Apple has issued a new support document clarifying that in macOS Catalina, ‘ all your favorite iTunes features, including the iTunes Store, will soon be available in three new and more focused apps. MacOs Catalina 10.15 (19A583) After upgrading to Catalina, the Play button on the Mac Keyboard no longer controls Spotify. With Spotify open, no other music player, if I hit the Play/Pause button, it will open the Apple Music app and not control Spotify.
Available with an Apple Music subscription. Listen to songs and albums by Catalina, including 'Smoky Mountains,' 'Lips Whisper,' 'No More,' and many more. Thankfully, I saw that the version of James Blake's recent album 'Assume Form' joined the Apple Music version in not just the Music app on the MacBook Pro I was testing Catalina on, but also my. Apple Music library is not a satisfactory replacement for iTunes Music. This product is lined with issues and likely stems from a much larger issue with Apple. Catalina is an extremely poor product release.
iTunes is gone in macOS Catlina, and the new Music app that replaces it is fairly similar in broad strokes. However, some users are having trouble finding how to search their own music library, as opposed to the iTunes Store.
When I tested this, typing any search into the Search field in the upper-left corner of the Music app produced results that I could switch by clicking one of three buttons in a lozenge in the upper-right corner: Apple Music, Your Library, and iTunes Store. When I selected Your Library, songs I’d purchased or ripped from CDs I owned appeared in the results.
The interface doesn’t make that the most visible element to choose, and in my study I cannot find any way to prevent the lozenge from appearing.
However, after searching, clicking on an album, and clicking play, which brings up a new playback bar at the top of Music, the buttons were obscured. I had to click the < (back) button at the upper-left corner of the screen a few times, and then the lozenge reappeared.
If you don’t see the collection-selection lozenge, I suggest trying:
Click the x in the Search results and try again.
Click the pause button if music is playing.
Click the < (back) button to work backward in searches.
Quit and relaunch Music.
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