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jrdave2304 Author

Level 1

41 points

Songs View Jumping to Random Spots After Action

Since the update to Monterey I've been experiencing some weird behavior when adding songs to a playlist (or editing info of a song/album). It seems as soon as Apple Music is done making changes, it just randomly decides to jump to a different spot in my current view.

Example: In the Library - Songs view, I went to an album by the artist "Dave". I selected the 12 songs from the album, two-finger click, Add to Last Playlist, and the Songs view jumps down to Jeezy. Do the same thing for a Turnstile album and it jumps down to Various Artists.

All of my playlists are in the "Songs" view (because the default Playlist view is absolutely worthless), so I cannot say whether this happens in other views.

Another, slightly less annoying bug, is that when using the keyboard to jump to the artist you want (in the example above typing "Dave") the first matching song is highlighted at the bottom of the view, instead of the top as it's been since... forever.

Am I the only experiencing/annoyed by these two bugs?

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Posted on Oct 30, 2021 1:56 PM

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kennyc77

Level 1

12 points

Posted on Jul 28, 2022 11:39 PM

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

No more auto jumping in Songs playlist after any editing action
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

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Feb 22, 2023 1:09 PM in response to jrdave2304

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."

S-Crane

Level 1

8 points

Feb 23, 2023 11:43 AM in response to 1nterface

Really appreciate your comment. The solution seemed to work for a bit.

And then my library started jumping all the way to the bottom after changing meta data on tracks. At least its jumping to a consistent spot now.... lol :')

Apr 25, 2023 5:35 PM in response to zilve011

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

Depending on which version OS you have, you can also find it by using the search tool within System Preferences. Type in "scroll bar"

A1MB1G

Level 1

11 points

Sep 2, 2023 11:56 AM in response to jrdave2304

I just came back to Apple Music from Spotify and this bug is annoying me to no end. One of the primary reasons I came back to Apple Music was the granular control over how my music is tagged and organized. This bug interferes with that process in a big way - hopefully they fix it soon!

Stoasehe

Level 1

8 points

Oct 25, 2023 6:33 PM in response to jrdave2304

I have been trying to change start and stop times to 0. I have been doing this song by song and the same jumping happened after closing the window after making changes. I decided to make a smartlist that grabbed about 100 songs at a time so that at least as I got to the bottom the jump would get progressive closer to where I was. Once I did this if I made the changes in the new smartlist it didn't jump at all after making changes.

Dec 21, 2023 1:12 PM in response to jrdave2304

I just reported the issue to Apple, as recommended by several other commenters. However, I noticed that it doesn't seem to be happening on the latest version. I wrote the following to Apple:

The title says it all. When I rate a song with either the stars or the heart, the playlist jumps to a different scroll position in the list. This is happening in 1.2.5.7 on MacOS 12.7.2.

I can verify that it's not happening on 1.4.1.29 on MacOS 14.1.2, so you must have found and fixed it. Any chance of backporting it for those of us with hardware that works perfectly well, but can't be upgraded to the latest Apple Music (which is bundled with an OS not supported on this hardware)

jrdave2304 Author

Level 1

41 points

Oct 30, 2021 2:22 PM in response to jrdave2304

Here's a screen recording. It actually happens when you perform any action on a song/group of songs (edit info, add to playlist, delete, etc.).

https://youtu.be/qmVjcbowNJw

valsjo

Level 1

12 points

Apr 30, 2022 10:00 AM in response to jrdave2304

Hi all,

we should all give feedback to Apple because this bug is insane.

Feedback - Apple Music - Apple

Blair Jr

Level 1

8 points

Jul 28, 2022 2:32 PM in response to mcdcbear

Social media for social change:

jrdave2304 Author

Level 1

41 points

Nov 4, 2021 8:34 AM in response to Bostokkelos

Figured it was a bug and that there isn't a fix but just wanted to make sure it wasn't something specific happening on my end. I'm also reporting the bug.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions!