Music-Artists on iOS 8.0.2 - alphabet scroll

I thought I was the only one. My situation is identical.

I did notice this started happening when I added more than ~3,000 songs.

iPad Air is fine. Only affects my iPhone 6.

I Have the same thing but mine jumps from A to K. If I try to scroll to a letter before K it automatIcally goes to the beginning of the A artists. Haven't tried backing up and restoring yet, hoping an iOS update will correct the issue. Did not notice on my iPhone 5 or iPad mini.

FWIW, my iPhone 6 was set up as a new device. I don't think it's a backup issue.

I don't think it can be a hardware issue because I can alphabetically scroll Albums, Songs, and Compilations.

The categories that do not scroll properly are Artists, Composers, and Genres. They jump from A to U or V.

All other apps on the phone scroll just fine.

It could be an issue with song quantity(?) I have 22,240 songs synced.

The Music app is also very laggy in the categories that do scroll properly. Albums and Songs, for instance, stutters every time I scroll the titles (not the alphabet.)

When scrolling and selecting songs to play, the songs take at least 3 seconds to begin playing.

I'm wondering if the iPhone 6 and or the Music app is not designed for large libraries.

It's very annoying.

"they think it's a hardware issue"

This would be understandable except it's an issue for me on my iPhone 5.

Exactly, plus that section of the screen works for every other function/app. Definitely a software issue.

Im also experiencing this! Very frustrating. I would think its a software bug not hardware. Hopefully its resolved soon.

I have exactly the same problem but only 1000 songs in my library. So apparently the size of the music library doesn't matter. Thanks for keeping us posted.

Had the same problem. Then I saw that there was actually one artist among my "A..." artists that started with an A, but it was listed in the "V" column which only consisted of this one artist and was right between the "A"s.

It's kind of hard to explain, just scroll manually through your artists and check if everything is listed properly. When I deleted that one odd artist from my library the bug was fixed and I could use the alphabetic scrolling again!

I Think Radau might be on to something. I can see in my artist list there is an "M" (which is where my scroll jumps to from "A") in the middle of my "A" artists. I can't try the fix until I get home, but I have a feeling it might work. See image below for "M' breaking up "A" list.

yes exactly, that is what I meant before! And when you delete the "false M" artist everything should be fine, as long as there isn't any other artist that steps out of line and breaks up a list!

I noticed that as well with a "K" artist showing up under "A" because of a collaboration with an "A" artist. It was even an issue on my computer. I wonder if that is due to the new iTunes in sorting artists or an update in iTunes match adding the collaborator or something?

Just corrected it in iTunes to remove the other artists and synced my phone... it worked! Scrolls as it should!

Check your tagging in iTunes. Specifically, for the "Ann Wilson & Mike Reno" track:

• Check your "Album Artist" entry, you should have something entered (if not, that may be an issue that reveals an iOS bug like this). For a track like this, you might use "Ann Wilson", "Mike Reno", or "Ann Wilson & Mike Reno" depending on your preference.
• See if you have this tagged as "Part of a Compilation", it shouldn't be.