After upgrading to Ventura 13.0, all Playlists in the sidebar are now showing twice? These are all Apple playlists, not custom ones. Also, not sure why the MacOS is showing as 10.13....but I am on Ventura 13.0.
With Music closed use Finder to go to your ~/Music/Music folder where ~ is your user's home folder. Enter Time Machine. Use the picker at the right to locate a suitable date and time, i.e. just before you upgraded to Ventura, select the package Music Library.musiclibrary, and restore it. Exit Time Machine, then option-start-Music and explicitly select the restored database.
See Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support.
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Hello jcutolo,
You've come to a great place for help! With the playlists showing doubled, quit and reopen the Music app. While simple, it is a step that can help resolve many app specific issues. You can find the steps for quitting an app listed below. You can also find these steps outlined in the following article.
2.A Force Quit window opens. Select the app that you want to quit, then click Force Quit."
How to force an app to quit on your Mac
As for macOS showing incorrectly. Let's restart the Mac by clicking the Apple logo towards the top-left, followed by Restart in the menu. This can be a lucrative step to resolving this issue as well.
Have a great day!
Do the duplicate lists end with a trailing 1 or 2, or do both copies have exactly the same names? Do you have a subscription to either Apple Music or iTunes Match? If so do these duplicates show in every library and device signed into your Apple ID?
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They do not...and they only show on my MacBook Pro....my iPhone only shows them once....the other peculiar thing, when you look at Artists, none of the artwork shows up anymore. It just shows a microphone.
What were you using before Ventura? More particularly are you looking at an upgrade from iTunes to Musc, or one version of Music to another? You can potentially restore the Music Library.musiclibrary database from before the upgrade to see if that eliminates the duplicate lists.
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Monterey then. You didn't mention iTunes, I did. Just trying to make sure I'm not missing some relevant detail. I would start by trying to restore Music Library.musiclibrary from your Time Machine backup and see what if any difference that makes.
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This has all been done and it did nothing to remove the multiple playlists!
What did you upgrade from? Is your library backed up in Time Machine?
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Went to the new OS...Ventura 13.0.....yes, it is
Whatever the last OS was....and I am on Apple Music...not sure why I said iTunes or where that came from?
So what would I have to do to replace?
I tried...but it after I restored, it just open with all the duplicated Playlists. But now they are blank, but if I try to delete, it deletes the complete playlist and I have to download again.
In which case perhaps it would be best to restore the library again from earlier today before things got worse. 😕
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It seems to be an ongoing issue since early October....I usually keep 4 backups (weekly) and they are all this way....
How annoying. 😕
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Why are Playlists from Apple showing up twice on Apple Music?
