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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting
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I see Apples point to match the iOS and OS X experience as far as possible. However, Apple misses out on the fact that there is a reason to have an iOS and and an OS X device. OS X devices have a large screen as well as a keyboard and mostly more storage. Speaking for the Music APP I need other features to manage all files I have compared to my mobile device.
This weekend I downgraded to Mojave again. Or shall I say upgraded?
This weekend I downgraded to Mojave again. Or shall I say upgraded?
Does anyone know how to get rid of duplicate playlist or erase them all without doing it one by one
I’m curious, when did you start getting these? I started getting duplicated playlists when I upgraded to iOS 13 and synced my devices (so before Catalina).
I've still got a whole load of albums that aren't showing artwork that was (and still is) embedded in the files. My computer crashed while it was initially importing the library. Does anyone have any suggestions? Can you rebuild the artwork database, or force Music to reload from individual files?
Thats really concerning that they still didnt completely fix the artwork not showing up in Music. Thats why Ive still held off from updating to Catalina.
It works for all my folders on the sidebar except the add to tv and music folders??? Any thoughts?
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Anyone get this to work yet? I am having the same issue here....
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So yesterday I had a pretty scary night... upgraded to Catalina 10 Days ago and apart from some minor issues in fotos (no deletion on iphone when importing although box was checked) everything was okay, even migration to music app ... up until yesterday.
It started with single songs disappearing from playlists. Not in all of them but in some. Found them then in the music library in the cloud (these songs where all bought through itunes) and re-downloaded them. I found it strange because I knew I had stored the files on my mac... but I wondered maybe there was a new sync option or whatever I didnt check...
But then it got really scary: Songs I had bought through itunes in the last 5 years in another playlist also completely vanished from one click to another - only much older songs remained. I had my synched iphone as reference and the list went down from 400 to 30 songs in a playlist. But they were not only missing in the playlist but also in the complete music library and also on the hard drive in the file system. Shocking Heart Attack moment...
Unfortunately I did not find this thread but deleting the library file and reusing the old itunes one did not work. After long experiments and upcoming desperation the only solution that worked was CMD+R at startup and doing a complete rollback to a TM snapshot from 4 days ago. A ssd check also said my file system was corrupted and had to be repaired.
Is this a known issue or did someone experience a similar problem?
I‘m now so scared to use this buggy mess... will not start up the macbook again until the 10.15.1 Update is ready. Does anybody know if there will be some changed/ fixes to the Music app?
TLDR: Catalina and Music are so buggy that they even seem to mess up your file system. Do not upgrade at this point, or if its to late make backups and wait for the next patch.
It started with single songs disappearing from playlists. Not in all of them but in some. Found them then in the music library in the cloud (these songs where all bought through itunes) and re-downloaded them. I found it strange because I knew I had stored the files on my mac... but I wondered maybe there was a new sync option or whatever I didnt check...
But then it got really scary: Songs I had bought through itunes in the last 5 years in another playlist also completely vanished from one click to another - only much older songs remained. I had my synched iphone as reference and the list went down from 400 to 30 songs in a playlist. But they were not only missing in the playlist but also in the complete music library and also on the hard drive in the file system. Shocking Heart Attack moment...
Unfortunately I did not find this thread but deleting the library file and reusing the old itunes one did not work. After long experiments and upcoming desperation the only solution that worked was CMD+R at startup and doing a complete rollback to a TM snapshot from 4 days ago. A ssd check also said my file system was corrupted and had to be repaired.
Is this a known issue or did someone experience a similar problem?
I‘m now so scared to use this buggy mess... will not start up the macbook again until the 10.15.1 Update is ready. Does anybody know if there will be some changed/ fixes to the Music app?
TLDR: Catalina and Music are so buggy that they even seem to mess up your file system. Do not upgrade at this point, or if its to late make backups and wait for the next patch.
So, I've held off on Catalina because as much as I hate iTunes, I'm terrified to lose iTunes.
I've been using iTunes since 2004, before there was an iTunes store, and well before album art was a thing. Although today I only buy music through iTunes, this means that my library is sourced from multiple places, as is my artwork. I've also edited song tags over the years to fit a consistency motif that works for me.
My iTunes library is perfect both in terms of song tags and album art. I assure you though, that with iTunes, it has been a constant but manageable struggle to keep it that way.
Because of how far back my library goes and the various sources it is comprised from, I am absolutely terrified that I am going to lose tons of artwork, song tag info, or songs if and when I inevitably have to upgrade.
Is this going to be the case?
I've been using iTunes since 2004, before there was an iTunes store, and well before album art was a thing. Although today I only buy music through iTunes, this means that my library is sourced from multiple places, as is my artwork. I've also edited song tags over the years to fit a consistency motif that works for me.
