iOS 5.0 Music app TERRIBLE
So far, I've only updated my iPad2 to iOS 5. Because of the Music app experience alone, I will not update my iPhones.
Music will only play a minority of my songs, with no clear rhyme or reason: Songs copied in from physical CD's, songs purchased through iTunes store recently, songs purchased long ago. All digital music was purchased with my Apple ID.
It either claims to be playing, but there's no motion of the progress bar and no sound, or it flies through a series of songs within a second, making no sound, then finally landing on one that it actually plays correctly, or pretend to play (with no motion of the progress bar and no sound). It does seem to consistently play the same songs successfully.
All songs play fine on my iPhones and my computer. I'm using iTunes 5.0 on OS X 10.6.8 (I can't update to Lion because I need a few Rosetta programs).
I will try to stop syncing of all music next (to delete it from the iPad), then resume syncing to see if it helps. Any way to reinstall the Music app or all of iOS 5 itself??? Thanks.
--Scott