Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting

[tomtad]

Few things I've noticed in beta 2:

• Selection outlines now appearing when hovering over the lyrics and upcoming buttons, however nothing yet for the play/pauses buttons which also have outlines in Podcasts.
• Animated playlist artwork in Listen Now are now present, the same as iOS
• Mute and full volume glyphs on the volume slider are now selectable and change colour when clicked

 

[Traverse]

Has anyone noticed any performance increases in the Music app between Catalina and Big Sur? I was pretty disappointed when upgrading from Mojave to Catalina and discovering that the mostly smooth scrolling in iTunes was now very jagged. I’m hoping they’re refined that a bit.

 

[nortonandreev]

Has anyone noticed any performance increases in the Music app between Catalina and Big Sur? I was pretty disappointed when upgrading from Mojave to Catalina and discovering that the mostly smooth scrolling in iTunes was now very jagged. I’m hoping they’re refined that a bit.

It’s currently worse than what it was on Catalina, but this is kinda system-wide, so I expect it to get better later on.

 

[inket]

Is anyone else having issues displaying artwork? I have 988 albums and only 2 have artwork for some reason.

Right click > Get Album Artwork didn't help, and I haven't tried to check "Automatically update artwork" in case that causes some of my MP3 albums to lose their embedded artwork.

I tried deleting ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Music but it didn't help. (that used to help back in the iTunes days I think?

 

[return2sendai]

All these young kids, telling us iTunes is dead and we crusties should adapt to this new Music app thing, well, those young cowpokes should mosey on over to:

PowerPC Macs

Power Mac, PowerBook, iMac Gx, iBook, etc...

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[haralds]

I changed to Music with much pain in Catalina, but now have my large curated library under control.
Upgrading to Big Sur Beta 1 was a disaster. It did not copy the Music file info from the Catalina library or upgrade the index. I had to reimport everything and it promptly started duplicated everything in my iCloud library.
Has anybody had better luck with Beta 2.

 

[funkypepper]

Does one still has to restart Music manually to get Apple Music connection after a system restart?

 

[mk313]

Apologize if this isn't the right thread, but this seems like the most knowledgable thread here on Apple Music. I can't find a way to search with a playlist. I feel like this was something I could do back in iTunes.

The only way I can figure out to do it now is to sort my playlist by whatever metric I'm looking for, then look for the artist/ song/ album, etc. The problem with this is that I have my most used playlist sorted by least recently played, and every time I change the sort order, it re-syncs to my phone & watch, and it takes forever, sucks down the battery life and makes the phone unusable (every app that I try to use is unresponsive and eventually crashes).

 

[ErikGrim]

Apologize if this isn't the right thread, but this seems like the most knowledgable thread here on Apple Music. I can't find a way to search with a playlist. I feel like this was something I could do back in iTunes.

It's my number one complaint. Hiding away the filter field, the MAIN UX interaction with my playlists other than selecting songs. And you have to activate it every time you switch playlists!

 

[TonyM42]

Is anyone else having issues displaying artwork? I have 988 albums and only 2 have artwork for some reason.

Right click > Get Album Artwork didn't help, and I haven't tried to check "Automatically update artwork" in case that causes some of my MP3 albums to lose their embedded artwork.

I tried deleting ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Music but it didn't help. (that used to help back in the iTunes days I think?

Exact same problem. Did you find a solution yet?

Update.....I waited for Beta3 to see if that might correct the issue, but it didn’t so I opted to reinstall all my artwork images - 958 albums in my case....took the whole of yesterday, and imagine my relief after turning off my Mac, then turning it on today and they were all still there!!

 

[Divegent]

I'm not sure, but wasn't it possible before to have right-click on both the two finger tap and the bottom corner click? Now I can only choose one in the trackpad settings.

EDIT: This seems to be not related to Big Sur, but to upgrade vs. set up new. Another user here reported the same issue on an older version of macOS / Mac OS X. I now just clean-installed my MacBook with the Beta for the first time since years and the double option for the right-click seems to have stayed there all the time while I just upgraded. But in the link above is also a solution. Just follow the steps of the second answer and paste the terminal commands (all lines!) and restart your Mac to make it work again.

