No more status bar in playlists in Apple Music on my Mac running macOS 26

Garthriot,

View > Show Status Bar should restore it. But you have to do this for each individual playlist.

I just upgraded to Tahoe, and yes it seems they have changed the whole Status Bar behavior. As far as I can tell:

• There is no status bar for a playlist in Songs view. The commands Show Status Bar and Hide Status Bar are still present, but have no effect that I can see.
• In Playlist view, there is a status bar but it is only visible if you scroll to the bottom of the playlist.

Inconvenient behavior, I would say, but that is evidently the new design.

The above suggestion doesn't provide the size info that many wish to restore and you have to move to the bottom of sometimes a very long playlist if you want to see partial info. A work around that allows the old style of displayed info is to select any playlist, go to view and select genre and all the old format info is shown top left of the window. Should be pretty easy for Apple to put this back in the actual playlist view.

Show/hide status bar doesn't appear to do *anything* for playlists. I display playlists as songs and there's never a bar there whether it's toggled on or off. This is a glaring omission for anyone who is used to selecting chunks of songs to see duration while editing a playlist. Surely this is unintentional... anyone creating a playlist with a length requirement needs to see the duration of selected tracks.

I've been seeking a solution to this as well, and I've found a workaround: Within a playlist, choose "View > as Playlist". With this setting engaged the status bar for that playlist is displayed at the top of the screen (although only after scrolling down somewhat through the playlist), and also allows for the status bar to reflect the length of highlighted songs, a feature I like to utilize.

"View>Show Status Bar" does nothing in the new MacOS 26 Music application on my computer when I try it in individual playlists. And unlike garthriot, who can see the status bar when looking at the full music library, on my computer the status bar is gone from the Library>Songs window, too, so I can't see how many songs I have in my library. When I select multiple songs, I can no longer see what the total length of that selection is.

That doesn't work for me. I have my playlists set to "View Songs", if that matters. When I show and hide the status bar, nothing happens.

If I choose Songs under Library, then I can see the counts and time in the upper-left, but nothing appears there when selecting a playlist.

Yes, I have all my playlists in "song view," too. But in Library>Songs, I don't even see the counts and time in the upper-left. I'm wondering whether there something else I need to unhide or add, but I can't figure it out.

This is a complete disaster for me. I use Apple Music to program my weekly radio show, and now have no idea how long the playlists are. Previously, I could select multiple songs within a playlist and easily get a collective length of those selected songs. Not anymore. Apple, I hope you're reading all these and fix this problem immediately. This is urgent.

Unfortunately, this only shows a rounded number of the overall length, not the exact length. Secondly, there is no ability to select a specific series of tracks to come up with a total for just those. It's better than not having a clue at all, but certainly still not usable, or anything like it was before this horrific mess-up by Apple. It seems like somebody's cute idea of minimalism over functionality.

Found another bug in Apple Music on desktop for Mac. Many of the songs might have been deleted from the Library (either during the update or for some other reason). The problem is that it appears as normal in the playlist and is listed as part of the playlist, but when playing the playlist, the song gets skipped since it does not exist. I had to download the song again, put it back in the library, and then it would play from the playlist.

Now I click every song in the playlist to make sure every song plays. If it does not play when you click it, it will be skipped.

This is not a workaround for the entire library, which I need in order to make sure entire library's have been transferred properly without any missing data. You can see this in playlists, yeah, but not in the entire library (when viewing entire library as songs, albums, or artists, or whatever)

That works for me too. Not really practical, though. Too much switching views around.

I assume that this is just a bug, and that it will be working in the next point release.

This isn't working for me. I see the status bar everywhere except in playlists.