Music app: Cannot drag more than ~15 songs into playlist folder after macOS 27 update

Can’t drag batch of more than approximatley 15 songs into a playlist folder

I used to be able to drag a batch of more than 100 songs into a playlist folder in the Music app without any problems. However, since updating to macOS 27, I can no longer do this with batches of more than 15 songs.

If I select around 15 songs or fewer, dragging them into a playlist folder works as expected. However, when I select more than 15 songs, the drag-and-drop operation fails and the cursor keeps spinning indefinitely.

This issue occurs on both my M4 Mac mini and my Mac Studio with M2 Ultra.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue since updating to macOS 27? Is there a workaround or solution?

Thanks!

I would like to make it clear that 15 is approximately the limit, rather than implying that the failure always occurs at exactly 16 songs.

Posted on Oct 6, 2026 9:30 PM

2 replies

sooperfresh

Level 2 (377 points)

Oct 7, 2026 2:11 PM in response to Mitch 751

Skip the drag: select the songs, Control-click, Add to Playlist and pick it from the list. That route doesn't use drag and drop at all, which looks like the broken part of Music in 27 (another thread here has drags from a smart playlist landing every song three times). If you'd rather build big playlists outside Music, Katalog (musickatalog.com) runs alongside it and Cmd-P turns the whole selection into a new playlist in one go.

Mitch 751 Author

Level 6 (11,675 points)

Oct 7, 2026 5:01 PM in response to sooperfresh

thank you