Issues with Apple Music after upgrading my Mac to macOS Tahoe

The change to the interface is too extreme and in many cases, not at all an improvement. Maybe I'm just not using it correctly!

Here's a list of the problems/issues I'm having:

No playlist song count appears in playlist interface. (Of course, you can scroll down to see the numbered list count, but I rely on simply looking at the interface to see it.)
Sound Check is either broken or useless. Song volumes are all over the place, with it turned on or off.
The History/Up Next panel now behaves as in the mobile version of the app. You can no longer switch between Up Next and History; you have to scroll up through history and/or down through up next.
"Show in Playlist" is no longer available in the history panel.
The currently playing song controls (besides moving to the bottom of the screen), no longer allow you to remove a playing song from the current playlist; you have to go into the playlist to remove it.
Those song controls being at the bottom is hard to accept after it being at the top forever, especially that now there's a bunch of wasted empty space above the song list.
Pressing the space bar doesn't always start and stop a song.

More to come, I'm afraid.

[Re-Titled by Moderator]

Original Title: Music in Tahoe is messed up

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 19, 2025 1:11 PM

32 replies

Nov 26, 2025 4:24 PM in response to Mike Cuenca

Im so tired of the sound check issues, some songs are being BLASTED whilst some are quiet as a mouse, so when im working out and my computer is playing the music, I have to constantly interrupt my workout in a hurry to lower or raise the volume, hate this.

Dec 9, 2025 5:24 AM in response to Mike Cuenca

Since I haven't seen these items elsewhere:

Playing Next no longer updates with on-the-fly changes to the Smart Playlist it's supposed to be playing from. Did you remove a song with a rule or ratings change? Playing Next begs to differ.
Sound Check is broken.
AutoPlay (which I never use) sometimes shows up at the bottom of Playing Next, even when it is safely dormant.

Sorry if any of these are repeats.

Finally, what in the actual heck is this bit of UI madness? This is what users see in Playing Next, even with Reduce Transparency activated under Accessibility.

Dec 9, 2025 5:25 AM in response to Mike Cuenca

I *love* that the side-to-side scrollbar shows up (not just in Music), even when the content is narrower than the window, unless you switch to hidden scrollbars (which I'd prefer not to, but Tahoe forced my hand).

Dec 10, 2025 5:29 AM in response to Mike Cuenca

Hang on, I found another bug.

Hitting Command-L to take you to the playing song only appears to work. As you probably know, it doesn't work at all from inside the currently playing playlist — but it's broken from elsewhere, too.

Try this. Start a song, exit the playlist, then hit Command-L to take you back to the song. Then hit Command-I to pull up the song's tag.

NOTHING HAPPENS.

The currently playing song is properly highlighted, but not actually selected. You'll still have to click on it again before you can do anything with the highlighted song.

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Dec 10, 2025 5:41 AM in response to Mike Cuenca

Control on the bottom of the window and the transparency of the song list below is the most annoying thing about the upgrade to me.

Also, it broke my home sharing...

I record vinyl records to an old 2010 Mac Pro tower running Catalina. Home sharing worked great under Sequoia. On my 14 inch m3 MacBook Pro I could choose the library from the old Mac Pro and it would show up, then I could choose "Items not in my library" from the Show: pull down menu. I would then select the songs and hit the import button and the songs would copy over to my main Music library on the m3 MBP... Now Music unexpectedly quits every time I attempt to access the shared library. I went through all the usual trouble shooting. Logged out of home sharing on both, logged out of iCloud, restarted... logged back into iCloud, logged back in to home sharing... etc. Still quits every time.

djDTHTRP

Level 1

33 points

Dec 13, 2025 5:29 PM in response to dcmargo54

Sadly, that playback issue playing tracks late with opening .25s or so cut off has NOT been fixed. Whenever you key-stroke, double-click or click the Prev or Next, that bug happens. MAYBE going between tracks naturally, it's not happening now, but since I'm changing songs to fit things per whatever I do, this is aggravating.

Mike Cuenca Author

Level 1

106 points

Dec 15, 2025 7:14 AM in response to Mike Cuenca

Here's what's not yet fixed/restored (from my original list):

Sound Check is either broken or useless. Song volumes are all over the place, with it turned on or off.
The History/Up Next panel now behaves as in the mobile version of the app. You can no longer switch between Up Next and History; you have to scroll up through history and/or down through up next.
"Show in Playlist" is no longer available in the history panel.
The currently playing song controls (besides moving to the bottom of the screen), no longer allow you to remove a playing song from the current playlist; you have to go into the playlist to remove it.
Those song controls being at the bottom is hard to accept after it being at the top forever, especially that now there's a bunch of wasted empty space above the song list.
Pressing the space bar doesn't always start and stop a song.

And one I forgot in the first list, that's still broken:

"Go to Current Song" is way broken. Even when you're on the song, it jumps to nothing. Sometimes, it jumps to the album view and then you can't get back to the Playlist from which the song is currently playing.