Crashes in Music App on MacOS

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Crashes in Music App on MacOS

Greets:

I am having issues with the Music app on MacOS crashing.

I have a playlist folder with three nested playlist folders, and each of them with playlists. I am on another unrelated playlist outside of the folders with tracks that I'd like to drag from its list into one of the playlists inside the nested folders.

I am able to drag a song, maybe two. But then when I attempt to select or drag a song to the nested playlist, the Music app crashes. This has hapened several more times.

This is unusual and a bit frustrating. I am not sure how to deal with it, but would love to get some assistance on sorting that out.

I'm on MacOS 15.2. I have a pretty spec out M1 Max MacBook Pro. I did attempt to restart and try again, but same issue has happened.

Thanks,

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.2

Posted on Dec 30, 2024 07:25 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 3, 2025 07:23 PM in response to BaruchZed13

Not sure how helpful it'll be, but it was suggested to me from someone else fairly knowledgeable about such things that I do the following, which I did last night.

Export the library as an XML file from the File menu.
Close Music.
Hold down the Option key and open the Music app. A window will appear, and you should choose the option to create a new library.
Go to the File menu to import the XML file you saved; the option will say something like import playlists.

This is a process that could take awhile to do, so best to leave it running for awhile.

This is what I've done. I have not tested it out yet to see if it resolved my issues yet, but I do know that sometimes having a fresh XML file generated may alleviate some issues.

Hope this might help you out.

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Answer 2

JHP99

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Jan 10, 2025 04:28 AM in response to Velanche Stewart

Same thing is happening to me.

Thanks Velanche for this suggestion but sadly didn't work for me. Music still crashes when I try to move a song within a Playlist. Not every time but mostly just crashes out.

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Answer 3

Jan 3, 2025 07:07 PM in response to Velanche Stewart

I am having a different problem, same app, on 15.2 The Music app suddenly will not import or let me add files. There is room on the drive, the files are fine, I can drag the file in and the green + shows up but the file doesn't "take." Same if I use the Command-O nothing happens. I have rebooted, rebooted in Safe Mode, tried with different files, nada. Anyone else or any wisdom on this one? Thanks in advance.

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Crashes in Music App on MacOS

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