Songs View Jumping to Random Spots After Action

(Temporary fix I discovered when you are editing/making changes to a song and it generates that annoying screen jumping bug)

If you are playing a song and the screen jumps, you can pause the song you are listening to and press play again, and it will take you back to the song you were editing.

I have found if you work on creating playlists from the Albums Library no jumping occurs but you are contained within each album from your library. That is the only way I have found to keep it from jumping around.

What exactly is Safe Mode for the macOS Music app?

I'm having this issue of the song list jumping around too. It's awful. Based on the suggesting above, I tried launching Music in Safe Mode (close the app, then relaunch it while holding down Option & Command keys). The problem doesn't seem to exist in Safe Mode.

Safe mode refers only to running the computer system software. You shut down and hold the on button until the computer comes up in safe mode and then you run the music software. Bottom line is that its a widespread problem, my new Mac Studio the first time running the program had the problem as many others have testified. The only helpful workaround so far that I heard was given above by Nooby5au to tap the up arrow key.

YES! I just turned off Wi-Fi on my MacBookPro and the jumping stopped.

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 haven't tested this extensively, but Monterey 12.3 seems to have secretly fixed at least some of the song jumping. It seems to have fixed the Play Next & Play Later features also. This is hopeful.

It’s not just an M1 issue, there are a bunch of examples in this thread from all different kinds of chips. I have intel 2019 16” MBP.

When I called in after posting after the 12.4 update I was told the senior engineers were aware of this problem and were done pretty much with the data collection part of this bug and are now working to fix it.

At this point I am just holding out hope it’s fixed with whatever new version they reveal at WWDC and release in September.

I had the same problem on my 2015 Macbook Air 13''.

I just updated to 2020 MBA M1 and guess what the problem happens again.

Something i suspect of is Chrome. The jumping thing happens when my chrome is open and im connected to the internet.

However if i disconnect from the internet and shutdown Chrome all is well.

Anyone is willing to test this if that is the case with them as well?

Im not sure if this is just by chance or happens to other people as well

Hmm interesting.

Did you try also to disconnect from WiFi or the internet and check out?

I also remembered some people in other forums (maybe reddit) saying that after disconnecting from Wifi or the internet the

jumping stopped and when they went back it came back

For me, having a music library of about 19 thousand songs, this is incredibly frustrating. I'll be in the middle of a song on my laptop (via headphones) and all over a sudden it has jumped to a completely random spot in my list of songs. Not to mention anytime I want to do any kind of edit to the MP3 file, be it new cover art, giving it a different genre, renaming the album, etc. it jumps to either the very top of my list or to the bottom after I make the change it doesn't stay on the song I am listening to or making changes to. SO...I made a playlist called "MY MUSIC" and put EVERY SONG in my iTunes in it. If nothing else, while using this list (my songs are grouped by artist, not song title) I can listen to an album and the list doesn't move around on its own. Like most here, this began when I downloaded Monterrey IOS and no one at Apple Tech has any suggestions on how to make it stop.

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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.

So it looks like MacOS 12.1 addressed the "Songs View Jumping to Random Spots After Action" issue, but all other issues I listed still exist. I'm getting used to it now, though. 😂🎅🏼

To get back to the song, you click “cmd-L” and then on the song tab and that will place you where you want to be.