Issues with Apple Music after upgrading my Mac to macOS Tahoe

As a software developer myself, it’s difficult to have any faith in software from a company which has shown itself to have lost its way, as Apple clearly have. Maybe they have just cut back on testing, or maybe they have thrown their lot into “AI” and downsized their developers, but whatever the cause, software which has hitherto had no issues is suddenly broken. I will only trust iOS 26.2+ when MacOS 26.2+ is working without issues.

And by the way, they have also broken Apple News. I can no longer use the Page Up/Page Down buttons to scroll up and down the landing page, except under circumstances that I have not yet managed to decypher. So iTunes is not the only app they have broken on the latest iteration of the OS.

Once Apple get their act together and have things working, I will resume updates of my iPhone. Until then, no.

I've been a dedicated Mac user since 1987. I've never seen them go backward this far or this fast. It's depressing. The native apps that used to be such a source of ease and fun have become a scourge over the past several years.

To be fair to Apple, they aren’t the only software/technology company to have lost their way in recent years. There are examples everywhere of money-men taking over and downsizing the very people their businesses rely on. The company I work for is a Microsoft house, and they (i.e. Microsoft) have also been in the habit of breaking their own software over the last few years.

I’ve been a developer for coming up to 43 years, and the industry seems to go through this cycle at least once a decade. They think they’ve found a “cheaper” way of doing software, and either offload or demoralise people they think aren’t needed. Then younger or less experienced people have to go through the learning curve that their more experienced ex-colleagues had already gone through, and the industry is effectively set back a few years. I suspect a lot of the recent regressions are down to an over-reliance on AI, which has been hyped up way beyond its true capabilities.

Finally updated my MacBook to Tahoe since Izotope finally gave the green light on their plugins. Anybody else run into issues in Music when you sort a playlist by album? I have playlists of my favorite artists' discographies all set to view by album and sorted by year, but when I select an album and click on a song half way through it still always starts from the beginning. Same if I select it and hit Return. Don't seem to have issues when set to view as Songs or Playlist, so this seems to be specific to the album view. Not the end of the world, but annoying nonetheless, and definitely won't be updating my studio machine! 🙄

Maybe we should go back to burning CDs and using a multi CD changer. It certainly didn't have the kind of problems that we are experiencing with "advanced" technology. All of the hype surrounding A.I. and we've come to a place where we can't simply play music without huge problems?

Found another one: Can't delete songs. I accidentally clicked play on a work audio file — not a song — which copied it into the Music library.

"Delete from Library" no longer actually deletes from the library. Nothing happens. Zilch. No feedback, nothing.

So I went into Finder, manually deleted the file and its folder, and now I have a placeholder for a "could not be found" song that also cannot be deleted.

What a mess.

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I tried Swinsian for just a few minutes. It seemed OK, but I blew through the trial period without a good analysis. The thing that I did notice, which would be a real pain, is that none of my playlists showed up. Is that your experience? Thanks in advance!

It has to be said. Have the people who cared about "the computer for the rest of us" retired and/or been replaced by H-1B VISA holders who don't care? I mean, this is all kind of jarring how quickly the quality of even the simplest of software apps and their functionality has fallen. I think something fundamental has changed.

I wouldn't call them smart playlists. They were just playlists I had built myself in Apple Music, but like I said they all synced over on first launch and seem to be working just fine. Never really played around with the smart playlist feature, so not sure if it does anything fundamentally different from a coding perspective. Probably depends on whether Apple Music writes smart playlists as the finished products when you create them or just as variables that it loads each time you pull it up.

In the correct view, yes, but not with nearly as much usable information as before. And it's completely absent from the main library, where a user might want to know how many songs in their library, or how many songs/play time/etc. in the songs they've selected or filtered.

And filter/selection view in the status bar is completely missing.

So I wouldn't say that "Status bar info now appears at the top left," or at least not in the way the people in this thread expect it to.

I was going to add something intelligent but I'm exhausted with Apple's bologna. Tahoe is absolute garbage.

Could not agree with you more. Decades of commitment to Apple has been severely eroded in the last couple of years. No longer reliable and easy

how?

It's a floating bar.

Yes. It happens to me too. It’s really annoying.