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Music - Missing Features, Bugs, Issues & Troubleshooting
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Unfortunately, as each year, there are audio cut-offs during playback... so the app is not really usable atm.
If they aren’t changing it, and they aren’t fixing it, then what are they doing? Drawing emojis wearing headphones is my guess.
Makes sense considering some features or bugs might be tied to a specific release.
In the current version on Monterey (v1.2.4.3), the Album Artwork column in the main library has a bug where the Medium artwork size won't persist when the application is restarted. Small and Large both work fine, and Medium works fine on playlists.
I unfortunately went through the process of trashing the entire com.apple.Music preference domain to try to resolve this, but no dice. 😕
I unfortunately went through the process of trashing the entire com.apple.Music preference domain to try to resolve this, but no dice. 😕
I noticed you can finally turn off Apple Music in Monterrey again. This post will serve as my yearly reminder/rant that this app is still complete garbage. On all my Intel Macs I use iTunes, but since iTunes doesn't work on M1 I'm forced to use this pathetic attempt at a music cataloging app.
when editing a track, or if tracks are downloading somewhere else, it will jump me to the bottom of the list or somewhere down at the least
annoying as hell
iTunes used to do something similar, still does, if you are adding the library whilst scrolling.
Retroactive can install iTunes on later macOS. 12.9.5 doesn't seem to play nice on M1 but I have it running on Monterey and Big Sur machines perfectly. WAY faster and less resource hungry than the garbage Music app.
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I was always a bit weary about using retroactive since it might stop working someday so I stayed on Mojave as the Music app is a no go for me, but I should probably try this someday.
When you install it can you just copy over your iTunes files? I assume Music changes your media file location etc when you install Montery.
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Yes, just copy your iTunes folder and navigate it to your library when you open it.
You got that right - Music is a garbage app! And i can’t believe Apple just replaced iTunes with it…
Apple - Give us back our iTunes!
I’ve got a intel 27 inch iMac 2017 (3.8 i5) so I hope there won’t be any issues with retroactive or Monterey overall.
12.9.5 doesn't work on Apple Silicon. It works fine on every 10.15.x thru 12.5 Intel machine I have.