MacBook Air: Apple music not playing certain artists. Always jumps to next artist in queue. Very Odd!!

first, i just updated my MacBook air to Ventura yesterday. I'm not sure if that is the problem because i think it started today, but just throwing it out there.

so my apple music will not play the next song if the artist is jay-z. very odd. every other artist it works perfectly. i even made a playlist with a bunch of different artists, i will play the jay-z song and when i hit the next song button it will jump all the way down to the next artist that is not jay-z. could be 50 songs.  i restarted music. restarted the MacBook, and i even shut it down after those didn't work. nothing. 

please help

Posted on Aug 26, 2023 7:09 PM

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Posted on Aug 27, 2023 6:13 AM

Try holding down option+cmd as you launch Music. This opens it in its safe mode, and may repair certain indexes. If that hasn't helped are these locally stored files, or something in the cloud? Do you have an Apple Music subscription? If you do are these files from that service, or something else that you've bought or ripped? Do you have backups? Can you play a specific track from this group if you try? They could potentially just be unchecked, which is intended to lead to them being skipped in normal track to track playback.


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Aug 27, 2023 6:13 AM in response to CastorTroy

Try holding down option+cmd as you launch Music. This opens it in its safe mode, and may repair certain indexes. If that hasn't helped are these locally stored files, or something in the cloud? Do you have an Apple Music subscription? If you do are these files from that service, or something else that you've bought or ripped? Do you have backups? Can you play a specific track from this group if you try? They could potentially just be unchecked, which is intended to lead to them being skipped in normal track to track playback.


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MacBook Air: Apple music not playing certain artists. Always jumps to next artist in queue. Very Odd!!

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