Apple Music skips about 2 seconds into track on macOS and tvOS

I think this is only a forum to help each other, I don't think Apple reads this...

They clearly state at the bottom of this page:

"Welcome to Apple Support Community

• A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products."

"Their products".... instead of 'Our products' or 'Apple products', almost meaning "their problems, not ours" hehe..

I have the same issue, brand new mbp 16 M1 with latest OS and every single time you have an issue the first response is: Have you updated to the latest OS? and if the answer is NO you get a GTFO and don't bother until you update.

Well I have the latest out the box and this annoying issue on a simple app, simple task. That's why I never update right away, as soon as it starts to "work" (more like as soon as I learned to live with the bugs) another update, some get fix, some get worst and why not some new bugs that weren't there before.

APPLE: I PAY SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRODUCTS ONLY TO BE TRATED AS YOUR BETA TESTER!

But anyways lets hope the apple gods hear our prayers this time from their multibillion bubble. is like the upper guys don't even try the new OS releases. Really nobody tried the music app before releasing it? Billion dollar company and still can't find some budget for debugging? Why do I have to pay to try your Betas?

Exactly same problem with every WiFi and Mobile Data network (3G, 4G and 5G as well) both with my iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 16.1 and with my two macbooks pro (13" M1 and 16" M1 Pro) updated to the latest MacOS version 13.0

I had this issue even before this update.

I wish Apple folks brag less about themselves at their yearly events and instead fix these major issues in their major products. We're not paying thousands of dollars on these machines to look at how beautiful they are.

Just chiming in to say I too have had this issue on all platforms ever since Lossless is released. It's enough of a turn off that I have to use another music service, but sync playlists over to and from Apple still as I like the discovery. I just wish Music would be made into a respectable product instead of a half-baked solution

So a couple of weeks ago, I bought a Mac Mini to solely use as a jukebox. I thought it'd be better than buying a PC for the same purpose.

And lo and behold, I am having this issue. I'm simply just going to return it. This is completely inexcusable. I have never seen a media player behave so poorly. Utterly unacceptable.

Like, I will literally spend hundreds of hours going through my playlists and porting them over to Qobuz because of this. As a musician, music means everything to me, and I simply can't believe this. I would be better off with a Gateway or Micron from 1995.

How is this real?

Just wanted to follow up and say that Qobuz runs laps around iTunes or Music or whatever it's called at this point. Fantastic quality/fidelity, large catalog, app is quicker, and absolutely no skipping whatsoever.

This is a real problem. Happens on every track when streaming on lossless. You can’t call it lossless if you lose a whole beat! The beginning of the song is the most important part. The skipping just takes you out of it and ruins the magic. Please fix this, and thank you for the in depth analysis done by @philfnyc1

Looking up this exact issue and finding a post a year old is disheartening. Has there been a fix to this yet? Between this issue and there being no exclusive mode for Apple Music, I'm going to eventually have to switch to a different service for lossless music.

I'm using IOS 16.5.1 on my Iphone 14 Pro and the lossless glitch with the 2 seconds at the 15 second mark is still happening! I have had this issue since last summer (2022)! I got the iphone 14 pro in January of this year and it's been happening since then!

Well the problem seemed to abate but after the 17 update it’s back. I even had 5 tracks in a row skipping. Now it’s down to once in a while again. I airplay from an iPad Air 4 to HomePods 2nd gen. I’m going to revert to aac and see if the situation improves. I also have an appletv, all have been updated. It’s really not good enough.

I started messing around with a Samsung Galaxy tablet to play with a much more advanced/configurable equalizer than iOS gives you (another iOS gripe of mine). I found that the issue in this thread isn’t a problem when using the Apple Music app on Android, high-res lossless. Go figure…

Im seeing this too, and its absolutely infuriating, and fundamentally breaks the sole purpose of the apple music app. The replies pointing to caching discrepancies are probably right on the money. Hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D each year, and they still havent rebuilt Apple music from the shell that was once iTunes. Its why it loads slower, has more bugs, etc, than other platforms. But hey, Lossless! even if you cant use it on any product other than a mac with an external interface. 2006 iTunes servers go brrrrrrrrr.....

I too have this issue - I am switching to Apple Music to get the best quality plus Dolby Atmos with my new sound system.

I specifically bought an Apple TV to be able to make use of higher quality lossless sound (which is amazing) through my Atmos capable sound system and… get this great long pause with no sound every time I select a song! As another user said.. this is the opposite of lossless when you are losing part of the song!

Apple please fix in future updates - I’d rather a pause before playback rather than losing a vital part of the song.