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Can't drop a song from Finder into a playlist #105

Open lgarron opened 2 years ago

lgarron commented 2 years ago

If I drop a song file from Finder into a Music.app playlist on macOS, it will be added to the library.

However, despite a ride line showing "you're dropping this song at this spot int he playlist" (just like when dragging from inside Music.app)... it will not be added to the playlist. Just to the library. You have to go through the clunky "Recently added" UI to get the song and then drag it back.

If you're trying to add multiple songs that aren't grouped into the same album, you have to go through that clunk process for each individual song. (I use a custom smart playlist to work around this, similar to #69. But only if I think ahead of time how cranky Music.app is going to make me.)

Dragging songs from the filesystem into a playlist worked perfectly for more than a decade, no idea which new Apple feature made this so buggy. 🤷

lgarron commented 2 years ago

Okay, it looks like sometimes you can drag a song onto the playlist in the sidebar (not the open playlist)...

... if the playlist is empty.

... or maybe if the playlist already has a song. But then the newly added song will only appear to be in it temporarily, and disappear when you try to click on it to play it?!!!?!

This behaviour is so flaky, it's hard to tell what's a repro vs. a one-off issue.

lgarron commented 1 year ago

This seems to be less buggy now! I was able to drag a song from Finder directly into a playlist today, and it's been months (years?) since that worked! 🥳

lgarron commented 1 year ago

This seems to be less buggy now! I was able to drag a song from Finder directly into a playlist today, and it's been months (years?) since that worked! 🥳

... and never mind, the song disappeared from said playlist after about a minute.

EDIT: it looks like actually the playlist was duplicated, leaving the a forked copy (which had its view settings partially reset) and a copy which had the new song (which had the exact view settings and columns of the original playlist).

lgarron commented 1 year ago

... and never mind, the song disappeared from said playlist after about a minute.

... and also, the issue has returned for all subsequent songs that I've dropped into Music.app from Finder tonight (about half a dozen).