roca250 wrote:
Is it just me or is the sound quality horrible on the new Tahoe Music app (iTunes)? Not Apple Music store music but my music library (music purchased through out the years). Sounds horrible after the upgrade. It's bad with wired earphones and even worse with blue tooth earphones.
For me, the sound is excellent. I have an older 2019 Macbook Pro 16" Intel laptop. Both with purchased music and songs extracted from CDs. I tried a little test with bluetooth headphones (Bose) switching between the laptop and an iPhone for the music source and both sound excellent (both are on 26.2), even a bit better with wired connection than bluetooth. Can you think of something installed or some configuration in Music (equalizer?) that might impact your music quality? By the way you can also test this in an Apple Store with Macs on display, they usually have some songs in there that you can listen to via Music app. I assume you that as delivered new all these Macs' music sounds great, so any degradation is most likely to something installed or set up by the user. Not blaming you, just saying where you should focus next to address this.
By the way, you have already done some useful troubleshooting, as you seem to have isolated it to the Music app. So look carefully at how it is being configured, maybe turn the equalizer back on and check how it is handling bass, treble, etc., set it to where things sound good, then you can turn it off (or leave it on).
And what's up with the UI? That "Now playing" window at the bottom of the app is just awful and impractical !! Is Apple now hiring windows programmers to design their apps?
I agree that there are better choices than putting the now playing window at the bottom of the window, where it blocks some other information. Before it used to be at the top ... my guess is that some people complained about that too. Frankly, it's not a major detail for me, the app remains quite usable for me. Sometimes I am a bit surprised at how opinionated some folks are about these details. Maybe I'm just too much of a mellow blob ...
Posting complaints in Discussions won't help with your observations because only Apple can change these things and Apple employees don't read these forums, these are user forums. Send Apple your opinion here: Product Feedback - Apple where the Apple Music section is under "Services" near the bottom. Probably people were critical of the previous version in this feedback so that is why the now playing window was moved from the top to the bottom. Apple won't change it unless enough users send them feedback via this link.
