Dragging a track up or down in a playlist no longer scrolls the playlist

macOS26 Tahoe and Music app v1.6. I only use my library of local music files with the Music app, not Apple Music streaming.


When I have a playlist that's long enough that the full playlist can't fit in the window all at once, and I try to drag a track up or down beyond the part of the playlist that's currently showing, the playlist used to automatically scroll so you could drag it anywhere in the long playlist. This is no longer possible, as the playlist won't scroll. See this video for what I mean:


http://www.robotovat.com/playlist_will_not_scroll_when_dragging_song.mov


This is very annoying, since when you add a track to a playlist, it default to being at the end, so I very often want to relocate it to some other playback position in the playlist. Now I have to drag it up, scroll the playlist up a bit, drag the track position up some more, scroll some more, etc etc, until I finally have it in the spot I want. Very tedious, very dumb.


On top of this, it's impossible to drag a track from anywhere in the playlist to the last position in the playlist. I have to drag track "A" to the second to last position, then drag the last track up one position to get track "A" into that last position. Also kind of silly. I think this issue existed before macOS26 Tahoe and Music app v1.6.


I've submitted this as a bug via their feedback, but I don't know if they'll consider it a "bug" or just a change that I don't like.

Posted on Oct 6, 2025 10:36 PM

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Oct 7, 2025 6:50 AM in response to JonYo

My work around for this, which I only discovered by mistake.


In View, I have mine set to "as Songs". I found by moving to "as Playlist" I could move songs around but lose the numbers on the left hand side so I usually move them to the very top is I use Ascending and then go back to "as Songs, pick a song where I want to the song(s) I just dragged up from the bottom to be placed, go back to "as Playlist" and slowly drag the songs to the song that I just picked out. It is a major pain but it works.

Dragging a track up or down in a playlist no longer scrolls the playlist

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