itunes stops playing music when I add a song to a playlist

I can confirm that as of October 12, 2017, this is still happening. Adding a currently playing Apple Music track to a playlist stops playback cold, makes the album artwork disappear from the screen, and causes great amounts of frustration.

Same here, music stops playing when adding song to my library from the playlist I currently listen to.

w_t_f Apple, are you even reading these messages?? You didn't fix the bug which was at the very best mentioned on March 10, 2017 (Music playback when adding songs to library) (!!!) and still no fixes. Jeez..

I never had this issue but now suddenly on the latest MacBook Pro and iTunes when I add a song (mostly streaming from Apple Music) to a Playlist through the right click option menu it more or less randomly stops playing and looses context. Really frustrating since all your playlist is lost.

The problem I have is a little more defined. If you add any playing now track from another's playlist, even Apple's playlist, to your library, then this track will have stopped and playlist will have cleared.

I just upgraded iTunes on 11/10/17 and the issue happens when ever I added the song to my library. Seems like it should have been a show stopper bug. Completely defeats the music enthusiast from adding tracks to their library.

SO frustrating that this is still happening in iTunes 12.7.2 (December 2017)... However, I did some Googling and found that at least someone has filed a Radar with Apple. Fingers crossed this brings about a fix soon...

rdar://35282268: Adding Apple Music song to playlist stops playback

Hi,

This has just STARTED happening to me... MacBook Pro; OS 10.12.6; iTunes v12.7.3.46.

Keeps the 'Up Next' list intact but re-plays stopped track from beginning and gives me 'about to play a new song' warning!

I have the same issue and have for as long as I can remember. The only workaround is to press the next track [fastforward] button afterwards and then it will not stop playback of the next song. This is incredibly frustrating as if I'm listening to somebody's playlist I can't add songs from it to my playlists easily without stopping the song

It is April 10, 2018, I am a new Mac user as of today and I have already stumbled upon this. My experience has been incredible and so far still is, but this is a little bothersome. As a music enthusiast it is emotional buffeting to abruptly have a brilliant song shut off on you, simply because you are enjoying it and would like to save it so you can listen to it again later. This happens to me both adding the song to my library or just saving it to a playlist.

Still in April 2018 with the latest version of iTunes on High Sierra there's this problem. I think it seems to happen more commonly when you're playing from a playlist - eg. select an Apple Music playlist, listen to some music, and press either "Add to Playlist" or even "Add to Library" and after a few seconds the music will stop, and as you say it loses all context of what's been played or where it's at, which is especially annoying on shuffle.

I've noticed the same behaviour on my phone too.

I love using Apple Music playlists to discover new stuff, but this bug has been around forever and does make it much harder to do so.

hello to jamiembrown and all music lovers reading this (so that doesn't include the guys at apple music who decided that eliminating my listening history from the playing now window on iOS was a good idea and also leaves out whoever is ignoring this thread's annoying bug)!!!

glad to see other aficionados out there who really love music and care about software features; sometimes it's comforting to feel you're not alone in the world :^)

jackgmarch's workaround is the only one I've found that really works but it s*cks that no one in apple music seems to give a sh*t about such an evident glitch; I wonder if this is just laziness on their side or if it really implies the kind of hard work that makes it really tough to come up with a solution (hard to believe given the means of the biggest corporation in the world);

come on, apple, just eat your own dog food, use apple music on a mac and see for yourself; why don't you listen to us and sort this thing out?

UPDATE: the guy(s) who decided to ignore this are too busy instructing the team in charge of this forum to censor any trace of so called "profanity"; the forum censors words like s*u*cks and sh*i*t and changes them to four asterisks; so busy no wonder they cannot devote time to proper music bugs...

Made an account just to say that this bug has also been affecting me. Hoping someone from Apple sees this and figures out a fix soon, it's very jarring and makes me want to go back to Spotify. Currently on a family plan and love my apple products so I would greatly prefer to stick with Apple music, but when the two services are so similar but one doesn't bother me on a daily basis, it's hard to stay with the buggier one!

I have the same problem and it really discourages me

Yeah I get the exact same thing. It's pretty frustrating!