Apple Music on MacBook Pro 14 Pro M3 skips songs

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Apple Music on MacBook Pro 14 Pro M3 skips songs

When I want to play the album from Apple Music's own library (not downloaded by my on my MacBook by myself, and not the one that was downloaded from Apple Music on my MacBook), instead of starting playing the chosen album from the first song the Apple Music application starts skipping several songs and then only starts playing some song from this album randomly from the middle or end of this album.

Also, when I want to play one particular song from any album in Apple Music library the same happens: I press "Play" button in front of the needed song, but instead of playing this particular song Music app agains starts skipping this song and then several others below and finally starts playing some other random song from this album. After updating to Tahoe MacOS a lot of problems emerged with their Music app on MacBook.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 30, 2025 5:15 AM

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Sep 30, 2025 5:27 AM in response to Kwetlorien

Same issue with Apple Music on MacOS. Specifically, this started after the update to Tahoe 26.0.1—it was fine on 26. App is not usable in its current state. Tested on an M4 Pro Mac Mini.

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Kwetlorien Author

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Sep 30, 2025 5:58 AM in response to saundersbd

Agree. It has become terrible. They moved the playback bar from the very top to the very bottom, and now often this bar gets mixed with album covers, and it is not so comfortable to operate it as it was when it was on the top. What is also illogical is that now the very top part of the Music App is absolutely empty and useless. Before when this playback bar was on the very top, it was logical. But now what is the point of having this playback in the bottom?

Moreover, many problems emerged (like the one I mentioned above).

There is also one strange issue now - when you try to edit tags in tracks one after another you should first go to "Show album in library" mode and only therein you will be able to move from every previous track to every next one. If you are simply in the "Artists" section try to do it with tracks in one specific album every time you click "next" button to move let's say from track 1 to track 2 or track 4 to track 5 (or vice versa) of the same album it jumps to absolutely different artist, absolutely different album and track. Apple, what are you doing? I wish I did not update to this absolutely not well thought of new MacOS...

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