My iTunes library is perfect both in terms of song tags and album art. I assure you though, that with iTunes, it has been a constant but manageable struggle to keep it that way.
Because of how far back my library goes and the various sources it is comprised from, I am absolutely terrified that I am going to lose tons of artwork, song tag info, or songs if and when I inevitably have to upgrade.
Is this going to be the case?
My iTunes library sounds a lot like yours. My earliest "date added" is in September 2003 and I've got thousands of self-ripped and self-imported tracks with meticulously curated tags and album art (in particular, I've been importing each year's SXSW MP3 torrent, many of which are super-obscure tracks that never made it to the iTunes store). I've also got plenty of music I've bought via the iTunes store. I do not subscribe to Apple Music (although I've been considering it). I had a lot of trepidation about migrating away from iTunes and to Music.
I should also add that my library is stored on a NAS and mounted via SMB. I'm not sure if that makes me feel more safe or less safe, to be honest.
I made multiple backups of everything before I upgraded to Catalina, just in case. But, for the most part, my interaction with the app hasn't changed much. My album art survived the transition. None of my tags have been mangled, all my playlists (smart and static) still work the way they did in iTunes. It has been an "ok" migration.
the Music app is definitely flaky and brittle. It does weird things all the time. I've got a thing right now where all of a sudden most of the songs in my library start showing a little "(!)" icon like the file is missing. But if I command-I on it, or even just try to play the track, it fixes itself and the warning disappears. If I quit and restart the Music app the problem goes away. This happens ever 2 or 3 days. I also don't like the extra step you need to do (shift-command-F) to filter the song list.
I was disappointed that the Music app doesn't seem any faster than iTunes was. I was hoping we'd see some performance improvement now that they've been able to rip out a bunch of unrelated code. Maybe that's "phase 2" of their plans. Mostly the migration has been "ok." I'm not happy, but I'm not unhappy. I do hold my breath when I use the app, and I expect that will fade over time if the app continues to behave itself. I hope Apple keep sufficient developer resources focused on the app as Catalina is further developed.
Still having some album artwork issues in latest beta of 10.15.1.
Honestly though, I'm not having many OS-level issues (Some third party apps need updating) besides Music. I just use Music/iTunes a lot, so the fact that it's the main app I'm having issues with is disappointing.
Honestly though, I'm not having many OS-level issues (Some third party apps need updating) besides Music. I just use Music/iTunes a lot, so the fact that it's the main app I'm having issues with is disappointing.
I have a playlist that appears in my Music App on my Mac, but doesn't appear on my iPhone, and yet my iPhone shows that the music is there, but the playlist is not. It disappeared when I added an album I obtained from Apple Music to the playlist. Syncing is enabled and according to Apple, I have everything that needs to be enabled, enabled. Should I build a new playlist and try again?
EDIT: Deleting and rebuilding the playlist resolved the issue. Yey me for figuring that out!
EDIT: Deleting and rebuilding the playlist resolved the issue. Yey me for figuring that out!
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I updated my 13” 2015 MBP to Catalina, and I noticed that Music is consuming over 20GB of RAM while rebuilding artwork! Most of my self ripped albums are missing the artwork!
I guess you can create a new playlist, move all the tracks from the previous playlist to the new one and delete the old playlist.
I've found that when music settings like sound enhancer are altered, they take a good amount of time to take effect
So aggravated that 10.15.1 did not address anything with Music. You can't close the app without force quitting. The artwork is constantly "adding". It causes the computer to reboot. I don't know how it got past first level QC. Has Apple made any timeline to fix the app at any point? I wish i had never upgraded.
omg seriously?! How annoying. I didn't even like the Music app anyway, certain functions require so many more clicks, it's stupid.
I am getting more and more fed up with this now. Didn't anyone test it out prior to release?!
that's what blowing me away. It's one thing to miss features, like Column View, which is very necessary when you have a huge db of music, but the bugs themselves is inexcusable.
What is your setup mate? Do you store the music on your Mac HDD or on the network?
All on my Mac HDD. I had NO problems previous to Catalina. Every issue i've seen someone else has reported so it doesn't appear to be isolated to me or a bad install.
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ps. we were in your amazing country last month. Had such a fun time. It was my first time in London in 31 years.
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ps. we were in your amazing country last month. Had such a fun time. It was my first time in London in 31 years.
31 years eh, that's how old I am!
Hmm, I just wonder if I tried upgrading again if it would be smooth now, someone else who stores the music on their network disk has said so. But then it's hard to tell as everyones case is different and I just don't like the Music UI anyway.