iPad Music app - Playing by Artist stops after one album

Yes, that will happen if you click on a song to play. If you simply select Play (the ">" icon) it will play all the songs in all the artist albums. This, of course, may not be possible if you were previously playing a song.

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Yes,

same experience.

Won't work if a song is already playing and you choose another artist. When you press the play button the original song, not from the artist's list, will start playing again. You literally have to close the music app and reopen it to achieve the once simple task of playing all songs by an artist. In order to achieve the "one button" ability of playing all the songs from one artist like in iOS 4, you have to perform a holy miracle now. The "Music" app is riddled with so many bugs and problems that it is n't even funny. Apparently the iPhone Music app is completely different from the iPad Music app.

So many things that were fixed in iOS 4 are now back to non-functional in iOS5 Music.

It will take 2-3 updates from Apple to fix this application.

It still works on my iPhone 3GS, but it won't on my iPad2. I've updated both to the IOS5. Apparently, the engineers at Apple are smarter than the rest of us.

When are they going to fix this issue? I HATE this about the new music app and they need to fix it. Not being able to play all songs by artist is so aggravating!

That workaround is not so good. If you have any song playing when you select another artist (which is usually the case) you do not have the capability to stop that song and play the new artist. Pressing Play simply restarts the song that was playing. Even terminating the Music App and restarting it does not change this.

The only way to work around this is to create a Playlist of all the Artists songs. You can then select that Playlist and tap the first song to play all the Artist's songs.

Unfortunately there's no way around the fact that the current music player is a significant regression from the previous player. I'm not sure what Apple was thinking when they came out with this.

If you do not like this situation submit feedback to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

I've just downloaded an app called SmartPlaylist that makes it a lot easier to listen to all songs by one artist. You can also create quick playlists containing songs by several artists. Seems pretty good so far! Worth paying a dollar for (at least until Apple sorts out the Music app).

The problem seems to still not be fixed with iOS 5.1.1

Here's a workaround that has solved the issue for me. Once you get to the artist page (listing of tracks next to album covers), if the progess bar at the top is not blank, tap the back arrow until it is. Turn Shuffle on. Press play. It will now play all tracks regardless of album.

The key is to have a blank progress bar at the top. If you select a track, it will only play that album.

Thanks so much for the tip, which has really bugged me for a long time until I saw your post.