Songs View Jumping to Random Spots After Action

I've been thinking the same for a while. I was always quite proud of how MacOS was so advanced and less buggy than Windows and I always used to say 'it just works.'

Since Monterey I've seen bugs like this (and the similar side scrolling jump in finder) that has been around for so long now unresolved I wonder what on earth is going on...

What are the devs working on? As an IT Service Manager I always used to say your live services are the most important. Without them (or users of them) you'll have nothing to deliver your projects or development work on to...

Come on Apple, we deserve better.

As posted before, use your up arrow to return. For some reason for me the jumps have become fewer, maybe I have got use to the magic mouse and how to handle it which I have wondered if it was a factor.

It even jumps when looking at artists with the browser open. I don't want to have to use the arrow keys since that will filter my songs by artist and also takes forever. I have a Logitech KB&M, so I don't think it's the input device.

I can't see how the input device could be the issue. I'm using an Apple wireless keyboard (2nd gen version which takes 2 AA batteries and doesn't have a number pad), and a 1st gen Magic Trackpad (or was there a 2nd gen of the 2 AA batteries model?). Often, I'm not touching either device when the song list jumps, but if I am touching either input device at the time, it's always the keyboard.

The fact that we are all still dealing with this (beta users not included) is proof that Apple knows about this and is deliberately indifferent to releasing a patch for it. I can’t stand that Apple neglects improving the user experience as fast as possible.

This is very clearly related to Cloud Music Library Sync. Someone else mentioned and I want to reiterate:

Any change you make to metadata gets sync'd to Cloud Music Library and then appears to bork (technical term) the view in Songs view. ANY change to the view gets you back in business. (change to another view, CMD +L, etc.) This is very time consuming for the user and has gone on long enough. Apple needs to fix this. Period.

In the meantime turn off Cloud Sync and do it manually (File - Library - Update Cloud Library). Ugh.

I have this issue currently.

It is a new IMac. The one I had previously was 10yrs old so I decided it was time for an update.

The Music jumps to random places or to the bottom of the screen's list in Music. It also speeds through songs sounding like someone pressed fast forward on an old voicemail machine.

It's almost august 2022 and macOS 12.5 haven't fixed this issue. It's pretty obvious by now that Apple is dragging their feet and will later state in the bug reports that the fix is to upgrade to macOS 13. If your mac doesn't support it then you're SOL.

When I received my MacStudio in May I had the jumpy problem, using the up-arrow got me back to my work location. Since then the problem faded away. And now under OS-12.5 I cannot duplicate the issues I complained about. Certainly there is an explanation. My theory is the blue-tooth magic mouse and keyboard are a factor in my situation.

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.

This is also driving me crazy. I have over 7,000 songs and making specific playlists is near impossible. How can one remember every song they have? You can't, you have to scroll thru to find things you forgot you had.

I am on 12.5.1, brand new MacBook Air M2.

Sadly, it's been almost a year... and I discovered this after upgrading to Monterey. It's horrible.. I hard rate my songs and like organizing them... especially after hires... but now I get this same problem - it's just a huge headache.

Really sad that Apple won't fix it.

I recently bought a new Mac. I decided to start from scratch, importing things manually and in most cases starting over rather than using Migration Assistant. I've been using Macs for a long, long time, so it seemed like starting over from scratch would be wise.

Long story short - I'm STILL experiencing this bug. It happens far less often with my new Mac, but it still happens. This makes me suspect it's related to how Apple Music on the Mac interacts with iCloud Music Library.

God, I hope they fixed it with Ventura.

Ventura!!! LET'S GO!!! It's fixed for me!! Finally...what a headache relieved.

It still jumps a tiny fraction of an inch but not enough to even notice or cause any need to scroll back up etc. Man this is awesome.

There hasn't been an Apple Music update on Monterey in months so thats why its not fixed for you yet. I am hoping but not expecting we might get a fix there for it. Sometimes the core apps updates get pushed to the older OS's but not usually

Not happening on my machine with Ventura though.