Hey folks, anybody got the same behaviour as I do?
Since the update to 26.(2?) Music is starting up with an empty screen, spinning wheel, likely as it waits for something - Marketing Adds?
In the previous versions it started with the same view as I left it, mainly the top "Last Added*" view.
Is there any recently added start-up preference that I didn't notice?
(*I hopefully translated "Zuletzt hinzugefügt" correctly, I'm at a German UI)
I got the cause. It is reproducible!
The cause is the deactivated Apple Music Option in the preferences!
This case is not covered by the Apple developers and will result in an empty screen on startup.
This will not appear at any startup, but if the App was down for a while, i can reproduce the issue.
If you toggle: "Display: Apple Music" to ON...:
(sorry for the German UI, but you may get the point)
...you will get this:
...and a big red banner later on.
If you don't like to pay money on the services, you may turn it off to avoid the big red advertising...:
...and you will end in:
So, it is an "Advertising Feature". (?)
I like to stay angry about the spinning wheel instead being tortured by senseless Apple Adds.
So, please Apple, fix this and exempt valued customer from Adds for products they don't want to purchase.
ps. I still don't got any reply on my product feedback. (I guess I left feedback twice these days)
You won't get any replies and I shouldn't hold my breath for fixes if I were you. I've got a list of 15 bugs - including this blank screen one - going back to when Music replaced iTunes on Mac in 2019. I submitted feedback and bug reports for each one at every OS dot roll up until a couple of years ago when I gave up. Only one has ever been fixed - the one where the iCloud download column constantly reappeared in playlists.
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Apple Music is starting with empty screen since Tahoe
