My Music is not showing up in Final Cut 12.3 on MBPro M5. It previously showed up when I was using my 2018 Intel MBP. I did first start the Music app and then FCP but the music never populated. Some permission thing? How do I correct this? I own all the music in my library too.
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So in solving this, I thought that going into system settings>Privacy and Security, and making sure that FCP had full disk access. I mistakenly thought that would include accessing my Music files too. But for that you have to do step 2: System Prefs>Privacy and Security and go to Music and make sure FCP is enabled in that. In my case it was not switched on. Hopefully this will save you 3 days of trying to figure out what the heck is going on. On me for not checking though.
So in solving this, I thought that going into system settings>Privacy and Security, and making sure that FCP had full disk access. I mistakenly thought that would include accessing my Music files too. But for that you have to do step 2: System Prefs>Privacy and Security and go to Music and make sure FCP is enabled in that. In my case it was not switched on. Hopefully this will save you 3 days of trying to figure out what the heck is going on. On me for not checking though.
I see that there is a question mark where the selection of music and playlists ought to be.
Two thoughts:
1) Make sure that Final Cut Pro has Full Disk Access
2) If the problem persists, try deleting FCP preferences
Where is the Music library stored?
Not that it should make any difference, but you could try launching Music, and then Final Cut Pro (I'm grasping at straws here).
Oh... and did you install "cleanmymac", or any antivirus or any similar program? These can cause all sorts of problems.
If the issue persists: please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.
We may find something odd in the report that may help us narrow down the issue.
Jono2024 wrote:
Thanks Luis.
Music is stored on my external hdd. I did try launching Music first and then fcp but no luck. No antivirus installed. I am not familiar with Etrecheck, or where that is located.
I have another hunch that I will check tommorow:
since this is a new mbp, when I first launched music by default it created a Music folder on my startup drive>user. But my music and all associated files, dbases et al are on the external hd. Starting music with modifier key directed music to the external hd. After I did that, Music opens as expected each time. I’ll have to check to see if the “empty” Music folder is still on start up and delete that if it is and see if that works.I’ll report tomorrow.
This looks like it may be it: FCP seeing an empty library.
Probably for historical reasons, Music is different from Photos in one aspect that I think is relevant to the present situation: in Photos, you can set "Use as System Photo Library" and all other applications "know" where to look (if they have permission). This works great with FCP: you can switch to a completely different Photos library, and as long it is set as the system photo library, FCP can find it.
Music can change the location of the library it's using, but AFAICT there is no "system" setting.
Thanks Luis.
Music is stored on my external hdd. I did try launching Music first and then fcp but no luck. No antivirus installed. I am not familiar with Etrecheck, or where that is located.
I have another hunch that I will check tommorow:
since this is a new mbp, when I first launched music by default it created a Music folder on my startup drive>user. But my music and all associated files, dbases et al are on the external hd. Starting music with modifier key directed music to the external hd. After I did that, Music opens as expected each time. I’ll have to check to see if the “empty” Music folder is still on start up and delete that if it is and see if that works.I’ll report tomorrow.
Thanks for replying Luis!
So I checked and FCP does have full disk access. Attached photo. I then deleted Preferences using Command-Option on start up of FC. And still no music in my FC library. I also still have that little ? mark in the Music browser window in FC as shown in my first post. Any other thoughts?
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Hi Luis. Thanks again.
I went and checked my start up drive>user>Music and there are no files in there which is what I expected. As I mentioned, when I start Music, it opens with all my media correctly.
I went to my external hdd where my iTunes/Music folder is and found nothing out of the ordinary: no duplicate DB's and so on. I did find a folder called "previous Libraries" which I moved to trash, and then launched FCP and still the same empty Music folder with the ? mark as shown in the first screenshot.
Attached is a shot of my iTunes folder on the external HDD. One thing to note is my actual music files (hundreds of them) are all in the folder called "Music" not in the Media folder. I don't think this makes any difference since Music is finding them when I launch that, just not FCP.
At this point I may have to contact Apple. At this point the only thing I haven't tried is a clean install of FCP, but have a feeling that is not it.
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Hi(bonjour),
How your external drive is formatted?
Michel
Apfs the apple format. Drive is hdd. I did not have this issue with my old mbp 2018 intel. Only thing to change is the mbp to a 2026 m5. Thanks.
App by App permissions having to be manually set like this is driving me insane...
Security <-------------------------------------------------------------------------> Usability
Music not loading into Final Cut 12.3
