Music app crashes when i try to move a song

Another update: For me adding both artist name and album name seems to work relatively consistently. A playlist that kept crashing no matter what I did had artist info but not album name info. when I added a name in the album section, BOOM! it suddenly stopped crashing. Presence of cover art doesn't seem to interfere. I hope this lasts...

I have the same issue. I once fixed the issue by deleting the whole library file (after duplicating it into a hard drive) then made a new .library file and pasted all the songs in there, re-opened the music app and imported the whole thing. (You can ask the free chat gpt and get approx the same solition i think). This didn't work for me in the end as I write later but here's some things to keep in mind should you attempt it.

*Make sure you export all the playlists you want to keep from the menu bar (File>Library>Export Playlist) Then, when you reopen the music app you can import them again with File>Library>Import Playlist(after you import all the song files back).

I did this maybe some weeks ago.

However, today, it started happening again. It may be that my files are corrupted in some way (seems to happen when I convert a wav. file into the AAC ver.... but for me it's essential since wav files are too heavy.

The only work around I found for rearranging song orders is to create a separate new playlist, then copy&paste the songs up until the part you want to insert the new song from the END of the playlist, then copy&paste the new song then again copy& paste the rest of the songs (up till the START of the list), hope it makes sense.

I've read many threads on this but it seems we just have to be patient and wait for an update.

Another way is to download the playlist to your iphone etc, rearrange it there, then import to the mac again (it creates a separate new playlist on the music app I'm pretty sure)

This worked for me as well - thank you!

I have an update. Today I found that apparently, there are times it works and time it doesn't. Most of the time it doesn't work which is why people assume it will always not work. But since that may not be the case, there may be a new work around or a cause that we can fix on our end. I have tested a few things and while these don't work for me consistently, for some of you it may work so here it is.

・Try dragging the song down first. (If you want to move it upwards, drag it down then up)

・Add artist info if it doesn't have one already (if it does and still crashes, try updating the info in some way)

→Chat GPT told me having inconsistency in the music info may mess with the metadata, takes more power to rewrite the playlist info (dunno how it works, it is what it is)

・Free up Disk Space. On my mac I have 500G, Approx 15G used to run things. I only have like 20G free space left due to lots of music files and apps (I do music arrangements so its plugins and apps are quite heavy) If your disk space is similar to mine, try deleting or moving as much as possible to an external hard drive to reach at least 20% freeG (so at least around 70G free if your disk max is 500G)

↑For the last solution I have not yet gotten to test it, but the reason I think it may be worth trying is that the Activity Monitor app shows a heavy spike when I drag the music around and crash the app on purpose, meaning it might simply be exceeding the ram limit. My mac is 16GB RAM for reference.

Monica, thank you for that fix. It worked! No more crashes after I added Album, Album Artist to the song file.

Thank you so much Monica it did help!! My problem is resolved you need to add all the infos related to the song and then you'll be able to drag any songs in your playlist