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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Jul 28, 2022 2:49 PM in response to mcdcbear

Earlier in this thread, somebody (probably multiple people) mentioned that the issue is most like caused by iCloud Music Library, and I strongly suspect they're right. I think it's probably iCloud Music Library telling the Music app to jump to the song it thinks you want to see - maybe the previously played or previously edited song? I don't know, but that's my guess for what's causing this.

Dec 6, 2021 9:22 PM in response to DJ555

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.

Dec 18, 2021 7:24 AM in response to newtprober

Yep - I'm getting that one as well. So annoying.


I also HATE that if you sort by "Album by Artist/Year" like I do, I does not save that sort view but instead defaults to sorting by "Album" should you close the app and re-open it. I don't think this is specific to Monterey, though.


This has seriously been one of the buggiest updates I can remember. I also hit the 100K song limit (all cloud music - boggles my mind why there is a limit of any kind on cloud music) so it's been a fun couple of months with Apple Music!

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