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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting
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Yes. It is back.
Please go to this thread for further discussions of Music in Big Sur. This is for Catalina only.
It might be worth trying for some of y'all. I have about 500GB in iCloud and store all of it local on 2 machines. It could be laggy when scrolling the recently added which is what I usually use. I cleaned up the genres from about 160 to around 20 and it actually seems to have less lag. I have no idea if its a placebo or not but I think it helped.
So here is the final resolution to this issue.
If I right click on an album cover and select "clear downloaded artwork", nothing happens immediately but when I quit Music and restart the album cover reappears. Must have been a glitch in the downloaded artwork configuration files.
It has to be done for each album, but fortunately they can be selected in batches and all done at once.
Has anyone tried to transfer a backup of apple music from one PC to another? So from Imac to a Macbook. Which folders need to be backed up. With me the last downloads were gone. Various covers were also no longer available and so on. I had copied the iTunes folder and the Apple Music folder. I think I forgot something. Can someone help please.
I'm currently in the process of re-rating my library and re-sorting in playlists - been working on it for a few months. With iTunes under Mojave this wasn't an issue, but I find I have to quit and relaunch Music every so often for things like double clicking no longer playing songs or now sometimes the star-rating area when you hover over a song stops showing up (I can still use the menu command though). These are so many tiny issues and never existed before.
No, this is not currently possible in the music.app. It is another example of the application not being properly optimize for larger displays.
I'm currently on Mojave which is D-1 release of the support cycle for my machine but I wonder have they fixed this travesty of a design in Music after burying iTunes?
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Haven't gone through every page, but (so far) don't think I have seen anything about this issue:
When I double click a playlist, Music selects and plays some random audio file that is NOT actually on that playlist!
When I double click a playlist, Music selects and plays some random audio file that is NOT actually on that playlist!
1.0.6.10 Seems to have less scrolling lag on my Quad i7 but there is still some. Sad this is the final version of Music that many perfectly good computers are going to get.
Still some glitches, some annoying. When I buy an album, the playlist of the album is duplicated, all songs twice. One is local an other is with the cloud symbol, I have to delete those little clouds. This does not change anything, I can hear the musics everywhere. Maybe will be corrected in .6 update, however, I am downgrading to Mojave, I'm done with Catalina, at list I will be able to play my games again, and make use of those old but still useful 32 bit apps.
I thought I imported iTunes into Music properly. I haven't been using it a lot, probably because I had the feeling I'd get a headache. Now every time I search for a song and click play the item can't be found, even though it's in the "playlist." I search the database, find it and click use the location for further searches. Then I play selected item, and Music crashes. I relaunch Music and it plays the item. But this happens over and over and over and over again. Clues people? I put this on an external SSD inside a Sonnet Flex J3i.
Apologies if this subject as been covered already.
Apologies if this subject as been covered already.
Do shared playlists work at all in the Music app? I have a Mini running Mojave and iTunes that I use as a media server with Home Sharing. I can access all my playlists on two Apple TV's and two old Macs in iTunes under Sierra. On my new Mini with Catalina, I can access all the music on the server and it shows my playlists. But when I choose a playlist, it is blank (although it shows the total number of songs at the top). If I switch the playlist view to songs, it is still blank. If I switch the view to albums, the Music app crashes.
Any ideas of how to fix this?
Any ideas of how to fix this?
I must be doing something wrong here.
Just to walk thru a typical scenario using the Music app.
1. I'll shuffle songs within a playlist I created. The playlist has the album (artwork/cover) view selected.
Every once in a while, I want to hear a specific song as the Music app shuffles thru all songs in the playlist.
2. So I search an album within the playlist, click to enter the album and select a song to play.
3. Music app plays the song and then starts to only shuffle thru songs within that album even when I have exited out of that album and are currently looking at all the albums (album art) within the playlist.
When using the album art view for a playlist, is there anyway I can have the Music app always shuffle every song/album within the playlist?
Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but I just couldn't find it.
Just to walk thru a typical scenario using the Music app.
1. I'll shuffle songs within a playlist I created. The playlist has the album (artwork/cover) view selected.
Every once in a while, I want to hear a specific song as the Music app shuffles thru all songs in the playlist.
2. So I search an album within the playlist, click to enter the album and select a song to play.
3. Music app plays the song and then starts to only shuffle thru songs within that album even when I have exited out of that album and are currently looking at all the albums (album art) within the playlist.
When using the album art view for a playlist, is there anyway I can have the Music app always shuffle every song/album within the playlist?
Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but I just couldn't find it.
You are using the global search function, not the "filter" function, so you are essentially searching for and starting playing an album. You can easily confirm this by searching for an album / song NOT in your current playlist.
Thanks for the reply. But I should have made it more clear. When I said “search” I meant scrolling thru the album view within the playlist, not using the global search text box.
If I remember l correctly, previously if you select an album within a playlist under the album view option, the album would expand in place to list songs within it. So, you’ll see all the albums within the playlist along with the selected album expanding in place with the list of songs for that particular album.
But now clicking on an album switches out from the album view of the playlist to a screen that only shows content within the selected album. From there I just can’t seem to find a way to continue shuffling all songs/albums in the playlist after finish playing a song within a selected album.
Of course, I can wait for the song to finish, exit back out to where you see all the albums in the playlist, and then press the shuffle button. But that's just a hassle to play a specific song during a shuffle and then go back to shuffling.
Forgot to add, the only reason I am experimenting with the album view option is because we no longer can view album art with the songs view (just like some mentioned above).
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But you can?
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Can you not just while playing shuffle, go to the song you want right click and hit "Play Next"? That will return you to your playlist shuffle once played.
Hmm, I just don’t see that option in song view? Is it available in Catalina?
And thanks for the “play next” tip. Don’t know why that never occurred to me. Although its still not the same, especially when it works just fine under song view (call me impatient, but when I want to listen to something I want to listen to it now, not after the current song finishes). I would expect how the Music app plays songs would be the same regardless of what view option you selected. Just doesn’t seem like Apple when making the same interactions in a playlist would be different because I’m using a different view.
Plus, even aside from that, exiting out and in of the album view list just to select a particular song in an album among that list just doesn’t feel right either. Wonder if this is still the case with Big Sur.
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