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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Feb 1, 2022 3:24 PM in response to jrdave2304

I am absolutely flabbergasted by Apple's attitude on this. I have already cancelled Match and Music services and if this is not resolved by 12.3, will start the painful process of downgrading to whichever version of macOS does not present this issue. I have little use for Monterey anyway (Intel Macs) and right now, in light of this issue, am not feeling inclined to sink more money into Apple products.

Feb 3, 2022 10:50 AM in response to KevinFinner

Thank you for this. Didn't even think about hitting pause and play again. I had been pushing the arrow button forward and back which was way more cumbersome.


Command L makes me go into a different viewing mode. Not an option for me.


When I called in the day 12.2 came out I was on the phone for like an hour and made zero headway. It sounded like they would have stayed on the phone with me for 5 hours if I wanted. I don't have time for that. They should be able to recreate the bug themselves and figure it out. I'm not erasing my whole computer or whatever the myriad of things they tried to get me to do.

Feb 9, 2022 7:23 PM in response to jrdave2304

It's February 2022 and this problem (the highlight bar jumping all over the place) is still going on. You "geniuses" need to stop smoking pot when you're creating these "updates". This is beyond frustrating when I'm trying to use Apple Music (it took me 2 hours to put a f***ing playlist together) and it seems like Apple just doesn't give a ****.

If they did this would have been resolved months ago, but no. Please stop with the sh!tty unnecessary updates and leave everything alone. You just keep screwing everything up in a lame attempt at justifying your bloated salaries. So tired of the nonsense already.

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