Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but is there no way to reorder the current playback queue? I'm trying to drag songs to change the order and they don't move. I swear this used to work in iTunes.
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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting
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It's super buggy. Often doesn't work for me either in situations where it should.
Same here. It has become a sad joke. Spotify has nothing to worry about unless Apple finally decides to put some effort and resources into fixing Apple Music. For some reason they prefer to waste time with animated album covers and yesterday's fiasco announcement for lossless.
To paraphrase Brando, Apple Music could'a had class. Could'a been a contender. Could'a been something, instead of a bum, which is what it is, let's face it.
This isnt so much a bug but a complaint / request, but I wish the 'New Releases' section on 'Listen Now' was more prominent and not buried in the bottom. That or I wish I could pin it somewhere for easy access.
Personally being notified of new albums from artists I listen to or being able to see whats new is way more important to me than random playlists or 'stations' (whatever those even are).
'Browse' is the most useless section, its all just albums of celebrities I hate and genres I have no interest in, but at least they get a 'New Music' section prominently if you're into completely random new music
Personally being notified of new albums from artists I listen to or being able to see whats new is way more important to me than random playlists or 'stations' (whatever those even are).
'Browse' is the most useless section, its all just albums of celebrities I hate and genres I have no interest in, but at least they get a 'New Music' section prominently if you're into completely random new music
Sorry, don't have time to read all 20 pages in this thread at the moment, maybe it's already been discussed.
I somehow managed to transfer my iTunes library to the Music app on my MBA M1 with Big Sur. It's all there, except about half the album art is now missing. I have 25k songs in the library now running off an external HD. I sometimes see in the bottom left something about 'updating album art', but not for long, and nothing seems to have been updated. I read somewhere that the Music app might get around to updating it all at some point. This is not acceptable, it needs to happen now, I want my album art back as I've spent the better part of the last 10 years adding it all. Now I can still access my library on my old 2011 MBP complete with album art, but that machine is getting old and so I'm trying not to use it too much anymore.
I somehow managed to transfer my iTunes library to the Music app on my MBA M1 with Big Sur. It's all there, except about half the album art is now missing. I have 25k songs in the library now running off an external HD. I sometimes see in the bottom left something about 'updating album art', but not for long, and nothing seems to have been updated. I read somewhere that the Music app might get around to updating it all at some point. This is not acceptable, it needs to happen now, I want my album art back as I've spent the better part of the last 10 years adding it all. Now I can still access my library on my old 2011 MBP complete with album art, but that machine is getting old and so I'm trying not to use it too much anymore.
i assume youve highlighted them all and clicked 'get album art' like in itunes, yea?
im guessing the missing art was art that was not manually part of the audio files and instead in the itunes library, and would need to be rebuilt
Why would I need to 'get album art' that's already been got, yea? About 99% of the art was obtained automatically when I ripped from CD. The other 1% was manually downloaded from Discogs, but oddly enough most of that manually added art is not missing.
Moral of the story, all the art is still there, if I open it in iTunes on my old laptop. My question is why is the new Music app on my €1000 laptop not seeing it all? If it is in fact a bug that Apple might get around to fixing sometime this century, then so be it. At least I'll know to stop trying to fix something I can't.
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Because it hasnt 'got got', it's stored in an iTunes cache if its not embedded in the file itself. That's why the 1% you added remained, it's embedded in the file metadata itself so was able to cross the pond from iTunes to Music without issue.
Ok great, so how do I make all my art cross the abyss from iTunes to the Music app? You'd think it would be a whole lot more intuitive, unless I've missed something really simple and small. Migrating old iPhoto and iMovie libraries was easy enough.
Is it just me or latest Music on Big Sur comes to focus a split second late after a click?
When I click the Music window, global menu bar switches immediately but the window updates a tad after.
Super annoying.
When I click the Music window, global menu bar switches immediately but the window updates a tad after.
Super annoying.
I've been using The Weeknd as my lossless test since I knew his stuff was 'Apple Digital Master' and recent. Checked and have the same issue as you - it was AAC and fine, download, and it is now HLS Media and no longer plays.
Another fail for Apple Music, pushing MacOS updates that break playback of....music
Well, after upgrading to Big Sur 11.4, and Music 1.1.5.74 things actually got worse.
Now, in addition to the problems above almost no songs will update "Last played" when finished playing**.
Since I "depend" on a lot of Smart playlists for my listening habits this is really annoying, since none of those playlists work as intended when last play/playcount isn't updated for any songs. Yesterday I played the same playlist (more or less) continuous for 6-7 hours and a total of 7 (!) songs "registered" as played and ended up on the Recently Played smart list (which isn't a point in itself, but an indicator that Last Played has been updated).
Gonna try the old cure-for-all-iTunes-problems: Sign-out/un-authorize, then re-authorize/sign-in, but I'm not optimistic.
** Playing songs on my iPhone seems to be updating the "Last Played" and play count.
Yes, my Music App Problems getting even worse since the update to 11.3.1 Big Sur (Macbook M1 Air).
