How to stop Music on iPhone from playing super fast

OK I solved this. The short explanation is that Apple expects you to use WiFi to play Apple Music, and when on the road, cellular data. That doesn’t work for me at all on T-Mobile. I remember learning something similar when Apple’s podcast player insisted on streaming rather than downloading at night while phone is on WiFi and charging.

From doing some R&D on an airplane and playing with connectivity settings I have come to the conclusion that my Apple Music trial took liberties with all of my settings having to do with cellular settings. It enabled “allow Music to Access Cellular Data” which I never had enabled. I turned it off and also turned off “Show Apple Music”. I turned off “Show all Purchases” as I determined that they insisted on cellular streaming. I turned off Animated Art as it it streamed.

I had once noticed prior to that with Apple Music playing, that my iPhone GPS was nonfunctional as the music sucked up all of the cellular data.

Apple made a poor choice by assuming that we all have Cadillac data plans on our phones.

i eventually get it working again, by killing the players that I use (Apple, eCoute, Marvis, etc. But every time that I go to listen to music I have to keep killing music players, toggling blue tooth on and off, rebooting the iPhone, etc. my feeling is that my cancelled Apple subscription has left some residual files or settings on my phone.

I often ask Siri to play some of my music and it says “there was an error connecting to Apple Music” and I always say “Of course there was, Siri…”. and then I mess with it until it works, turning off cellular data and darn near every setting until functions.

I wish that I had never signed up for the promotional Apple Music offer. If it weren’t for the fact that I play music and take hands free phone calls while I drive I’d just grab an old Android but nobody knows that number anymore.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why this happens.