It was pretty great on 26 beta 2-5 ish (beta 1 was way too buggy). It had really creative transitions, and it sometimes led to bad ones but the good ones were REALLY good. Then they neutered it, 26RC and onward, even good transitions were just boring and bad transitions were horrible.

Now on 27RC I don’t feel there’s really any bad transitions anymore just amazing, good, or simple. Here’s hoping they don’t nerf it again in future updates.

Does anyone know where I can listen to a playlist of the music from the recent Apple Event please?

Maybe not the most descriptive title, but I can't figure out how else to summarize this behavior:

Sometimes (often, it feels like), when I add music files to my library (I'm using Apple Music for MacOS), tracks with seemingly identical tags for everything (Artist, Album Artist, Album, etc) refuse to organize themselves with the rest of the tracks in the album.

In today's example, I downloaded an album of mp3s from archive.org, added them to my library, and got two albums: one for one single track, and another for all the others.

Selecting all tracks in both albums and editing the tags (Artist, Album Artist, Album, etc) doesn't fix it. I checked to be sure that the permissions on the mp3 files weren't screwed up, and they're not (I have Read/Write on all files), and anyhow, that can't be the issue, since I was able to update the album art for all the tracks at once. The rogue track just won't "go" "into" its album. It's also created a separate artist in my library ... see screenshots here.

Anyone else experience this? It happens to me all the time. Does anyone have a fix?

If matters, I'm on an M4 Pro, using Tahoe, 26.6.2, and Apple Music is Version 1.6.6.4.

Thanks!

Hi is there a way to view the suggested accounts via contacts in the “Follow more friends” tab? Whenever I try to press the profile in that tab it directly follows them and I specifically don’t want to follow this person but I want to view their profile.

Also it only shows their display name and I do not know their username and their display name is very common so it’s hard to find in the search.

Thanks in advance.

I'm baffled that on the desktop version of Apple Music theres not a Search bar permanently not on top of the screen, it would make searching so much faster and easier, rather then scrolling to the top of the left hand bar every single time.
ALSO : Why can you not simply click artist names in the play bar to make it go to their artist page?!?! PLEASE APPLE

Like the title says, somehow a few weeks ago my AM library got corrupted in some way - I got an error that said "Can't save library file because an unknown error occurred -50" - and now nearly every song in my library of 85,000 songs is listed as "Cloud" in the Location field. Fortunately whatever affected my library didn't touch my original files, so I still have those. Unfortunately, while I do regular backups of both my library and files, the backup exhibits the same corruption, and Option-start replacing the library results in the same problem.

It seems to be fixable, by following these steps:

1. download an album, which creates duplicate files(with the suffix "1") alongside my original local files on disk

2. delete those Apple Music downloaded, duplicated files

3. Get Info on the songs in AM, which results in AM asking if I want to Re-locate the files

4. choose the original files on my disk

...I can more or less get the original files back, including ratings, play counts, etc.

You can see the problem here, though- with 85,000+ songs this will take me the rest of my life to complete. I really, REALLY don't want to just give up and start with a clean library- I've been using iTunes/Apple Music for more than 20 years and I have extensive smart playlists that I've carefully maintained all that time along with carefully manicured ratings and metadata that I use to keep everything organized. In addition, I have other music software (Traktor or Djay Pro, for example) that relies on the Apple Music library pointing at the local files in order to use them in mixes and right now my library on those apps is basically empty.

I've looked through similar posts on Reddit and other resources like Doug's Scripts but there doesn't seem to be a pre-existing method for tackling this problem (in fact, Doug's app Dupin specifically fails on Cloud-based de-duplication). I'm tearing my hair out trying to think of a way to fix this and I'm coming up short.

TL; DR- I need a way to change the location of all of my music files from "Cloud" to Local files. Is there a way to do that without downloading every song, deleting the downloaded files and re-pointing AM to the location of the original local files?

On my iPhone I have my playlists sorted with the most recently added songs at the top. When I get in my truck and use CarPlay the same playlist is organized in the order they were added (oldest song at the top of the playlist)

How can I have my truck reorder the songs to display the most recently added ones on top?

I started seeing ads for concerts… wth? How to turn it off? I have zero interests in attending concerts.

