Music app crashes with IOS 8.3 after playing two songs

Creating new Playlists (with same settings like the old ones) seems to fix the problem - no crashes - I keep trying and will report...

Here`s a solution,

1, go to iPhone music strage erase all music files.

2, You'll find couple of songs still remain . That's what problem people who iTunes match.

3, Turn on all songs then download only songs which couldn't erase manually.

4, Turn off all songs then erase it . now your iPhone music is empty.

5, recovered problem about crashes from smartplay list.

I am having these same issues, if I can even get to a smart playlist before crashing, I can play only one song before crash. I do not have music match turned on for this devise. Many times I cannot even get to a smart playlist before the app crashes. At least through these post I found I could play from "songs" , "albums" or " artists" via shuffle or regular play with no problems (as long as I get there before the app crashes). I will try deleting and recreating my playlists and see if that works.

iOS8.3 iPhone 5 16GB

IMHO, I believe the whole crashing issue revolves around the "Smart Playlist" no matter the criterium.

Hopefully Apple with resolve this issue soon, as I rely on "Smart Playlists" to listen to my many tracks.

My smart playlist crashes iTunes immediately when I have "Limit to xx items" ticked. When I remove this the playlist plays as it should but when I turn it on again it iTunes crashes after playing just one bar or less.

Same here man.

I have an iPhone 6 and my music app just crashes, not even giving me a chance to even play a song. But the best alternative I found is to ask our "assistant" Siri 😎 to play the smart playlist. But it will be a pain until the bug is fixed.

Same issues here on an iPod touch 5th generation after upgrading to iOS 8.3.....very frustrating!

You're right Erik, deflagging the smart playlist limit on iTunes, it works properly on iPhone after having sync it. Thank you for the trick, guy.

Apple should be more careful with these bugs, uottafoq.

Will give this a try but for syncing with phones this can be a problem -- the limit is very useful for items with smaller memory space.

Please remember to submit reports to Apple. The only way they will fix it is if they are flooded with reports!

Bit of an update for everyone, that may help.

I've found a work-around for my situation (that I detailed in my original attached post), i.e. not being able to play my 4 and 5 star Smart-Playlis - thought it may help some of you out there.

As mentioned by others, it seems me to only have affected my Smart Playlists.

If you remove these faulty Playlists from your iPhone, by de-selecting the relevant Smart-Playlists on music page, and then sync to iTunes.

Then, back in iTunes, create new Playlists (in my case 5 Star Manual) and copy all songs from original 5 Star Smartest to newly created. Then re-sync to iPhone, selecting the new playlist, and at least they become playable without crashing.

Downside, is that if you change the rating (in my example) it won't update, but still a way of playing my lost song selections.

Hope this may help some of you, until Apple get's it's arse in gear!!!

Regards

iPhone 5c, iOS 8.3

Since the upgrade to iOS 8.3 I can only play my smart playlists without crashing 10 seconds into any song if I turn off "random" play, and if I do not skip any songs. If start a smart playlist at the beginning and don't touch the phone, things work. If I turn on random or skip a song - kaboom, crash, and it never opens again. This is really quite ridiculous. What feature was added in the upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3 that would interfere with such a basic function as randomly playing a playlist or heaven forbid, skipping a song?

I too have had this problem with my "Recently Played" playlist. I tried the usual reset settings, then erased phone and reset, but nothing helped. I genuinely thought it was the phone so took it to my local app store twice. On the second visit they gave me a new phone. To my disappointment after playing two songs, the app crashed again and then when I click on my music app it crashes immediately without allowing me to click on a song.

Until Apple come up with a solution here is what I did. You can, as one user mentioned, go on iTunes and delete the playlist that is not working for you and create a new one and re-sync. Another option is when you click on the music app or the playlist that isn't working, you literally have a second to press the top left "Playlists" link that will take you back to your list of all Playlists. Create a new playlist with the songs that you want and that should solve your problem.

quote " have an iPhone 6 and my music app just crashes, not even giving me a chance to even play a song. But the best alternative I found is to ask our "assistant" Siri 😎 to play the smart playlist. But it will be a pain until the bug is fixed."

This sorted it out for me until I get home...

I have a similar problem. iOS 8.3, iPhone 5, 16GB.

The only way I have found to "reset" the problem is when you start the app again, immediately select the menu to move up one level. In my case, I move to one of the smart playlists and select a new song. The crashing behavior start is very erratic, but once it starts it is repeatable.