thanks wiclee, tried it all. even with the latest iOS, plenty of available room, and rebooting after doing your suggestions, this app still crashes when i do a search.
in fact, it crashes a lot, when doing other things too. if i could i would deleted the stupid app. which makes having to wipe out everything to get this app to work crazy making. if was any non-apple app, you would delete the darn thing and reinstall, and not have to wipe out the entire ipad for one app.
this should be an embarassment to apple. i only use the app to find music for PURCHASING. so out of frustration, i don't and they lose money. not good business.
and then a few days before christmas, i thought i would look for new christmas tunes. but wait, there's no longer a Holiday genre option on the iPad iTunes app. in fact, there was nothing in there, other than a small sale they were having, that had to do anything with Holiday music. ***. again, nothing purchased.
i guess i should be happy. because this app doesn't work, i've saved myself a lot of money. shame on apple. you'd think this would be the benchmark app for the company. but from it's performance, clearly this is not a priority.