Apple Music broken after Sonoma 14.0 update

I've been having a handful of issues with Apple Music on my MacBook Pro 14"

1) Music will randomly stop halfway through the song and after pausing and resuming a handful of times it will continue to play, but when the next song is ready to play, it'll jump back to where it stopped halfway through the song. I noticed this specifically when wearing AirPod Pros.

2) I can't listen to music in my library and click on any other tab or the music will stop playing. For example, I'll play a song from an album and then click the search bar to search another artist and then the song will stop playing and my queue is cleared.

3) Album art does not show up next to the song at the top on the Apple Music currently playing bar.

Hopefully these issues can be fixed in a bug fix update!

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.0

Posted on Oct 3, 2023 9:56 AM

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William Howard2

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Posted on Mar 16, 2024 1:37 PM

My issue with this was that after I force-quit Apple Music it refused to launch; it would start, wait a few seconds, not allowing me to do anything, then in the "Force Quit Applications" window it would suddenly light up as red, then crash and give me a crash report (which does me absolutely NO good!). I tried restart, safe mode, nothing.

Reading from one help page, I deleted the "plist" preference files and viola!, it came back! And, all my imported CDs AND Music Store purchases were available!

From Finder, go to the "Go" in the menubar and select "Go To Folder" (near the bottom).

Copy this line, and paste it in the window that opens:

~/Library/Preferences

And hit return

In the window that opens, I selected these two files and put them in the trash:

com.apple.Music.eq.plist

com.apple.Music.plist

Restarted, launched Music, and it worked! My view settings had reset, but otherwise, I'm back using again, and best of all didn't lose anything.

Your mileage may vary, but I hope this helps...

iMac Retina 5k, 27-inch, 2019, 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, Sonoma 14.4 (23E214)

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