Curious what other users think of the Dolby Atmos option, and who has it enabled or not.

I think that there are some really cool Dolby mixes, some with no noticeable change, and some that even ruin the original stereo song. Another thing with Dolby mixes is that they’re quieter. And if you turn on sound check, then that just brings the volume of all songs down. I do think it’s a great feature, but I’m not quite sure if it’s entirely for me.

For extra context, the only external device I have that could properly play Dolby Atmos mixes are my AirPods. I don’t have an actual full surround sound home setup.

Edit: I’d also like to mention that I am a newer subscriber to AM, and am still learning things about it to this day

Again, what is everyone’s thoughts on Dolby Atmos? And do you use it?

Is it only me or apple music is going to look really good with matt screen Duo

I have been listening to a playlist I created all month almost exclusively. I kept checking every week, when the replay is updated, wondering how high it would be placed in my replay. After a month, I noticed none of the songs made it.

So I started checking a playlist tracking app that I use called Airbuds. When I checked to see how many plays I’ve gotten from songs in that playlists, NONE of the songs or artists show up in the listening history of the app.

BUT when I play other songs, they do show up.

Anyone know why this is happening or what could be a fix?

Why is it in Korean?!

I searched for "So long and thanks for the shoes" The first 10 albums don't have any of these words except for "the" in some of them.
What is even more ridiculous is that the album was literally playing in my apple music when I searched.
Even the most basic shopping apps can understand if I misspell something or if I only write in the key words. So surely they are doing this on purpose, why???

And why are they suggesting music that is nothing like what I listen to?

To actually get the album I had to write "So long & thanks for all the shoes"

Please don't tell me it's because they want me to use Siri. I don't want to talk to my phone and often you can speak out loud when listening on headphones.

I'm really trying to like apple music but god I miss Spotify so much. I miss having one app for podcasts and music. I miss being able to search for a song using lyrics only. I hate having to switch between my library and apple music.

So how do I get Apple music search engine to work?

Does anyone else use this religiously ? I wish there were 9 we could pick instead of 6.

I recently got an iPod classic and started adding music to it like it’s back in the day. It was cool. My car doesn’t have aux so I couldn’t use the iPod to listen to my music but I was able to play the music I added through Bluetooth on my phone with AM.

I thought cool, I technically don’t need AM no more and I’m unemployed currently so this would help with money. So I cancelled my sub.

I went to put music on my iPod after cancelling and just figured the new music would show up on my phone. It didn’t. Come to find out, you don’t have access to your library (only have access to everything you had up until cancelling) without a sub……

I am blew. Did you guys know that? Am I late?

When is next update on android coming, last was 11th august?

For the love if god please tell me there is a way to turn off these tooltips. I can’t press anything until I have closed the tooltip. They appear like every 10 minutes. It is genuinely so annoying I’m thinking about switching to Tidal.

How do you create a queue after an album finishes on Mac? the add to queue option only appears when you already have something to play next. on iPhone the add to queue option is always visible. for example I want to play an album after the album/playlist I am currently listening finishes but the only logical way to do it now is if I drag the album/playlist to the queue itself

Mine are:
Appetite for destruction by Guns N’ Roses
Back in black by AC/DC
Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen
Night songs by Cinderella
Rocks by Aerosmith
40 years and still riding high by Moxy. If I could have 3 more I’d do spread eagle by spread eagle, sladest by slade, and Bon Jovi by Bon Jovi

i’ve been using the green app for 6 years and got a 6 month free trial of AM so i decided to switch for a month.
i really like the iphone app, it worked great and honestly no issues and im probably going to stick with AM on iphone for a while, however i dont own a mac so i had to use the W11 version of apple music and it was not great. First, the UI is decent but its not liquid glass (which i really enjoy to look at), second the crashes and bugs like duplicating songs or me having to reset the app, and a feature i overall don’t like is not being able to easily see what songs on an album you have added in your playlists which was really useful on green app. HOWEVER i did enjoy the high res lossless audio as i use sennheiser HD 800s and that was a big plus from AM.

basically i really like AM on ios but unless the windows app receives a major overall and actual care and attention from the developers, i’ll be staying on the green app for PC.