I have a MacBook Air M3. It came with Sequoia. I’m trying to transition from my MacBook Air M1 that is still running Big Sur, and I’m finding that some apps either behave or appear differently. I’ll start with a Music question, but I expect to have more questions and invite others to post their own related questions.
I have never purchased a song or video from Apple Music store. The Music app claims to know where my songs are located on my internal drive (~/Music/Music/Media was already in Music’s Settings), but I cannot get Music to display them, even by navigating to “~/Music/Music/Music Library.musiclibrary” in the Finder and telling the Finder to open that file in Music. What am I doing wrong or failing to do? And why is the directory Music repeated? (It came that way from the old computer.)
It’s the same on my Mac too. I think Apple made a mistake calling the top-level folder ‘Music’ instead of something more generic like ‘Audio’ which would make more sense:
~/Audio/Music/Music Library.ext
Sadly, no one at Apple has yet asked for my input.
(I’d also rename ~/Pictures/ to ~/Images/ while I’m at it.)
@Will_M I don’t use Music on my MBAir with Sequoia but I just launched it for the first time and looked in Settings > Files and in that tab you can point to where your music is stored and maybe then it will show in the Music App.
Possibly the file path shows the word Music twice as there might be other things besides actual music you can put in the library and for whatever reason Music is the name of the first folder.
Hope that helps! good luck!
I had never used AI, but I figured there’s a first time for everything and I followed your link. And we have a winner!
Step 3 solved the problem. I had assumed that because my Music Library.musiclibrary had made it to the new computer, the music Library had made it to the new computer. Evidently not. Step 3 told me to add files to my library: “Open the Music app, then go to File > Add to Library. Navigate to the folder containing your music files and select them to add them to your library.” (Those files were exactly where Music’s Settings > Files was already pointing, but now the songs are shown in Music.)
I still have much disdain for AI, but it is one-for-one on solving my problem.
I wonder if it would have worked to “change” to the already-stored location. I didn’t think to try that. But, as I said, Music was already showing the current location.
Thanks for posting the solution that worked for you!
As I’ve said in other threads, even though I am highly focused on security and privacy plus happen to be proud of my painstakingly developed Boolean and search engine query skills, I really like Perplexity. If a traditional search site is going to be complicated to use for something (say, because I only have a vague recollection of something I’m looking for or I’m not sure of the exact wording I need to use), the conversational language prompts at Perplexity make searching easier and quicker. Plus I appreciate how Perplexity cites its sources unlike most other genAI’s.
And let’s face it: the tracking and usage information created by using generative AI is no worse than using Google, social media, or public message boards these days. So in many ways I view searching via Perplexity, MS Copilot, ChatGPT, or the DuckDuckGo genAI launch pad to be equivalent to posting on, say, a Meta-owned service or using a Google product.
And I read your posts with interest because of your focus. You might be one of the few people more concerned about security and privacy than I am; you are certainly more erudite concerning it.
The thread title mentions app behavior and appearance, but this comment and question is more about the OS itself.
Under Big Sur, I do not recall ethernet losing its connection when the computer sleeps. Under Sequoia, it seem to be routine. Twice now, both with an Anker adapter, the connection was reestablished a short while after I woke the computer. Also twice, both times with a Vava hub (providing power, USB, display port, ethernet), the connection was not reestablished after much longer than with the Anker adapter. Why does ethernet disconnect? It is possible that the connection was simply reestablished almost instantly under Big Sur so that I didn’t notice that it had been disconnected, but then why would it take much longer under Sequoia? And if the connection can be reestablished on the Anker adapter, why not on the Vava hub?
More importantly, is there anything I can do to keep ethernet connected or to make it reconnect more quickly?
Today, with the Anker adapter, ethernet had lost its connection. By “lost its connection”, I mean ethernet is shown as having a self-assigned IP address in the System Settings > Network pane.
I have three ethernet adapters. When I connect the ethernet cable to a new adapter, the new adapter appears in the Network pane with a green dot. But today, when I tried to use the previous adapter, ethernet failed to establish a proper connection. Since I’m now out of ethernet adapters, I hope someone can tell me how to keep the ethernet connection alive or at least reset it after I wake the computer. Anyone?
“Music” is repeated because the first occurrence is the overall Music folder and the second is the app name “Music”. E.g. there is also Music/GarageBand (for me anyway).
Following is how this is on my Sequoia Mac, but it might be different for others: Inside Music\Music there should be a folder “Media”. Then inside that there is a Music folder, differentiating it from other media types such as Podcasts. I think this is a remnant from the days when the Music app was the way all those other media types were managed. Inside that Music folder (~/Music/Music/Media/Music) should be a whole bunch of folders, one per artist.
In your Music settings do you have both options check marked: “Keep Music Media folder organized” and “Copy files to Music Media folder when adding to library”?
Indeed. On older systems, the folder would have been ~/Music/iTunes, but on systems that have libraries created after Apple replaced the iTunes app with the Music app, it is called ~/Music/Music.
Eek, no! Apparently Apple’s and my ideas of organization have little in common. I checked that box once and then spent hours restoring the songs to the arrangement that I prefer. In the same vein, I copy files to the Music Media folder and put them where I want them.
Interesting. I don’t recall what changes Apple made when I checked the “Keep Music Media folder organized” box, but much of my subsequent efforts were to restore all songs by an artist to a folder named for that artist. It was a long time ago.
Now it’s iMazing that’s giving me fits. After reporting several updated apps are available, iMazing says that it cannot download any of them. This is with both iMazing 3 and iMazing 2. It feels like it might be some permission setting that Sequoia introduced (I had no problem a month ago using the old MBA and Big Sur), but I cannot find anything that looks like it would be causing a problem. Any hints?
My guess is that the Music app had/created a fresh library index file since the old one from Big Sur was outmoded, and rather than assuming any folder full of music files it had found was what you wanted in this new library that import action was not automatic. This provides the user an option to reposition the folder or choose a different one, and also allows a change of the setting that controls whether the music files are moved into the standard folder path or remain in-place.
If your music files were moved on import (adding) and you would prefer to store them elsewhere, that can be done after some tuning of the Music>Files settings, moving the files, and using that Change… button to re-target the new location.