Music app issues in Tahoe

What happened to the Music app? I can no longer get the status bar to show, pressing the "play" button will jump to a different song than selected. This is on both a MacMini with the M2 and MacAir M3 both running Tahoe 26.0 (25A354). And of course there is the issue of all this "dead" space at the top, a control "panel" that is small.