Music app in macOS Tahoe crashes when playing local library on MacBook

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Music app in macOS Tahoe crashes when playing local library on MacBook

Has anybody else had issues with a local library wit the new music app in Tahoe? Mine either becomes unresponsive if I try to play an album, or I get a few seconds of music before it cuts out and crashes. All in all this has to be the worst iteration of music I have ever encountered. Oh and to top it all the library won't reload after a crash I have to reboot my MacBook. So all in all no music since I've updated

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Original Title: Music App in Tahoe

MacBook Air, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 18, 2025 8:20 AM

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Xavier Cherval Author

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Oct 10, 2025 2:41 AM in response to Xavier Cherval

Finally deduced that during the update to OS26 the music library file had become corrupted!! So binned the corrupted file and initiated a new music library file. After uploading from my hard drive 11,500 albums onto a new library file all seems well. However there are a few caveats in the new music app compared to the old one. 1) you cannot play music immediately, the app will crash. 2) You have to wait a while for all of the 'data' to load into the new music app before you can play any music without it crashing especially for a local library of this size (I haven't timed it but I leave it around half an hour from opening to be safe. However previously I could play music straight away, so this is a pain). 3) If syncing this to your iPhone, you need to be patient. when you click on the iPhone in the side bar of finder, it will appear blank for dome time. You need to leave it until all of the information is there, as in the sync button. Syncing new music will take as long as it takes dependent on the size of your local library.

Please be mindful that this only applies to a local library stored on an external drive. I do not use cloud based music, so no idea how that is behaving for other users.

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meathack

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Sep 19, 2025 12:56 AM in response to Xavier Cherval

I can't play anything from Apple Music using Music.app on Tahoe. Local files work fine, but anything from the web fails. A bunch of errors in console that relate to music including:

Response: playbackQueue<99D07FE1-072E-4EAC-BB57-4DBF1F9BE298 NowPlayingTouchUI-23967 /M/L/AF/A600.000000x600.000000/R[0:1]> returned with error <Error Domain=kMRMediaRemoteFrameworkErrorDomain Code=35 "Could not find the specified now playing client" UserInfo={playerPathDescription=〖 􁊸 LOCL (Mac) ❯ 􀘪 com.apple.Music Music ❯ 􀭉 〗, NSLocalizedDescription=Could not find the specified now playing client}> in 0.0070 seconds

play> lease> **ERROR** lease request error Error Domain=com.apple.iTunes.errors.store-request Code=7507 "(null)" UserInfo={HTTPStatus=503}

Two equal instances have unequal identities. <type=Application identifier=application.com.apple.Music.1152921500311888544.1152921500311888549 AUID=501> and <type=Application identifier=application.com.apple.Music.1152921500311888544.1152921500311888549>

[3rrL4rJ99]-MPCErrorControllerImplementation 0x956f2bc40 <<MPCPlaybackEngine: 0x94e801cc0 engineID=3rrL4rJ99 playerID=Music>> - Starting error resolution - item:<ITMPAVItem: 0x94de6e300> (92050::92055) Grapevine Fires - error:Error Domain=MPCError Code=24 "wrapped error" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=wrapped error, NSUnderlyingError=0x94c430390 {Error Domain=com.apple.iTunes.errors.store-request Code=7507 "(null)" UserInfo={HTTPStatus=503}}}

I've tried signing out/signing in of Music without change.

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