Settings app crashes when managing stored Music (iTunes Match)

Already reported by me, but the more people report, the more visibile it will be to the tech team.

Having the same problem - unfortunately the "Group by album" was already turned on, and turning it off didn't work, neither did turning it on again.

I'm just devastated by this. It better not be that bloody U2 album that has ruined my iPhone 5. I am just about to head overseas on a 3 month trip and my iPhone 5 is now useless as a music player which was my sole reason for spending $1000 on a 64 gig phone. Freakin devastated and nothing I can do.

@Pedroagogo why? It is not useless. You can still listen to music and delete it from the Music app.

it is a infuriating bug, but the Music app should be perfectly functional.

However, I filed a bug report and referred to this disscussion thread.

Roberto

Ouch...

By the way, my bug report is now reported in apple's bug reporter as duplicate of an earlier bug report which is now marked as closed. Therefore, I would assume that the software will be fixed in the next iOS update. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

Roberto

This was huge. I've been trying to solve this bug for a month. Thanks.

Incredible Roberto! I have no idea how you put the right pieces together to fix this bug, but I'm very impressed. Thanks for solving this problem for me and others.

8.1 seems to have fixed this. At least, it works well regardless of the "Group by Album Artist" setting on my iPhone.

Unfortunately, 8.1 hasn't fixed it for me. On my iPhone 6, anyway.

On my iPad air, it's fine, but not on the iPhone 6.

I think it has something to do with the nature of the music files, but I'm not sure what.

Apple lossless vs. AAC 256?

Embedded artwork vs. non-embedded?

Compilation albums vs non-compilation?

The answer lies somewhere within.

But it's still a bug...

Ok, so I just transferred some lossless music over to the iPad. Now it crashes too.

With AAC 256, it doesn't.

Could this be it?

I don't have any lossless music on my iPhone yet it crashes for me, so while it might be a reason it's certainly not the reason

Thanks for the feedback. I guess we'll keep digging. 🙂

So I've tried syncing various combinations of music from my iTunes library.

There really doesn't seem to be any discernible pattern whatsoever.

The most perplexing experiment I've done involves syncing two separate albums. Let's call them A and B. The results were:

1) Album A by itself - doesn't crash

2) Album B by itself - doesn't crash

3) Album A & B together - crash

This seems to suggest that there's nothing wrong with the metadata on each album per se, but something about the combination of the two freaks the system out. On the upside, this is 100% reproducible, which helps I guess.

I have the same problem, have tried everything already and nothing works. I am curious to see if/when there will be an answer.