Apple Music crashing after iMac Sequoia OS 15 update

I can confirm that the bug is still present in 15.3 and remains quite reproducible; Music will crash when I attempt to drag a song with "Unknown Album" property into another playlist. Such media will be probably be present in the Music tree under "Unknown Artist".

An effective workaround is to select all songs in the playlist and assign an Album name (likely related to the playlist name :)). Songs may then be dragged to another playlist and the media file will be moved to a newly created directory in the tree.

I found no anomalies in exported playlists, file names and media file metadata (Unix stat(1) command).

Apple seems to be enamoured with AI these days (I turned it off). Perhaps their AI may help them to do elementary QA in regression testing and debugging. Then again, perhaps it may not ...

Music: 15.2.56

OS: 15.3

Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:06 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

I just downloaded 15.3 and yes, music is still broken. Mine won't even open. It's been this way since 15.2. I'm frustrated knowing they sent out another update and didn't fix such a big problem. I've been using the quicktime player, but it's so clumsy doing it this way. I need it for my work and so this has been difficult.

For the users who have experienced this it was due to the song not having an Album associated with it. Is that the case for you? If it is, then it would appear to be a bug, but until it is resolved, you can add anything in the album field to prevent the crash. I haven't had a crash in Music on Sequoia, but all of my songs to have an album listed for each song.

I'm having the same issue as the guys who mentioned the music app on Mac keeps crashing when moving songs to another playlist. Mine crashes even when I try to rearrange the song prder in a playlist. It literally crashes every time since I've upgraded the OS X to the latest one. My crash report is below, can someone please advise what this report shows and what I should do to rectify this issue, the report below is like another language to me, don't underdstand any of it, maybe someone on here can make sense of it and reply back to me? Thanks guys!

I’ve upgraded to Sequoia 15.1.1 from 15.1 and the problem I’ve previously outlined remains the same even after connecting the external drive from my hub to directly into the port on the back of my iMac.

This particular community is focused on Music app crashing specifically when dragging and dropping music into another playlist after upgrading to Sequoia 15. I won’t even attempt the drag and drop just to see if my Music app would crash. I’m not a glutton for punishment. I do believe when Apple answers the problems between Music and Sequoia it will function at 100%.

I have an additional issue after upgrading to 15.1 then 15.1.1 and I was wondering if the people in this community had it as well. Spotlight Search and File Search are now nonfunctional. I’ve tested this a few times with different file names or folder names and get the same results.

Ok, good to know I am not alone. Same problem also here. 15.2 on MacMini M4. Music crashing when drag and drop.

I would just like to thank you for this comment, it saved me *lots* of frustration!!! I appreciate you!

prettybird wrote:

I just used EtreCheck and got this report - as a major problem. Can anyone tell me what this means?

   Kernel panics - This system has experienced kernel panics. This could be a sign of hardware failure.

Kernel Panics are either caused by a third party Kernel Extension that needs removed or could also be a sign of Hardware failure. The rest of the report will provide more details on what Kernel Extensions are installed and what the Kernel Panic is.

I use Affinity Photo, Design and Publisher, but these programs are not running at the time I attempt to use the Music app and I also have 64GB of Ram. Upgrading to 15.1.1 has not fixed my issue with my Music app. Hopefully, Apple will come up with a fix for me before Christmas or I'll have to use alternative methods to play my Christmas playlists. : (

Hey guys,

Music crashed by my MacBook Air 2020 (M1) also. Today i updated to 15.1.1 and the songs i couldn't drag'n'drop to another playlist's now workin!! You should update to 15.1.1

Cheers,

Steffen

I almost exclusively use recordings that I have made. And I experienced the same thing you do. Some songs, crash music, and some songs don’t. Some songs can’t be found. There was one upgrade when this problem disappeared, and I could move all the songs and the songs I hadn’t been able to find were suddenly there again. I have no idea if it’s an indexing problem – that’s way above my pay grade!