottom of the list instead of the selected category. Example if I am trying to categorize by year, it will jump to 2021(the top) or no year (the bottom).

Very frustrating. Also a little wonky when trying to rate or love songs, jumps around like a super sensitive mouse pad. Also still dealing with the occasionally cut off song at 15 seconds. If it is not one thing, its the other.

After being on the phone with Apple support, I was told to either re-install the OS with the hope that any missing/corrupt files for the music app correct the issue, or wait until the next update for the OS. Mind you, the tech didn't know if the issue would be addressed in that update as it is very "unique".

Looks like we will have to deal with it for a while.

I thought I was alone. Not just in having this issue, but in the level of frustration with Apple Music/iTunes. What is worst, is the level of support. Zero support and apparently zero interest in correcting what should be a simple bug fix.

You're limited to 11,000 songs per playlist on Spotify. And you can't add music that isn't available there, or music you made to your Spotify playlists. I mean, you can, but you have to be playing Spotify from the computer the songs are on. Unlike Apple Music where you can put those songs on your cloud, and play them from anything linked to your cloud. I listen to Apple Music on my Macbook, iPod, and Apple TV pucks.

Same issue, every time I edit the genre space and hit enter it jumps to the top of the playlist window . Command L brings me to the track but its at the bottom of the window. Also cant rearrange the headers of the window often; very annoying! And also what's up with that massive playlist header, you could have 30 more tracks in its place!

To add to my post, I thought it may have to do with my importing a 10 year old .ITL file so created a guest login on Monterey and imported tracks fresh and the same problem; even when just moving a track within a small list it jumps.

I have been using iTunes since inception and this is the worst bug I have encountered. I have an appointment with a genius bar tomorrow and will bring up the matter.

Yup, same deal here. As well, when I do a CMD-L to locate the current track in the list view, instead of just scrolling to it, it jumps me into album view where there's no rating column, or any of the other data that I might want to peek at. Very frustrating!