Music player pausing briefly between songs after iOS 15.4 update

Today I tried the Foobar2000 app as sustitute for the iPod player. WOW!!! is my feeling afterwards😀 Smooth gapless music as it’s meant to sound. So happy I read your tips in this thread❣️ Now I can do my spinning classes without interruptions until Apple fixes the bug. Hope this helps more than me😁🚴🏻🎼

Same here. Issued fixed after update to iOS 15.5. Thanks for the tip.

It appears updating to 15.5 fixed the gap between tracks for me.

I tried again today after reading people saying 15.5 fixed it, and I'm not having the issue anymore.

Thanks for getting back to us about this, cgwhitman72.

In order to have the best understanding of the issue, we'd like you to go ahead and try streaming any music for us. That will give us a clue as to the source of the issue. Also, can you see if this behavior persists when not on a Wi-Fi network? You can allow your iPhone to be connected to a cellular network only for testing.

To verify cellular data is enabled for the Music app, go to Settings > Cellular (or Settings > Mobile Data) > Scroll down to "Music" and enable. After testing, you can turn that off, so not to use cellular data for the Music app.

Additionally, since this is not occurring when using headphones, please take a look at this article for some tips on wireless interference that could be contributing: Resolve Wi-Fi and Bluetooth issues caused by wireless interference.

Let us know if we can help with anything else at all or if this doesn't settle your issue. Thanks and have a fabulous day!

I would say, download Foobar2000 which has solved my gym problem! No thanks to Apple....... ;)

Turning on airplane mode seems to fix it for me.

Not sure why you're still having issues. I had the problem previously but since the latest couple of updates it's back to working fine. Currently running 15.5.

For the record I am having the exact same issue after iOS 15.4 - it is inconsistent so it is hard to troubleshoot. What I can say is it happens when playing music directly from the iPhone speakers, headphones, Bluetooth, and AirPlay devices. This happens for both downloaded music, and streamed music. Like cgwhitman72 mentioned, it does not happen every time. This was not an issue before the update to iOS 15.4.

I also have this issue. This is a live concert CD (if specifics are needed, it’s Rush — Live in YYZ 1981, released in 2022); I copied the CD into iTunes 12.12.3.5 yesterday using the default settings (AAC, 128/256 Kbps). The pause on my iPhone 11 Pro is inconsistent (probably determined by song length) - Brown’s Bane (0:50) did not pause, but TheTrees (4:20) did (the pause is about 250 ms). I rewound to the end of the short song, and it played the long song with no pause. Therefore, it sounds like an issue with caching the music track.

Having the same annoying problem since 15.4 :( any update? It happens with Bluetooth speakers, internal iPhone speakers, AirPods Pro….. and not only with the music app but with all audios, also podcasts and other apps !