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What am I doing wrong? The Music app is a mess.
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What am I doing wrong? The Music app is a mess.
Aug 3, 2019
Ellicott City, MD
The Music app is just awful. I downloaded some of my music from Bandcamp. I copy the folder directly into Music, files are missing. I recopy the folder, now there are double entries INCLUDING the missing files. Driving me nuts.. is the program really this bad??
ItWasNotMe
macrumors 6502
Dec 1, 2012
Yes it is
I dropped some files into 'Automatically add' from a different disk. One went missing. Nowhere on the disk I use for media, not in music, not in the bin, not in a hidden folder. Good job it was only a copy. Used the 'Import' from the menu to bring the file in from the other disk. All worked fine copied to where it should be.
Seems to have an especial hatred for files with an extension of .m4a
[Edit: - See this thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/music-missing-features-bugs-issues-troubleshooting.2242371/]
I dropped some files into 'Automatically add' from a different disk. One went missing. Nowhere on the disk I use for media, not in music, not in the bin, not in a hidden folder. Good job it was only a copy. Used the 'Import' from the menu to bring the file in from the other disk. All worked fine copied to where it should be.
Seems to have an especial hatred for files with an extension of .m4a
[Edit: - See this thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/music-missing-features-bugs-issues-troubleshooting.2242371/]
I find it to be a complete mess, too. Simple things like searching on a file: I'll be typing into the search bar and the app will just jump to a completely different view and exiting me from search while I'm still trying to type the name of a song. This is not a case of me hitting the trackpad or something as I'm on my Mac Pro with a keyboard and the house is "far away". It seems to show duplicates for things that I have added from Apple Music but then buy from the iTunes Store. You'd think Apple could effectively de-dupe itself. You still can't make folders for Apple Music playlists so if you add them to your library you just have this massive stream of unorganized names to scroll through. The whole app needs an entire reboot.
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