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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Posted on Feb 22, 2023 1:09 PM

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."

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Dec 12, 2021 10:03 PM in response to jrdave2304

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.

Jan 26, 2022 10:35 AM in response to Lane Baysden

Do you actually have downloaded songs or your own music on the hard drive? I set up a different user on my iMac Pro and logged into iTunes with my iCloud so that the new user profile had no actual downloaded songs just streaming. When I did this the scrolling jump around problem did not occur. However that doesn't do me any good as on my regular user profile I have 1000's of songs actually downloaded including personal music not owned by apple. Apple recommended a clean system install yet others seemed to have tried that without success. Just waisted 2 hours of my life with technical support with no resolution.

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