Music is Over-Playing Itself

ed2345 Said:

"Once the track has been added to your library, just play it from the library. If you add the file again, you may get duplicates. See further information in turingtest2's Tip: Duplicate songs in iTunes - Apple Community"

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Thanks ed2345.

Gave the User Tip a Shot.

I backed up my library, and then deleted a the duplicates. Restarted the Mac and have been fine more half a day. But the issue now is that it's able to be played while its already bing played. No duplicates are made, but when dragged onto the Desktop, and I play it. It is replay-able, and all that is shown is one item in the Library. Only Music is open; Quicktime is not.

ed2345 Said:

"Hello The Littles,: Perhaps for MP3, you have something other than Music set to be the default player? Right-click the file icon, choose Open With, and you will see what's up:"

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Yes. Music is the default app. Indeed QuickTime Player plays it just fine. But it's on the Desktop where it sits.

ed2345 Said:

"Make sure that QuickTime and Music are both closed. Now right-click the MP3 and choose Open With > Music. What happens?"

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The file opens and plays.

Then, I am able to play it twice. This pops up again. Click it, and it plays once more, playing atop itself.

What's Open:

ed2345 Said:

"The Littles, When you play the file from the desktop with the Music app, it gets added to your Music library. If your "Copy..." preference is set to Yes, it will put a copy of the file into your Media folder, and you can discard the copy on the desktop. Once the song is in the library, please play it from the library, and avoid handling the files directly."

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It seems it has been duplicated.

The Down Arrow:

Look above the words "Remove Download". There is a down arrow. Not so certain about that down arrow. Apparently it has already been downloaded:

ed2345 Said:

"unless there is some particular reason for doing so, do not drag files to the desktop while they are being played."

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Just to Verify:

So, dragging a MP3 file to the Desktop, do you get that Play triangle, and play it while Music is playing it in the background.

Made Quicktime Player the Default:

This occurs to a Music file in any folder. And I guess I'd have to add it to my iTunes Music Library to avoid this. Opening a MP3 file with Quicktime Player as the default player is the way around this. So, that's what I've done.

ed2345 Said:

"No I do not. If you are downloading directly from the web, that is probably a setting in your browser."

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Uploading to macOS Monterey 12.0.1 fixed this.