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

Interesting. This seems to be working for me as well.

Definitely can confirm I’m on the same phone with the latest iOS update and still happens

This is STILL a problem!!! FOR THREE YEARS this has been a problem for EVERY track I play!!?! PLEASE APPLE FIX THIS!! THIRD TIME CANCELLING APPLE MUSIC NOW BECAUSE OF THIS!! W T F

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?

I am having this also.

I am using a LG 2.1 soundbar connected via optical.

I have discovered the issue goes away away when either using the TVs speakers, or going into my Sony X90s settings and disabling PCM audio. (Which is recommended for my soundbar)

Is anyone experiencing this issue NOT using optical cables for their audio? If no, then I believe this is the issue.

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.

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 happening on M1 MBA, MacOS 13.2.1 and on lossless, but with dolby unchecked. After download, it is not happening. fast.com tells me my fiber is 1gbps so guessing it is something to do with software.

I think if streaming, can't use lossless.

Happening to me also. I was trying classical music app on iPad and it’s jumping a few seconds in as it did with the music app. Dreadful experience. I play through iPad, iPad to HomePods and Apple TV to HomePods, all are affected. It’s not only annoying it’s frankly embarrassing. It doesn’t happen all the time, just then a lossless track played fine but it could happen three or four times in a row some investigation needed from apple on this pronto, perhaps increase the cache or delay playing by a couple of seconds to allow a cache to build up. I’m using a very fast fibre connection btw.

And there again on another track.

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.