Downloaded music not playing on iPhone with iOS 15.4

Apple just isn't what it used to be 😔. It's basically as bad as Microsoft these days. A new update released every other day and each time they do it's an unfinished product full of bugs and issues. Apple never used to be like this 20 years ago!

Hello DJBiggystyle,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand that your downloaded songs are taking longer to play than expected.

Does this happen when you are not connected to any devices like your Beats or car stereo? Beats wireless headphones use Apple AAC Bluetooth Codec to ensure excellent audio quality. However, Bluetooth connections aren't lossless. So, testing without those connections can help isolate whether this might be related to lossless audio. Check out About lossless audio in Apple Music.

Take care.

Just updated to iOS 15.4 this morning and Music just keeps telling me that an error occurred and won’t let me listen to music at all except for stuff that I’ve purchased/ downloaded or playlists that I’ve made already. There’s no option to use the “Listen Now”, “Browse”, or “Search” features. This renders an app that I pay a monthly fee for basically useless. Unacceptable!

I may have come up with a fix:

Open the Settings application > tap on your name. Here click on “media & purchases” > sign out.

*Power off phone*

Power back on and then sign back in…

seems to have worked for me

Yes…since the iOS 15.4 update l have had a number of issues on my iPhone SE 2nd Gen - never had problems before.

Not only do tracks skip on Apple Music, but I get an odd hesitation before each one is played.

In additon, my AirPods used to connect almost immediately with my iPhone once I put them in my ear - now there can be quite a delay before they are recognised.

Feels like there are some serious glitches with this update.

This is happening on my HomePods and HomePod mini's too -- since the update to 15.4 it will not play music on my HomePod speakers from my Apple Music library -- i.e., music that I purchased through iTunes. When I say "hey Siri play music from my Apple Music library (a phrase I have used forever)". Siri responds "I am unable to play your music." Additionally, when I stream music from my iPhone to the HomePods it now is unable to pause, stop or skip songs using hey Siri on the HomePods.

I have this problem now with my XR iPhone in the car plugged into the usb, it takes a long time for the song to start and them it won’t finish the song and it will play the song for about 10 seconds and go to the next song. This has not happened before I downloaded the update of IOS 15.4.1 any suggestions please!!

Happens on my phone too. iPhone XS 256gb. No lossless audio, vbr MP3’s only. No Bluetooth connection. Updated to offices 15.4 release. Never happened before.

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I'm getting random gaps inbetween tracks which is really frustrating as I use my Ipad when teaching my fitness classes. Has anybody else experienced this?

I am having the same exact problem with the random, 2 second gaps since updating to 15.4

It's really annoying. I've tried rollingg back to the previous update but it won't let me restore my previous back up.

I guess we just have to hope that the next update addresses this issue. Sucks!!

Hopefully not too far away now more people have made them aware of it. So frustrating.

Is this a fix for the 2 second random gap between tracks?

Sorry, to be clear, it fixed the not streaming issue. I’m not sure about the 2 second gap since I never even got to that point because I couldn’t even access my music. Worth trying, though…?