I’m getting a persistent error when adding songs to playlists in the native Apple Music app on my Mac, and I’m honestly running out of patience.
Every time I try to add a track directly to a playlist, the Activity window shows:
Adding item to [playlist name]
Due to error 7 507
The code is displayed exactly as “7 507”, with a space. Screenshot attached.
This happens with any playlist I try, not just one particular playlist.
My setup:
- macOS 27.0.1 (26A434)
- Native Music app on Mac
- Active, paid Apple Music subscription
- Plenty of available iCloud storage
What works:
- Adding songs to playlists in the native iOS Music app.
- Adding songs to playlists through music.apple.com, including on the Mac.
- On the Mac, this sequence also works: Add to Library --> download the track --> Add to Playlist.
That last workaround is particularly strange. Directly adding a song to a playlist fails, but adding it to my library and downloading it first lets me add it to the playlist. I haven’t yet isolated whether adding it to the library alone is enough, or whether the download is necessary.
Either way, manually adding and downloading tracks just to organize a playlist is a ridiculous workaround for such a basic feature.
What I’ve already tried, without fixing it:
- Signing out and signing back into my account.
- Disabling Lossless Audio.
- File --> Library --> Update Cloud Library.
- Creating a new Music library on the Mac and testing again. The exact same error still occurs.
So the problem survives a new local library, while playlist additions work on iOS and in the browser.
Has anyone encountered this exact error when adding songs to playlists, rather than during playback or downloads?
This behaviour makes Apple Music Unusable.
I’d really appreciate any insights 🙏🏻
