In Tahoe, how do I move the play controls in Music?

You're welcome. To be fair, that article just dropped yesterday, and it didn't mention the Music app by name. Just had enough details to make me think, "Hmmm, I wonder if this would clean up some of the mess they've made of the Music app."

Since I posted earlier, I've noticed that it fixed another annoying problem. I have my playlists carefully arranged in nested playlist folders, and whenever I selected a song and used the context menu to show that song in a particular playlist, every last playlist folder and subfolder in the sidebar would expand. Since applying this fix it doesn't do that any more.

Finding this has brought me one step closer to migrating to Tahoe on my daily driver MacBook Air. Up to now I've upgraded my Mac mini to Tahoe but this and a couple other quirks have discouraged me from making the switch on my Air. I'll probably still wait until Adobe blesses Photoshop and Lightroom as Tahoe friendly, but I'm no longer firmly opposed to it.

Can you share exactly what you did. I tried entering in the following command into terminal and follow the steps, but after putting in the Code, closing Apple Music and then launching it again, the UI did not appear at all, but then after reverting the code it went back to the standard. Look with the play back controls at the bottom. Would love to change this. Can you share with work for you? Thanks so much.

I closed the Music app first, issued the defaults command exactly as it appeared in my post above, then restarted the Music app and it immediately appeared with the UI looking much like it did in Sequoia.

After updating to 26.1 this wonderful terminal commant doesn't seem to work anymore ... so unfortunately I've got the godawful UI back again ... Using Pine player now, and it's a shame I don't even want to use my apple music subscription in Tahoe environment. Hope very very very hard someone comes up with another command, or better, that apple wakes up and realises this UI is working very, very bad for lots of music lovers.

I just upgraded from Sequoia to Tahoe 26.1 Upon running the Music app I saw the current playing controls were at the bottom, tried like heck to figure out how to put them back on top of the Music window without success. Decided to search for an answer and ran across this post :-(

I hate hate hate this being at the bottom and that it's also hard to see when it's white against a white-ish background with no apparent border. Why? Why was it changed? Was there a problem? Did they change just for the sake of change with no apparent improvement? Looks that way to me. I regret moving to Tahoe. I use the Music app a lot to play my library of songs and am always in the main Music window. I know people just say you'll get used to it but I don't want to without there being an offsetting benefit and I can't find one. Where is Jobs when you need him????

.. .. and now that I've been using Tahoe a bit, I see they moved controls to the bottom of the screen in many of their apps and moved the Send button in MacOS Mail to the upper right. Ok, these seem like small changes that one should just get used to but I simply fail to see the benefits of their moves. I can get used to the Send button but moving the controls to the bottom of the screen is horrible.

In Mail on my phone, the Search field and other buttons at the bottom of the screen either cover up the dynamic status of fetching mail or they eliminated it so now I open Mail and have to sit there and wait and wait and wait to see if it actually pulls any new mail in because the status is gone and I can't tell what the app is doing.

Changing the user experience in a negative way promotes severe hesitation about making these, supposedly beneficial, updates.

Same same same! In my formatting of my screen full of my commonly used apps, I always had Music on the top center, showing what song I am listening to (and a quick access to get there), as well as the fact that I'm missing a few other Music features I liked better in the old version. LOVED your workaround I found last week-until I decided to update my computer-WHY DID I DO THIS????? I was hoping for some better improvements for the aspects I don't like, and it seems like some were fixed, but some were made worse, like this. Ugh. If anyone figures out a workaround, or how to at least move the music bar up to the top, it would be appreciated!

Until then, looks like I'll be dreading utilizing Music....

You get used to hating it, this is a terrible design change by Apple and something that breaks trust with the company. I don't know why Apple makes such changes, they have done it with Photos etc. Sometimes it's ok to just let good design be. They keep monkeying around thinking it's an improvement but the user (i.e. us) you are just left feeling like you are part of an experiment and temporary solution which is not who or where I want to be.

I have subsequently found that the Mail dynamic activity/status is now at the top left of the screen just below whatever inbox you happen to be in, my last post said Apple eliminated it so I wanted to update my post. I still don't like what they did and want the dynamic status back at the very bottom where it used to be. Why are they messing with things that had no issue??? There is no added functionality, no larger print or icons so why move it???

Apple, pls put things back to where they were in Mail and Music

Confirmed the command turns off liquid glass but can't change the location of the controls. this is a terrible design decision for macOS users - just inexplicably bad. I'm sure someone at Apple is testing this and I like to think someone is challenging these UI decisions.

I'm certain Steve Jobs would take one look at this and give you the hairdryer treatment over such rookie mistakes with the UI. Why is there some much empty space and why are playback controls on top of the music list? I will take any logical explanation as to why this is an improvement.

EDIT: Posted to wrong thread, sorry.

I left the following feedback: "Please restore proper playback controls, and put them back on the top of the screen. Hiding the volume control and other basic, necessary functions behind a click? Madness! Occluding those controls with content? Also, please remove History from More madness! The new UI requires more attention, more clicks, and longer mouse swipes to do anything. Terrible."

I should have added that the using the Filter control is no longer reflected in the song count or play time.

Who approved the design change that moves the play controls to the bottom of the page? It’s obvious whoever made this decision doesn’t use the app regularly. As a long-time user of iTunes/Apple Music for over 20 years, this is honestly one of the worst UI changes I’ve seen.

Not only does it clash visually with the content behind it, but it also makes the playback scrubber almost impossible to see — and it was already too small to begin with. This change makes the app harder to use, not better.

Leaving this comment in the hope someone at Apple actually takes notice.

Don't forget to mention that the time is now hidden as well... The only way I've discovered to see it is to move the mouse to hover over the scrubber/progress bar.

The angst around this has nothing to do with "hating change". The changes have made it more difficult, less functional to use the music app on macOS.

Also, this is not an issue about the control bar being at the bottom vs top either. Although, that is annoying and seems like a change without benefit; it is the visibility of useful information and navigation of the controls that is the real irritant.