Songs View Jumping to Random Spots After Action

I am so glad I found this post. I thought I was crazy. Only recently did I start getting back to organizing my 20K song music library and it’s been so frustrating making any edits and metadata changes when the library jumps to the bottom after even capitalizing a word.

I thought it was to do with my 2016 MBP and thought I may need a new computer!

FWIW, I had the same issue... until I hadn't:

- The Songs view jumping randomly and wouldn't let me scroll in any predictable way,

- Going to an Artist or an Album by typing its first letters didn't work any more in any predictable way either.

For the sake of precaution, I had waited for Monterey 12.1 before I updated yesterday 26-Dec... only to find that my 30K+ song library was now almost unusable (unbrowsable). Disappointed, cursing, and so on...

And then I noticed something, a status message on the lower left corner of the Music app saying something about checking audio levels (I can't remember the exact message). I clicked on it, and there was a count down... more exactly a counting up through my entire library of 30K+ songs/tracks. Somehow the Music app was in the process of scanning through the entire Library audio files.

Then I had doubts, because we've all seen how the Music app (and formerly iTunes) is very bad at handling multitasking. For ex when you have music streaming to AirPlay speakers, using the GUI to curate the library at the same time (or importing more music) would occasionally disturb playback.

Now that the scanning process has completed after a day of frustration, the issue no longer occurs. No more jumping randomly in Songs view, and searching for albums or artists with the keyboard works again.

Anything that sounds familiar to you? I realize some of you guys have had the issue for 2 months already, but for me it only lasted for one day after the upgrade to Monterey 12.1. Fingers crossed though.

Appreciate this! I did not realize there was a 12.1 upgrade. I am still facing the jumping around of songs, and I cannot find the status message with the count up. Do you know where I can find that? I am hoping it's happening somewhere in the back ground. Thank you!

Same issue...for all the music nerds this is heinous to deal with.. gonna attempt downloading the last iTunes (Not the new Music tab) and see if it functions better.

Edit: Nevermind, can't use iTunes on the new M1s...

Add me to the pile of people experiencing this too. And the most annoying part of it is that I've discovered it while going through fixing the roughly 1,000 tracks that had their ratings and other custom info messed up or deleted in the "upgrade" to Monterey. Despite being a longtime Apple fanboy (and past employee) who typically updated software almost immediately, I'd feared this kind of thing happening when moving my huge, well-curated library from iTunes to Music. Having not heard any real horror stories over the past couple of years, I crossed my fingers and made the jump. Now I wish I'd trusted my instincts and carefully made backup playlists (eg. all songs rated 3 stars, all songs with "Full Album" in comments* etc.) so I could fix these quickly. It's bad enough I have to fix all this in the first place but the constant jumping from where I'm working to some random spot in the song list is driving me up the wall.

*By the way, if anyone's wondering why I do tags like this, it's because I hate how Apple treats every title as an "album", doesn't distinguish singles and doesn't have an obvious way to distinguish complete albums from those you've just plucked a track or two from. This was my way of isolating complete albums that better resemble my old CD collection in a Smart Playlist. I know, I know... I should just get with the times and accept Apple's way of sorting things but I just... can't.

Monterey 12.1 did not fix this issue: I view my songs list to create playlist, dragging and dropping songs to the side pane where the playlists are. After each drag and drop, the song list jumps to usually the bottom of the list but sometimes what seems to be a random spot. It is very frustrating.

As I mentioned earlier, there is no more telling indicator on the song jumping issue, than it happening on 2 brand new MacBook Pro computer's in front of the Genius staff at the Apple store here in Bangkok. The manager came out and said he would make a personal report to Apple but I have heard nothing back in about 6 weeks.

Is there a fix for this yet?

I am also experiencing the forced scrolling issue.. goes to the bottom of my library literally every 20 seconds as I'm organizing music from songs. No other program is doing this on my MAC.

I'm having this issue as well. I thought it was just me. I'm relieved to see so many other people are having the same issue as well. Hopefully Apple sees this and comes up with a fix. Makes me miss the iTunes days.

I spent HOURS working with support over the course of about 5 days last fall. I take comfort in the fact that I am not the only one, but on the same note, also puzzled that there doesn't seem to be that many people reporting this issue compared to the Mac OS install base.

This is still happening to me as well even after the recent update. This is maddening and makes It impossible to organize music. Some people still like curating our music collection and Apple has proven over and over again that they couldn’t care less. Fix this immediately

I am having this issue as well for me when I double click on a song in song list randomly and not always after I click on the song

iTunes will scroll several pages past the song while its playing this makes iTunes for me unusable I have around 40,000 songs! Many purchased!! No response from Apple/

So I noticed today that I do not have the problem on my MacBook Pro M1 just the iMac Pro ? The only difference other than my iMac is not m1

is my iTunes library in my iMac is on a separate hard drive ? I wonder if this leads to the issue? downloaded Monterey latest version did not help :(. Apple support wants me to reload the system software but thats a lot of effort if the bug is know internally ?

I'm on an iMac M1, and the issue is actually worse for me at this point - any interaction with a song on the list causes this behavior (for me it used to only be "Loving" a song). And I have done a complete reinstall last fall and that did not fix the issue.