What happened to the Music app? I can no longer get the status bar to show, pressing the "play" button will jump to a different song than selected. This is on both a MacMini with the M2 and MacAir M3 both running Tahoe 26.0 (25A354). And of course there is the issue of all this "dead" space at the top, a control "panel" that is small.
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Original Title: Music app issues in Tahoe
Mac mini, macOS 26.0
This might cure one or twoi bugs in Music
Music Terminal Command
Here's a workaround. Per tidbits.com (link below), you can disable Liquid Glass on a per-app basis. Stop the Music app, open the Terminal app and enter the command
defaults write com.apple.Music com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES
then restart the Music app. This will revert the two most noxious changes to the app in my eyes: returns the controls to their rightful place at the top of the window, and restores the status bar at the bottom of the playlist in "View as Songs" mode.
You can revert to the godawful Liquid Glass nonsense by repeating the process and replacing YES with NO, if such a perverse urge should occur to you. More details about the process (and options to implement this system-wide) available at this link (many thanks to TidBits for publishing this):
https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/
This might cure one or twoi bugs in Music
Music Terminal Command
Here's a workaround. Per tidbits.com (link below), you can disable Liquid Glass on a per-app basis. Stop the Music app, open the Terminal app and enter the command
defaults write com.apple.Music com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES
then restart the Music app. This will revert the two most noxious changes to the app in my eyes: returns the controls to their rightful place at the top of the window, and restores the status bar at the bottom of the playlist in "View as Songs" mode.
You can revert to the godawful Liquid Glass nonsense by repeating the process and replacing YES with NO, if such a perverse urge should occur to you. More details about the process (and options to implement this system-wide) available at this link (many thanks to TidBits for publishing this):
https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface/
Hello, how are you, you can find the Status Bar in the "View" drop down list on the Menu Bar.
Open Apple Music
Open View, the 5th column
On the Drop Down List "click" SHOW STATUS BAR and PRESTO the Status Bar will now appear ON TOP of the header panel
Click again to Hide the Status Bar
The Keyboard Shortcut: Command "⌘" key and the forward slash key /
Repeat the combination to hide the Status Bar
NOTE:
In macOS 26 Tahoe the Status Bar is permanently moved to the top of the Apple Music App and can only be shown or hidden and the "player controls" has been moved to the bottom of the window.
You cannot change the playback bar's location in the Music App
I hope this has helped so you can now enjoy your music the way YOU like.
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I stand corrected. The status bar is there if you have elected to view the playlist as a playlist. It is no longer there if you view as songs.
Also, there are some of the other problems. If you manually fast forward through a song by dragging the bar, if it is toward the end of the list of songs, the next song is off the screen. If I am manually fast forwarding through songs, it will not always play the next song. I can't replicate this on a consistent basis. And if I have a song selected and press the play button, the song selected does not play, nor does the first song in the playlist but rather a random song. None of the issues existed prior to Tahoe O/S. When viewing the playlist as a playlist
I never use it but the "invite people to join" crashes the music app. When fastwarding through song, the play icon is not always on the correct song.
There has always been a lot of wasted space at the top. Why so much space between the artwork and the list of music? It just looks bad. Now there is a lot of space at the top also.
And when it work to share a really large playlist? I have several with over 1,000 songs and sharing always fails.
The MiniPlayer use to offer the option of view play next or history, history is gone.
If you are going to put the rounded corners on everything, make them consistent. They are different on the miniplayer, even if you enlarge it.
If you adding features, add a way to "pin" or " a radio station without playing and add where does it go once it has been included as a favorite, library, or playlist.
The status bar is integrated into the top of the of the windows. Notice on the top of the window it's clearly visible as "Songs" along with the number of songs as 861, days 2.2 and disk space of 5.46GB. When you click "hide status bar this disappears.
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I thought the status bar disappeared after I upgraded to OS Tahoe, but it's actually at the very bottom of the Music window. The bar is also semi-transparent, so it's not very obvious. I would be an improvement if Apple let us configure it to put it at the top or the bottom and assign the status bar its own space that that it's not transparent over album art.
The Liquid Glass feature in Tahoe (& iOS26) is not an improvement in my opinion; it makes a lot of things harder to read (or find). Users should be given the option to turn it off.
I have toggled it on and off multiple times and the status bar still doesn't show. I have tried full screen and just as a window. I have the same issue on both the MacMini M2 and the MacBook Air M3. Both running the same version of Tahoe. Between this, the way the play button starts a random song, I am tempted to try a clean new install on the MacBook Air. Other than time I am pretty happy with Tahoe even if I will never use 95% of the new "features".
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it does not work - please fix the status bar right away
How to fix Music app bugs on macOS Tahoe 26.0?
