Music App in Monterey is horrible.

[roenpoe]

MacOS Music app isn't the best app, ain't it. For example navigating playlists and sorting between tabs (Album, BPM, Genre etc.) is terrible. Searches do not show the correct results, importing tracks always skip a song or three. Very annoying. A large ALAC library, (almost) never caused any problems in de past. Using iTunes from the beginning, great, but lately Music App is getting worse by the day. NOT usable, no fixes, buggy as sh*t. Change my mind.

edit: Oh, and I don't want to buy music in Music! I Want to browse my OWN music.

 

[Big Bad D]

So don’t use Music app? Why do you want people to change your mind?

 

[roenpoe]

So don’t use Music app? Why do you want people to change your mind?

No proper alternative

 

[bsamcash]

VLC.

 

[Big Bad D]

No proper alternative

Swinsian? Never used it as I am happy with Music, but recall some positive reviews.

 

[FHoff]

Music works fine for me.

 

[J.Gallardo]

MacOS Music app isn't the best app, ain't it. For example navigating playlists and sorting between tabs (Album, BPM, Genre etc.) is terrible. Searches do not show the correct results, importing tracks always skip a song or three. Very annoying. A large ALAC library, (almost) never caused any problems in de past. Using iTunes from the beginning, great, but lately Music App is getting worse by the day. NOT usable, no fixes, buggy as sh*t. Change my mind.

edit: Oh, and I don't want to buy music in Music! I Want to browse my OWN music.

You are right. Even iTunes became unusable for me, having my own music and being "Apple Music" subscriber at same time; it was a total chaos.
I realised Apple wanted its app to be used for AppleMusic.
I use Audirvana for my music, but there're cheaper options. Slowly but surely, new software for "owned music libraries" will appear; a lot of people is quitting Apple's app.
This seems interesting: https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

 

[Fishrrman]

OP wrote:
"No proper alternative"

You can still use iTunes, if you wish.

Download the free utility app called "Retroactive":

GitHub - cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive: Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve.

Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve. - ...

github.com

It will install and "patch" iTunes to work with Monterey.

 

[roenpoe]

Is there a way to install other versions of Music App?

edit: Now installing Retroactieve, curious!

Because I think iTunes/Music.App is better then alternatives like VLC and Audirvana when it comes to navigating and editing playlists with music from my own collection, but NOT with latest versions

 

[roenpoe]

OP wrote:
"No proper alternative"

You can still use iTunes, if you wish.

Download the free utility app called "Retroactive":

GitHub - cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive: Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve.

Retroactive has been discontinued. You should transition from Retroactive to supported apps such as Music, iTunes for Windows, iMazing, Photos, Darktable, Lightroom Classic, and DaVinci Resolve. - ...

github.com

It will install and "patch" iTunes to work with Monterey.

Wow, this is it (so far so good) Thanks!