Determining Gapless Playback Information over and over for the same files
Have not seen any recent activity on this problem so I thought I would relate my lastest experience.
A few months ago I related this Problem:
I have a large music collection of over 120,000 files. Everything worked fine except for the system “Determining Gapless Playback” on several thousand files every time I started the Music App or added new tracks. I had to click on the activity on the bottom left to open the activity window and stop the process and then everything worked fine. I do not use gapless playback and there is no longer an option to disable it. This was annoying but once I stopped the process everything worked until the next time I opened the Music App.
A few months ago after adding new tracks to my library I noticed right away that this was no longer happening? I closed and opened the music app several times and this problem seemed to have miraculously fixed itself? I can only assume that it was fixed in the last update and since I usually leave the music app open all the time I had not noticed it was fixed. I am not unhappy but wonder if it was actually fixed or if it was something I did not realizing that I fixed the problem. I did submit a couple of Feedbacks about 2 months ago to Apple reference this problem but did not really expect anything to be done about the problem. I searched for information hoping to find out about it being fixed with the last update that was made to music and found nothing.
All has been well for about a year now until I recently replaced my 2017 MacBook Pro with a new M1 MacBook Air and decided to move my music library to my new laptop now that I have plenty of room. I also decided to prune some the the music that I don't listen to.. After a few thousand files were imported the problem reappeared. These were all files that were working just fine and not causing any problems on the old laptop that is running the same version of macOS Ventura 13.4 as my new laptop and the same files now being rechecked for gapless playback every time I open the Music. App. There is clearly still a problem.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.4