Music app UI issues after macOS Tahoe update

Not unfounded conspiracy theory: it's an ongoing, willful degradation of the music library experience (iTunes Match destroying files, cap on cloud files, nav defaulting to Apple Music, opt-out Apple Music preferences) so that Apple can get out of the MP3/AAC business once and for all and put the full (consumer) focus on streaming.

That Terminal command didn't do a thing. I wish it did — the bugs in this app are driving me nuts. It chokes on certain playlists; it can't find some recently added albums so I have to click on each missing song and search for it. Sometimes the music just stops playing for no apparent reason; etc. And like everyone else I don't like the new layout. I'm a radio producer and I use this app all the time to preview new music. Frankly, I think it needs to be rewritten from the ground up instead of kluging new stuff onto an ancient design.

It's terrible. Not even an option to place it at the top, where it's been forever. I'm using Swinsian.

I did a safe boot, the oval area showed up, however, when restarted the Mac, it disappeared.

For your Point 4., you can go to View Options>Time to see the time of the song plus what you want to see in the columns in the interface.

One of the most used apps on Mac's, iPhones and iPads and Apple has really angered a lot of people.

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“I would really like to see the play controls back at the top, and not in that glass design anymore. It’s now very hard to read, even though I have a beautiful Studio Display.”

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I have over 11k albums stored on an external hard drive and they were working perfectly until this abomination came along!

Now no music plays, can’t sync my 1Tb iPhone to my music to update and the app has started to move music around on my hard drive!

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There are so many reason I don't like Tahoe's UI. It seems as if they tried to make everything consistent between iPhones and laptops etc with the priority given to iPhone UI. But they have made a mess. Take a look at the attached screen shot from maps. The cut off of end route, the over lapping of the up arrow, the large blank section. I have so many issues with this now. Another item driving me crazy is why they move the music controls to the bottom of the music app when every other UI has controls on the top. Now the UI between Podcast and music are different. The Podcast ap at least lets you select a play in a tool bar on top and associate with the selected podcast. Music just an inconsistent mess of button locations and different functions. Apple sometimes change is not better and you need to test your products more. Why is this released so poorly?

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the new music app in OS Tahoe UI is a DISASTER –

besides placing the control bar at the bottom of the page which makes NO SENSE at all - i'm experiencing incredibly long lags when cataloguing new album entries into my library - it's taking at least 3X longer to input an album, edit song titles etc – PLEASE FIX ASAP - thnx

I tried you Shift key but for my problem it didn't work on my M1. I have 3900 songs and I want to move 10 of them up from there present position which is 3890 to 3900 into different places in the top 1000. I use to be able to highlight them, holding the cursor and drag them up to where I want them, but not any more and they are not on a external SSD but on the Mac

Eliminating the playlist duration is a mistake (I hope it was just a mistake) that must be fixed in the next release. This is a needed feature for some Music app users, and considering the massive amount of unused/wasted space in the app's window, there is plenty of room to return this functionality.

I agree the new UI is awkward and less useful. However, the playlist duration hasn't been eliminated - just moved to the very bottom of the song list. Just scroll ...all...the...way...down... and it's helpfully hidden there.

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Agree with the new app being a disaster. Curious if anyone else has experienced the following 2 issues:

1. In the search view, when looking at Albums, if you click the "Albums >" text to open a full page grid of the albums that match your query, the albums are no longer selectable. As in, you see a full grid of albums, but you can't click into any of the albums. Single clicking, double clicking, triple clicking, right clicking... nothing has any effect, just a static grid of album art. What is the possible use for such a view? (The albums are still selectable in the main search page - where it shows each section for Artists / Albums / Songs - just not when you click into the Albums> view).
2. When _controlling_ a HomePod (select AirPlay icon > Switch to: > Select HomePod - Specifically _not_ when "AirPlay"-ing), I cannot select a song from an Album to play. No matter which song I select in an Album, the HomePod always starts playing the first song in the album. If I select the 3rd track, the first plays. If I select the last track, the first plays. The rest of the tracks in the album do show up in the queue, but they always show up in order. i.e. If I had shuffle on, shuffle turns itself off. The only way to play a specific song is to click one at random, let the first track start playing, then skip ahead to the track I want.

Both of these issues happen every time, without fail, and throughout restarts across 2 different devices. Absolutely baffling that this app passed QA. Also seems like I should share my resume with this team XD.

ElectricAirplane wrote:

Space bar no longer works as it did in previous versions of Apple Music. It doesn't stop or start music anymore in full screen. It does in Mini-player but I need it full screen.

I found that to be a glitch. I selected View menu > Show Playing Next then the space bar worked normally, even after toggling off Playing Next.