Music App Issue in Os Monterey

I've been experiencing weird issues, as well. This may be a very specific case, but I had some music added via Apple Music, and then I acquired the CD, so I import the files, and my intention is to delete the Apple Music files and Match the CD files, and this goes as expected initially, but after some time it seems to revert back: the Apple Music files are "undeleted" and my imported files are nowhere to be found. Also, playlist changes seem to be reverted. In one case involving imported music as per above, I replaced the Apple Music tracks in a playlist with my imported tracks, and in this case, the imported tracks have remained but the playlist reverted back to the way it was. Also, play counts don't seem to be updating from playing music on my phone. I know this usually takes a day or so to be reflected on the Mac (not that I understood why that would be the case) but it's been several days now and I'm not seeing play counts updated from the phone.

Weird, weird stuff. These are all things that I do regularly, and never had these issues, it's only happened since I upgraded to Monterey last weekend. Sometimes a restart helps.

I’m sorry if this is already something you know, but there’s a toggle for searching between Apple Music and your library. I hardly ever search my own library but sometimes the app seems to want me to, and will switch me over to a library search, and then I get confused that I can find something…then I click the toggle and everything is ok.

I’m not sure if the sorting problems you mention are the same as mine, but for me sometimes I can’t click on a column header to sort, the column kind of flashes like it’s entering drag and drop mode, which I also can’t do. But I’ve found you can sort through the view menu. Usually after doing that, normal column header functionality seems to work.

I’m with you, too, in that I use Music on my older MBP with Catalina, and it works fine. I’ve been able to update tags and edit playlists there, and then it syncs to the cloud and back to my Monterrey Mac. It’s clearly a problem with Monterrey Music, and not the cloud service.

I have trouble changing the order of songs in my playlist since I upgraded to Monterey. I can do it if I restart the computer, but I have to keep doing that every so often. I also have trouble closing the Music app. I also sent a bug report.

Oh, forgot to mention, I can't move columns around in songs view, and sometimes I clicking on a column heading to sort doesn't work.

Just got into a certain playlist, and songs that I added a week ago, and had trouble tagging, and replacing the Apple Music versions, are again reverted to original tags and the deleted Apple Music versions are still in my library, in the playlist... I've made this change probably 3 times already, this is really aggravating.

As a software developer, I can't imagine how stuff like this gets past QA.

As a music teacher, I rely on iTunes (now Music and TV) to share my music tracks (mp3) and videos (mp4) for students during lessons or forward them via email for online work. Since converting to OS Monterey on my iMac, problems have arisen with trying to find specific items under Name, Artist, Composer, Comments and Genre.

In the past I was able to select the column, type in the first few letters of the song/artist/composer etc and iTunes would immediately search and display the results. Under Monterey this has become very haphazard with the song/artist/composer columns and non-existent with the Comments or Genre columns. I also can't export my songs directly to student emails or thumb drives and now have to drop them onto the desktop before loading them.

This is effecting my productivity and is frustrating for everyone. I have restarted the computer on several occasions and quit and reloaded Music without any improvements. Fortunately I still have iTunes on my MacBook Pro with OS Mojave to do my search functions.

Would appreciate any help or solutions.

My problems differ slightly. Most of my music is downloaded - I do a lot of work in places without internet. Since updating to Monterey, Apple Music constantly says it can't find a file.

It also only searches for music in my library, so if I want to add a new song I have to add it on the iPhone app and then it shows up on my Mac.

Most of my music comes from either my own recordings, personal cd's or from downloaded YouTube mp3's. Occasionally I also get the "can't find the file" so assume there's a glitch somewhere. Let's hope Apple has a closer look at the app.

Thank you. I also have a listing under this discussion group entitled 'Search functions with Music app under OS Monterey' which partly addresses this problem but leaves many glitches to be resolved by Apple.