Music app UI issues after macOS Tahoe update

Looks fine for me, as well. The UI has been updated, for example the playing controls and track progress bar that used to be at the top of the Music main window are now at the bottom. Shown here (Tahoe on top):

That's true in full screen as well. You can provide feedback to Apple, but this was clearly a design decision they made.

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Anuj_2 wrote:

Does anyone else see the music app's UI go crazy weird after updating to macOS Tahoe?

mainly with the header in the full screen where the top bar is just empty

when the queue is opened the header of that portion is stuck at a position even after scrolling through it

the music history is lost.

I don't know it's just weird and troublesome, not liking it at all, apple please do something

or just hire me, I might have a few great ideas for the music app. I can share my resume if needed XD

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Original Title: Music app header issue

This is a user to user community.

Not seeing the issue here—

Quit the Music .app and relaunch it holding down the Shift key and compare your results.

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I believe we are facing the same issues, just because this was the first major version of macOS to be released.

1. UI is somewhat laggy as ****, even when scrolling through a single playlist with fewer than 300 songs.
2. When double-clicking a song in a playlist, once the song finishes it does not automatically continue to the next track in that playlist as it did back in macOS Sequoia. Instead, playback just stops completely (and if shuffle + repeat is enabled, it will simply repeat the same track). Strangely, sometimes after quitting and reopening the app, the issue disappears — overall it feels very unstable.
3. The input method occasionally lags; after typing, it freezes for a few seconds and then suddenly spits out all the characters at once (most noticeable in the Music app’s search bar).
4. From time to time, opening a playlist shows a completely blank list. Closing and reopening it makes the tracks reappear.
5. I personally haven’t run into any issues with Liquid Glass so far — it’s still transparent enough to read text. That said, the overall experience is definitely not as good as it was on Sequoia.

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Absolutely hate this update. I have a 2022 M1 and HEAVILY rely on Apple Music for work. There’s no way I need a new MacBook after 3 years with over 130GB of storage remaining??!

1. Play/Control bar at the bottom makes zero sense. Please move it back to the top.
2. SO much wasted space on the top part of the screen when looking at a playlist (regardless of view option). We do not need to see the album artwork that large. Please make more space for the song list.
3. Playlist menu keeps expanding and opens EVERY single playlist/folder. I have over 10 years of playlists that I am having to manually close every so often. Then they open back up on their own. They will also all close at any given time. It is extremely frustrating. Please also ditch the playlist artwork preview- it makes the playlist menu look cluttered and not clean.
4. LAGGING!! Like crazy. Anytime I move a song into a playlist, delete a song, edit a song, anything… I get the “spinning wheel of death”.
5. External apps like Turnover no longer connect with the Apple Music App. Unsure if that’s an Apple issue or Turnover issue but I’ll add it to my list of grievances.
6. PLEASE add playlist times/status bar to every view. It works in Playlist View but haven’t been able to see it in Song View, which doesn’t make sense.

Very frustrated, very disappointed. None of the updates to this version of Apple Music are helpful or useful. Sorry for complaining, but wow, it’s not good.

It's a buggy (and ugly) disaster. Music from my library stops after 14 seconds. Sometimes it doesn't play at all. The interface is a disaster. It makes zero sense to place the bar over the song names and artists. It literally makes me feel ill looking at it.

It's terrible. Not even an option to place it at the top, where it's been forever. I'm using Swinsian.

“I would really like to see the play controls back at the top, and not in that glass design anymore. It’s now very hard to read, even though I have a beautiful Studio Display.”

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I have over 11k albums stored on an external hard drive and they were working perfectly until this abomination came along!

Now no music plays, can’t sync my 1Tb iPhone to my music to update and the app has started to move music around on my hard drive!

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There are so many reason I don't like Tahoe's UI. It seems as if they tried to make everything consistent between iPhones and laptops etc with the priority given to iPhone UI. But they have made a mess. Take a look at the attached screen shot from maps. The cut off of end route, the over lapping of the up arrow, the large blank section. I have so many issues with this now. Another item driving me crazy is why they move the music controls to the bottom of the music app when every other UI has controls on the top. Now the UI between Podcast and music are different. The Podcast ap at least lets you select a play in a tool bar on top and associate with the selected podcast. Music just an inconsistent mess of button locations and different functions. Apple sometimes change is not better and you need to test your products more. Why is this released so poorly?

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the new music app in OS Tahoe UI is a DISASTER –

besides placing the control bar at the bottom of the page which makes NO SENSE at all - i'm experiencing incredibly long lags when cataloguing new album entries into my library - it's taking at least 3X longer to input an album, edit song titles etc – PLEASE FIX ASAP - thnx

I tried you Shift key but for my problem it didn't work on my M1. I have 3900 songs and I want to move 10 of them up from there present position which is 3890 to 3900 into different places in the top 1000. I use to be able to highlight them, holding the cursor and drag them up to where I want them, but not any more and they are not on a external SSD but on the Mac

Eliminating the playlist duration is a mistake (I hope it was just a mistake) that must be fixed in the next release. This is a needed feature for some Music app users, and considering the massive amount of unused/wasted space in the app's window, there is plenty of room to return this functionality.

I agree the new UI is awkward and less useful. However, the playlist duration hasn't been eliminated - just moved to the very bottom of the song list. Just scroll ...all...the...way...down... and it's helpfully hidden there.

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Agree with the new app being a disaster. Curious if anyone else has experienced the following 2 issues:

1. In the search view, when looking at Albums, if you click the "Albums >" text to open a full page grid of the albums that match your query, the albums are no longer selectable. As in, you see a full grid of albums, but you can't click into any of the albums. Single clicking, double clicking, triple clicking, right clicking... nothing has any effect, just a static grid of album art. What is the possible use for such a view? (The albums are still selectable in the main search page - where it shows each section for Artists / Albums / Songs - just not when you click into the Albums> view).
2. When _controlling_ a HomePod (select AirPlay icon > Switch to: > Select HomePod - Specifically _not_ when "AirPlay"-ing), I cannot select a song from an Album to play. No matter which song I select in an Album, the HomePod always starts playing the first song in the album. If I select the 3rd track, the first plays. If I select the last track, the first plays. The rest of the tracks in the album do show up in the queue, but they always show up in order. i.e. If I had shuffle on, shuffle turns itself off. The only way to play a specific song is to click one at random, let the first track start playing, then skip ahead to the track I want.

Both of these issues happen every time, without fail, and throughout restarts across 2 different devices. Absolutely baffling that this app passed QA. Also seems like I should share my resume with this team XD.

ElectricAirplane wrote:

Space bar no longer works as it did in previous versions of Apple Music. It doesn't stop or start music anymore in full screen. It does in Mini-player but I need it full screen.

I found that to be a glitch. I selected View menu > Show Playing Next then the space bar worked normally, even after toggling off Playing Next.