Why just a specific track? It’s almost always unclear-but it does put paid to the idea that music in your library is actually in your library. For example, one of my biggest frustrations is discovering that a specific track from an album that I’ve added to my library is unavailable because of streaming rights. While being able to include both tracks from your personal library and Apple Music in one unified interface has its benefits, especially when it comes to ease of use, it can sometimes feel like Apple’s performing some clever legerdemain. In implementation, however, the macOS Music app is basically the former iTunes app with Apple Music’s streaming functionality bolted on. He also discusses how search doesn’t work as well as it used to and how it lost his star ratings. Recently Played only provides the entire song, album, or playlist I was listening to from its start. Surely, the section under it, Recently Played, is exactly what I want? No, I want what I was last listening to, where I was last listening to it, tied directly to the play button. I can, instead, see the four things that Apple thinks I want immediate access to. Anything I was looking at in the interface is wiped away too.

I can’t resume playback of anything I was listening to on this device, or any other. It doesn’t matter what I was previously listening to in the app-that information has been lost to the sands of time.

When launching the Music app on macOS, you always start off at the Listen Now section of the app. And yes, many of these problems are tied to changes made for the Apple Music service.

Here I am, in the year 2023, and I have the same problems using the app that I’ve had for about half a decade at this point. Look, I’ve been hoping that at some point, the rocky transition from iTunes to the Music app would be over and we’d all look back on it and say, “Wow, I can’t believe that was so brief.” But it isn’t over.

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