When I'm streaming to the HomePods, the music playing bar stops after one or two songs (like in the pic) and the stream stops after the song is fully played (queue is full).
No problems when I stream from the iPhone to the HomePods.
I was in contact with the Apple Support, but they have no clue how to help.
Sign out and unathorize didn't help, MacOS reinstall didn't help. Maybe I have to downgrade to 11.2.3?!
When I'm streaming to the HomePods, the music playing bar stops after one or two songs (like in the pic) and the stream stops after the song is fully played (queue is full).
No problems when I stream from the iPhone to the HomePods.
I was in contact with the Apple Support, but they have no clue how to help.
Sign out and unathorize didn't help, MacOS reinstall didn't help. Maybe I have to downgrade to 11.2.3?!
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The Spacebar still acts as a pause/play button for me in Music. I have noticed, though, that the cursor seems to end up in the Search field now when I don't intend it to.
basically what I'm experiencing. Sometimes it pauses, other times it wants to put the cursor in the search and search the keypress itself.
Not sure if anyone else is seeing this, but if I'm streaming from my Mac to my paired Homepods playcounts are only sporadically being updated. Sometimes they update, sometimes they don't. If I play music directly using my Mac speakers playcounts update as they normally would. I rely a great deal on smart playlists and this is kind of a pain and definitely started with the most recent update.
Just checked and this is only happening on the Mac version of the Music app - playcounts are registering fine on my iPhone and iPad when streaming to homepods.
Just checked and this is only happening on the Mac version of the Music app - playcounts are registering fine on my iPhone and iPad when streaming to homepods.
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Problem with some radiostations after BigSur 11.4/AM 1.1.5.74
After upgrading to 11.4 and Apple Music 1.1.5.74 some of the radiostations (TuneIn) won't start.
I have tried multiple ones and only half of them work.
The following work:
Kink - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/kink/ra.1461146131
QMusic Non-stop - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/qmusic-non-stop/ra.1461546950
100% NL - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/100-nl/ra.1460981508
But the following do not work:
Radio Veronica - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/radio-veronica/ra.1461198804
NPO Radio 1 - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/npo-radio-1/ra.1461225009
I have tried the same stations at tunein.com and the stations do work over there.
They also work when I try it from my iPhone (Music app and Sonos app) and even my old MacMini (Catalina with only iTunes).
Support from Apple is a joke
I contacted support and this didn't help much; spend an hour on the phone and all they could come up with was;
- log out of AM, restart and log in again (didn't work)
- make a new user and try it from that profile (didn't work)
- re-install the complete OS (didn't work)
I asked them if they could confirm the stations do work on their machine with BigSur 11.4 and AM 1.1.5.74 installed. If that was the case then the problem would be with my profile and/or device. But if this was not the case it could be a wider problem between Apple Music and TuneIn.com. To my big surprise the senior support adviser told me that they do not have access to Apple Music so they could not check if the stations are working for them.
How is this possible; a helpdesk without access the product your supporting (Apple Music in this case)?
Help with testing if stations work?
Can anyone with an Apple Music account, working on a MacBook (pro 15-inch, 2016) and on BigSur 11.4 with Apple Music 1.1.5.74; that the stations Radio Veronica or NPO Radio 1 still work?
After upgrading to 11.4 and Apple Music 1.1.5.74 some of the radiostations (TuneIn) won't start.
I have tried multiple ones and only half of them work.
The following work:
Kink - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/kink/ra.1461146131
QMusic Non-stop - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/qmusic-non-stop/ra.1461546950
100% NL - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/100-nl/ra.1460981508
But the following do not work:
Radio Veronica - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/radio-veronica/ra.1461198804
NPO Radio 1 - https://music.apple.com/nl/station/npo-radio-1/ra.1461225009
I have tried the same stations at tunein.com and the stations do work over there.
They also work when I try it from my iPhone (Music app and Sonos app) and even my old MacMini (Catalina with only iTunes).
Support from Apple is a joke
I contacted support and this didn't help much; spend an hour on the phone and all they could come up with was;
- log out of AM, restart and log in again (didn't work)
- make a new user and try it from that profile (didn't work)
- re-install the complete OS (didn't work)
I asked them if they could confirm the stations do work on their machine with BigSur 11.4 and AM 1.1.5.74 installed. If that was the case then the problem would be with my profile and/or device. But if this was not the case it could be a wider problem between Apple Music and TuneIn.com. To my big surprise the senior support adviser told me that they do not have access to Apple Music so they could not check if the stations are working for them.
How is this possible; a helpdesk without access the product your supporting (Apple Music in this case)?
Help with testing if stations work?
Can anyone with an Apple Music account, working on a MacBook (pro 15-inch, 2016) and on BigSur 11.4 with Apple Music 1.1.5.74; that the stations Radio Veronica or NPO Radio 1 still work?
I tried a few of the jazz stations today and two or three did not work. Tim better start looking at Apple Music ASAP before they are even further behind Spotify. The performance on my Mac is terrible.