Please, cache index under Home Sharing

It takes 2 minutes for Apple Music to create an index under Home Sharing with the library on my iMac, when I access from iOS. The index is only retained briefly. Sure wish it would cache the index until I ask it to update. As is, I often avoid the Music app for this purpose, which is the only purpose I use it for on my mobile devices.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 26, 2021 10:18 AM

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Nov 26, 2021 10:20 AM in response to jkr98116

This is a user to user forum. To send requests to Apple use https://apple.com/feedback.

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Nov 26, 2021 11:42 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Apple has been silent on this. I was hoping someone might have a tip about something I'm missing.

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