Music not working on iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1

Mine made no sound at all. What I did to fix it was un-sync all music, disconnect the iPhone, close iTunes, restart the iPhone, restore the iPhone, and then sync the music again. It seems to be working fine now. Try that.

Same here...except I lost all my apps and music too! Some things remained like my contacts, messages and photos. But losing all my music and apps seriously *****. How can apple release such crap "upgrades"? How is it not automatic that the info gets backed up in itunes before the phone gets wipped of my stuff? Very ****** at apple right now.

I've also had trouble with this and it's kind of annoying how it seems to only affect the purchased songs... It's as if Apple is subtly supporting piracy and flipping the bird to all those who actually paid for songs...

BUT

I have figured a way to remedy it... although it is quite a long process. You can redownload the songs from the iTunes app on your iDevice and the songs should play again... but that means having to go through your existing song list and delete the ones you brought through iTunes. So if you want your music that's a solution... I guess...

I'm just praying Apple can fix this MAJOR screw up quickly

Thank god I only had 1 song I purchased from itunes that had this problem.. I deleted it and redowloaded it again and it works fine now! thanks for that tip!

I had a similar problem on my iPhone 4S. You might want to try the following:

- Uncheck Sync Music in iTunes and sync (this will delete all music from your phone).

- Check Sync Music in iTunes and sync (this will put the songs back on your device).

Solved my problem where my Purchased songs either wouldn't play or would display the wrong art work when they did decide to play.

I am having the same problem I tried what ya'llsuggested unsync resync and it is still not playing any of the songs I choose it will skip over and play what it wants and the songs it plays do not match the album art

OK, so it's apparent from the previous posts that this is a known bug to the ios5 release. Does anyone from Apple IT support check these threads??? Is this issue (not a minor bug) being addressed? Do you have an ETA on the patch release?

I tried the unsync - synch method and still nothing. It will either download personal collection music with one or 2 purchased songs or all purchased but no personal never the 2 combined. Also tried dropping and dragging songs into a new set lis as well as dropping and draging to the devise. When i went to upload the new set list all it did was upload the personal collection and tell me 66 songs ( these are the purchased songs) could not be uploaded and to see ITunes for details however there were no details to be found. At one point it downloaded everything purchased including songs I did not check. Right now after several unsync - sync attempts only personal songs are in my IPhone. If this is an operating system flaw then Apple needs to address this via phone calls from us at no charge. 29 bucks to talk to them for their apparent screw up is ridiculous.

I was able to fix this for ALL my devices but this is what I had to do.

1) delete ALL Music from my "i" device. (iPad2 and iPhone4)

2) do not connect "i" device to computer but open iTunes.

3) delete any custom playlists inside of iTunes. (I left the default ones.)

4) backup your music inside of iTunes. (I technically already had a backup since I set iTunes to copy the music from the folder I had it in to the folder iTunes uses.)

5) delete ALL Music from inside of iTunes.

6) have iTunes import your library of music from your backup/folder. (I set mine to copy those music files into the iTunes folder structure like I had set in the past. Good way to have a backup.) Note this will take a long time 2-4 hrs.

7) now connect your "i" device to your computer and have it sync. Note this will take a long time 2-4 hrs.

8) once the syncing was complete my music playing worked just fine on ALL my "i" devices.

9) recreate your custom playlists.

NOTE: inside of iTunes for my "i" devices I have the preference set to convert the music from iTunes to my "i" devices using 128Kbps AAC or something like that. I do that to save space on my "i" devices because most of my music is MP3 320Kbps files which are big.

I hope this helps someone else experiencing this problem. Yes I know this is not an ideal workaround because of the time it takes etc. But it does work. ALL my music plays now on ALL "i" devices.

I took it to the Apple Store and they did a restore then I synced it when I got home using ITunes. Works fine now 🙂

I tried this and it worked for me.

- Uncheck Sync Music in iTunes and sync (this will delete all music from your phone).

- Check Sync Music in iTunes and sync (this will put the songs back on your device).

I'm running 5.0.1 on iPad 2 and I'm having the same issue, iOS 5.1 should come out by January 31st. Hopefully that will fix it

I getting the same problem:

iTunes doesnt update music information like genre, album, artist name at my iPhone 4.

After sync, the information doesnt appers on iPhone 4. I aready restarted iPhone but do nothing.

iPhone 4 16G

iOS 5.0.1

iTunes version 10.5

Thks in advance

Rodrigo

I got an iPhone 4S, 5.0.1 and I can't listen to any of my songs I purchased from iTunes too. What I don't understand is that it worked fine after updating to 5.0.1 but then stopped working one day last week???

Same thing here. It stopped playing just now just earlier it was playing on my 4s after syncing when i connected iphone to my computer, the moment i played the iphone with no usb it suddenly kept skipping to the next track or even not playing at all. What seems to be wrong here?