Apple Music Apple Music cannot handle my external hard drive

[Joeinpdx]

I have had a 4 TB external hard drive for years and used Monterey until November of 2022. I never had issues with my large music library prior to updating. After updating to Ventura things have never been the same. My computer often does not stream to my Apple TV. Play counts don't register. The software is extremely sluggish. Apple Music crashes occasionally. Very, very buggy all in all. I get the feeling that Apple doesn't want to support users with external hard drives and want to move users to their streaming service. I will never do that because no streaming service has everything that I have and I want control of my music library. This is really frustrating. Apple used to respect their users. I don't think they do anymore.

 

[russell_314]

I doubt this is some conspiracy with Apple trying to push you to streaming. I’m sure they prefer everyone pays $10 a month or whatever but they’re not going to do some crazy thing to slow down your hard drive.

Check your hard drive and back it up. This sounds like it might be going bad. I hope you have back ups of your music.

 

[pup]

I’m going to bet that your external drive isn’t APFS formatted. OS updates would have reformatted your boot drive but not externals.

I haven’t seen it documented, but Music on the last few releases doesn’t seem to work well with other formats, and really got bad with Ventura. Especially ExFAT, which in my experience will make Music with an external drive practically nonfunctional.