No more status bar in playlists in Apple Music on my Mac running macOS 26

This is not a solution for showing the data that used to appear which I used to calculate the length of my radio program based on the cumulative length of tracks. It's unthinkable to me that Apple would just screw this up so badly. Guys I make my living using this program. Please put it back like it was.

Helpful! but not the solution. I appreciate the workaround, but I need to see the results in the full library, not playlists. Also, we shouldn't be doing workarounds. Also, look at the bottom of this screen, it just looks....bad with all that empty space overlapping tracks in songs mode. Also, if the view/show status bar button isn't working at all while in songs mode (which it literally does nothing when in songs mode), then that's an actual bug that needs remedied for that edge case.

Workarounds are great! I appreciate you for the help. But Apple needs to hear that there's still no solution.

You're saying "It only works if you are viewing your entire list of songs. If you are viewing a playlist, the status bar does not appear." Well, I am not seeing it when selecting the view status bar on or off while in full screen mode or normal screen mode, while in my entire library of songs - see screen shot. Please share what I am doing wrong, if so? Appreciate it if you can! Apologies for the editing in the image - some songs are not appropriate for this forum. Anyway, here is an image. I am trying to select show status bar on / off and it literally does nothing in this view.

That works for me too. Not really practical, though. Too much switching views around.

I assume that this is just a bug, and that it will be working in the next point release.

This isn't working for me. I see the status bar everywhere except in playlists.

Exactly. I can't understand how they just get rid of features they think is irrelevant without consulting the public.

I honest wish someone could simply patch the original iTunes to work with Rosetta on these new Mac OSes. Like what is this? So many bugs with Apple Music and it looks like they don't even care.

Should, but doesn't!

Thank you for the example but I see you are using iTunes for music videos. I only use it for music tracks and this feature is not appearing for me.

The above suggestion doesn't provide the size info that many wish to restore and you have to move to the bottom of sometimes a very long playlist if you want to see partial info. A work around that allows the old style of displayed info is to select any playlist, go to view and select genre and all the old format info is shown top left of the window. Should be pretty easy for Apple to put this back in the actual playlist view.