cannot rename playlists in Music since OS 14.6.1 upgrade

"There is no bug in my opinion".

That is a silly an unhelpful statement, the fact that you don't see something in your system does not mean there is not a bug, any more than the fact that one person experiences it means that there is.

I've probably got 200 odd playlists, mostly smart. I only use non-smart playlists as data sources for smart playlists. I only use the auto-artwork for all playlists. All the music is mine, bought, owned and ripped by me. I don't use Apple Music streaming. I have about 25'000 songs in my library and I listen to music about 8 hours a day. I spend at least half an hour a day in the Music app creating/editing playlists and updating the library with track information (e.g. backing singers, engineer, release dates, guitar tunings, harp keys, runout info, etc.). I change playlist titles often - e.g. I'm currently listening to a playlist of albums I bought when I lived in a particular location which have been listened to <112 times; it's called "No. 17<112" When I've finished it, I'll change the rules to <113 and rename the playlist accordingly.

I haven't use the work-around of 16/10/24 because I don't need to. I've simply deleted of all my playlists which don't have auto-artwork (i.e. the artwork at the top of the window is just grey) after replicating them by duplicating playlists which do have artwork and then changing the duplicates to the rules or contents that I want. Ditto if I want to create a new playlist I just duplicate a working one then change it to what I need. As a result I don't have any problems changing playlist names because, as I've stated here and on other discussions, for me this name-update problem is only related to whether or not the playlist has auto-artwork. If I want to change the name of an empty smart playlist which has a greyed out auto-artwork then then first I change the rules to fill it with something so that the auto-artwork is populated then I'm able to change the name with no problems.

I also have a smart playlist which shows the latest played tracks which I check regularly to make sure track metadata is being updated.

I think 15.1 fixed it for me too. Fingers crossed.

Prior to 15.1, restarting my Mac or even quitting Apple Music would cause playlist names and downloads to revert to an outdated state. Now, that seems to be fixed, but only time will tell.

See if deleting either of the following items helps:

• user/library/preferences/com.apple.Music.plist
• user/library/caches/com.apple.Music

You might also need to empty the trash.

tt2

Thanks tt2 - I had tried this, as well as rebooting the Mac in safe mode, to no avail.

I'm a bit cautious about deleting plists. Do you know what preferences get reset when I delete the plist. I assume it won't affect the database or any meta data.

Thanks, tt2. I'm sure you're right but I'll hold off deleting stuff for a bit until Apple fix it or, more likely, it starts to really annoy me or stops me doing something.

"Backspacing out text" didn't work for me. Also adding text doesn't work either.

Didn't help me either. Rebuilt my prefs after deleting plist a couple times. No change in behavior.

You tried the method outlined in the link I just posted before your comment?

Thanks for the heads up, indeed it is fixed for me as well, playlists now rename instantly as they should.

This is good news. However, Apple should fix it for 14.x as well, since many playlist users are DJs and music producers who cannot update to 15 at this time due to dependencies.

I upgraded directly from 14.x to 15.1. There was an option to upgrade to 14.y for those not wanting to make the jump; I assume the playlist-name bug hasn't been fixed in that.