 

[nortonandreev]

It's version 1.1.0.186 in Beta 3. Some of the changes/fixes I have found:
- It has the iOS 14 icon
- The results box now appears properly
- It doesn't crash when having input larger than the size of the search field
- Right clicking on an item within the “Browse” and “Listen Now” content areas no longer opens the contextual menu at a random location. I believe the issue started occurring in Catalina, but it is resolved now.
- There's a new "Play" icon. Seems more like a bug (hopefully)

 

[ErikGrim]

Hey everyone, are you filing bugs? Surely I'm not the only one who has filed this?
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Here's a fun one too. Because the search box is part of the sidebar list, it disappears up with the scroll:

 

[Ritsuka]

Drag & drop from Apple Music to a playlist now works.

 

[tkermit]

Hey everyone, are you filing bugs? Surely I'm not the only one who has filed this?
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Here's a fun one too. Because the search box is part of the sidebar list, it disappears up with the scroll:

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What’s worse, even the shortcut to activate the search field stops working when you scroll away from it. On Catalina at least - or has this been fixed?

 

[ErikGrim]

What’s worse, even the shortcut to activate the search field stops working when you scroll away from it. On Catalina at least - or has this been fixed?

Yes!

It has been fixed in that command-F does nothing!

 

[orangedog6]

Unfortunately, I've downgraded back to Catalina after having Big Sur developers beta since release. I think the real issues started at about 1:30am when I was woken up by the startup sound from the Mac which was rather startling! It happened again as it was doing updates. (the Mac was asleep with the lid down) Then I've had issues with green icons in the settings menu and on the Touch Bar like others have experienced. My keyboard backlights had also stopped working in beta 3. I'm looking forward to the main release of it though when hopefully all the bugs have been ironed out!

 

[ErikGrim]

Unfortunately, I've downgraded back to Catalina after having Big Sur developers beta since release.

Wrong thread my friend

 

[SEmAN]

Has Big Sur fixed the problem where the music stops when a song is added from Apple Music to library?

 

[inket]

Exact same problem. Did you find a solution yet?

Update.....I waited for Beta3 to see if that might correct the issue, but it didn’t so I opted to reinstall all my artwork images - 958 albums in my case....took the whole of yesterday, and imagine my relief after turning off my Mac, then turning it on today and they were all still there!!

No solution yet. I still have hope that it will be fixed in a future beta since my mp3 files still have the artwork in their ID3 tags. Reinstalling the artwork for all 900+ albums would take way too long for me ? Might be possible to fix it using AppleScript but I'll hold until the GM before exploring fixes like that.

 

[ErikGrim]

2 bugs fixed in 1.1.0.208:

• Play icon being cut off
• Genius Results no longer return an error (?)

1 new bug introduced:

• Shuffle and Repeat icons don't appear until you click Shuffle in a playlist. Icons don't work when clicked (new in 1.1.0.208)

 

[ErikGrim]

Has anyone noticed any performance increases in the Music app between Catalina and Big Sur? I was pretty disappointed when upgrading from Mojave to Catalina and discovering that the mostly smooth scrolling in iTunes was now very jagged. I’m hoping they’re refined that a bit.

Scrolling my 110K+ library in song view is buttery smooth on my first get 5K iMac. Side by side with iTunes it feels exactly the same.

 

[funkypepper]

I wonder if they fixed the MiniPlayer reposition bug. It used to work in iTunes, but not in Music. The worse thing is, it works on my external display, but not on my MBP retina.

Let me explain:

- Move the MP to the bottom side of the screen.
- Toggle lyrics or playlist
- Observe MP album art move upwards
- Toggle list again
- It stays there, does not move back below

IT'S SO ANNOYING! Reported it already long time ago, and still continue to update whenever a new release comes out. This time I'm staying on Catalina until BS goes stable.

 

[RednBlue]

Not sure if this is unique to me or a general glitch, but I discovered that Music had reset my Equaliser settings to flat default. No great problem to put them back to how I like them but just wondered if same for everyone.

 

[Ritsuka]

The MiniPlayer goes back to the bottom when you hide the lyrics.