Music app UI issues after macOS Tahoe update

Shuffle doesn't work on Smart Playlist. I have a "never played" smart list that I like to put on shuffle. It keeps starting alphabetically by artist and won't change. Intel MBP I7 . 750 GB music on external HD. When I quit music it generates an error "music quit unexpectedly"

It is very strange that it crashes so often and that I can not add songs to a playlist without restarting the app... and suddenly a different version of the added song appear.. and albums are split up and to fix it is not as easy as one would expect in 2025... and plays songs from albums that I have not added...

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I have a Madonna playlist and it is edited in the playlist by album. And of course because I decide what songs I want to listen to it is quite strange when Apple Music plays the songs I have not included (see photo). And It also insists on playing the first song first and not the one I have chosen. So will this be fixed? Because this is just not what I am paying for. All this happened after the update and I am on a fairly new iMac.

I have been using Audirvāna Studio music integrated mode for several years. This mode lets you use the Music app with Audirvanna. After the OS 26 Tahoe update, Audirvāna says you can no longer control the Music app with third party apps. They say it is an Apple issue. I hope the next OS 26 update will allow third party apps to control the Music app.

Since upgrading to Tahoe, my iTunes has gone crazy. Info bar at the bottom, cannot be moved and its very frustrating. Also, on a lot of the music, I changed starting times. It worked perfectly for years and now, all of a sudden after Tahoe installation, all songs start on 0:00 even thought. the original setting is still in place. I also tried cancelling the start time to reset to eg 0:09. Has anyone been able to fix the issue?

I'm having issues with the Queue. I'll load a number of full albums and then at some point I'll realize that a different album is playing. Upon opening up the queue I'll see that my queued up albums were replaced with random albums that I had already played. Sometimes odd tracks are inserted in an album list of tracks. This happens every three or so days. I find that if I clear everything, history, queue, etc. then it seems to work OK. But it'll happen again in time. I only ever play full albums.

Ok first of all - AlWeir that Liquid Glass delete workaround was brilliant and great for about a week. Latest update (26.1) seems to have removed that...

26.1 did however seem to have fixed the constant playlist folder opening issue. And when I had Liquid Glass disabled I was able to more efficiently fix a lot of my playlist View Options settings. And they are still fixed so that's good.

Even though I don't want to, I can deal with the Liquid Glass/new UI, mainly the asinine placement of the now playing bubble. But my main problem is just playing songs in my library. When playing any song in a playlist, it plays right away like it always did. But when selecting and playing any song from the Songs tab under Library, it just takes forever. Like minutes. It is unbearable and needs to be fixed.

If anyone has any clues on fixing that, or a new Liquid Glass workaround, let us know!!

I know I'm probably the only one that cares about this, but: I like to add all the original artwork to my albums. The covers, center spreads, labels, everything. I know it makes the music files bigger; I don't care. I like having all the art so I can see it when I want. In older versions, I could scroll through the Artwork tab and see dozens of images. With the last couple of updates that ability is now gone, and I can only see about three and a half at most. What was the reason for eliminating this?

So the OS have been updated but the issue persists. Must admit I am disappointed. But the whole OS is such a giant step back in time. Too many bad decisions have been made. It is a very lacklustre experience. I really thought it was a basic thing that a music app plays the song I choose to play and not the one on the top of the list. This is not good enough.

i dont know what is going on =))) it's so terrible

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+1 Can reproduce by looking at the "Up Next queue":

Have seen elsewhere as well. Maybe a new feature of the Liquid (Gl)aass™?

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I just keep getting this

it stops playing, in between tracks, but still shows the pause button.

Did anyone test it or was it just rolled out, in a really buggy state?

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Yep, I get this all the time. It's basically impossible to play an album at the moment. Quite astonishing.

Frustratingly, when I click a song to play the next track coming somewhere else. Totally hating the Music app now!

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.