Apple Music doesn't work after Sonoma 14.3 update

Same issue here. EASY FIX: some tracks were playing because they were on the itunes file on my mac even if the music media location was saved as on an external hard disk. I reset it to the mac and then put it back to the hard disk. Problem solved.

I'm going to answer my own post. It turned out I did something incredibly stupid. I unintentionally dragged all my Music into documents (don't ask me how). I ended up calling Applecare, and was eventually connected to a senior tech who logged onto my screen told me what to do. It took about 20 minutes to undo my screwup.

It turns out I had a similar issue. My music library is stored in iCloud which lives in the folder Macintosh HD/Users/rene/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud Drive/. Once I gave the Music App full disc access, I was able to play my music again. Apple could have saved me hours by just giving me a proper error message why the music is not playing :/

Unfortunately this didn't work for me. The only thing that has worked for me is to "Right-click on the track you want to play, select Display in Finder. When the track is displayed in Finder, double-click it".

This makes the file play presumably by reinforcing the link but it will need to be done for every music file and there are thousands. Anyone know how to do this in bulk?

This simple solution worked for my library with 40k songs. For me the issue started after upgrading to 14.3.1 while there was no issue with 14.3. I'm really relieved that I didn't need to rebuild the library. Thanks.

Thanks! This worked for me as well!

Since I previously changed the location of all my music to a custom folder, it couldn't link any of my music with Apple Music because the update probably changed the location back to where the music files folder is by default.

I have a similar problem with Music on my MacAir2 but when I open Music I get the spinning ball then it closes and I get a lengthly text screen beginning with this:

Process: Music [39321]

Path: /System/Applications/Music.app/Contents/MacOS/Music

Identifier: com.apple.Music

Version: 1.4.3 (1.4.3)

Build Info: MusicDesktop-1004003027000~4

Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [1]

User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2024-02-20 15:42:50.6638 -0700

OS Version: macOS 14.3.1 (23D60)

Report Version: 12

Anonymous UUID: BA383A59-256E-FF11-7BD2-E6960431F6D3

Sleep/Wake UUID: BB7D177A-377F-4E00-B141-E0F0D186267D

Time Awake Since Boot: 760000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Music main Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000018daef33c

Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 5 Trace/BPT trap: 5

Terminating Process: exc handler [39321]

What's up? Does Apple plan to provide an update for those of us who downloaded Sonoma 14.3.1?

I wish I had found this thread earlier. Somehow I got it working again, but my problem was:

Downloaded HLS Media files would not play. It would STREAM totally fine, but the moment I downloaded the lossless file, it would play for 0.1 sec and then not respond. I'm coming from an older 2015 iMac, and I've been moving stuff manually to a Mac Studio M2 Max.

Long story short, I didn't know what to do, so I... deleted the whole Apple Music folder. I thought, what's the harm, since everything can be re-downloaded anyway. But I forgot I had some older files that aren't part of the subscription service, and I don't know where the CD's or original files are. Thank goodness I'm an iTunes Match subscriber, so technically I can just re-download everything.

Still, it was really weird that the only files that would not play, were the ones that were previously downloaded locally. I wish I'd known about the security setting and adding Apple Music to it, maybe that would've fixed it.

Of all the solutions I've read here, the only one that seems to work so far is to open a song in finder and then double-click. I have thousands of songs - this will take forever. There must be another way!!!! Thanks Apple for nothing!!!!! If anyone has a suggestion I would be very grateful. My itunes app is on my Mac Desktop, and I'm now on Sonoma 14.4.1. Please bear in mind I am not a tech-minded person or good at IT jargon. I also keep getting error message -54 whatever that may be, something to do with the music library it appears.

Thankfully I found this thread. This worked for me too, mind you I first spent an hour wasting time talking to 4 Apple "genius" reps - none of whom had a solution and had me reinstall the OS, which didn't work. This did and it was simple and took all of 5 minutes. Appreciate the help!

Under the "Privacy & Security" tab of System Settings, 1) drag the Music app from the Applications folder into the "Media & Apple Music" list then enable; 2) add the Music app from Applications folder to the list under the "Full Disk Access" tab then enable

Under the "Privacy & Security" tab of System Settings, 1) drag the Music app from the Applications folder into the "Media & Apple Music" list then enable; 2) add the Music app from Applications folder to the list under the "Full Disk Access" tab then enable

Under the "Privacy & Security" tab of System Settings, 1) drag the Music app from the Applications folder into the "Media & Apple Music" list then enable; 2) add the Music app from Applications folder to the list under the "Full Disk Access" tab then enable

My music is stored in the Cloud using iTunes Match. I don't want to have to re-import all my files again.

My library counts nearly 8000 songs and it ran for 15-20 seconds (Mac Mini M2 Pro). Reshuffling the files on OneDrive took a few minutes.