Music app crashes with IOS 8.3 after playing two songs

I as well -- iPhone 6+, 64GB, iOS8.3

The problem appeared to go away after I 'waited long enough'...I can at least view the playlist again, without music immediately crashing. I haven't tried playing from it again

I just moved everything just play list and give up on a smart list. I hope they fix it soon.

I'm having the same problem.

After upgrade to iOS 8.3, the "App Music" closes subtly while playing music.
I've restored to factory settings iOS and nothing resolved.
I created a video demonstrating the error: http://bit.ly/1KPDbFq
iphone 5 16GB with iOS 8.3

I can now maybe play 2 songs from my Recently Added playlist before the whole Music App just crashes and returns me to the iOS Home Screen. I wish I hadn't updated now, that's the only playlist I really use all the time.

Has anyone tried restoring their phone?

Please fix this Apple!!

iOS 8.3 iPhone 5s 32GB

Having the same issue: After updating to IOS 8.3 my iPhone 6 plus; when playing any playlist the music app crashes after the second song. Also, skipping songs in playlist will cause a crash. Restored to backup: did not work. Restored to factory settings: did not work. Deleted all backups and started anew: did not work. Called Apple support with problem: they suggested all of the solutions I had tried that did not work then suggested it was a hardware problem. Made appointment with Genius Bar: exchanged for brand new iPhone 6 plus: did not work.

As with most everyone else with this problem I can shuffle through "artists" or "albums" or "songs" but not playlists. Have not tried checking or unchecking "limits" in playlists.

Please fix this Apple.

I've had this problem for a while too - since upgrading to iOS 8.3 on my iPhone 6 - it was ok on iOS 8.2.

I have quite a lot of music, quite a few smart playlists. I have iTunes Match and don't have the music stored on my iPhone.

It seems to only affect my Smart Playlists, and then not all of them - just the more complex ones (of mine at least), maybe just the ones that need to update the list of tracks after every play, though I haven't proven that theory yet....

Unchecking 'limit to' helped so it didn't fail so often, but didn't fix it completely...

I've just been on a long chat session with Apple support and the guy has replicated it on his device and we've got diagnostics off of both our devices, so hopefully they can fix this one soon.....

I have stumbled onto the cause of the problem and the solution to Smart Playlists causing iPhone etc to crash. Where it has Limit to XX items selected by XXX, DO NOT CHOOSE RANDOM. Choose highest rating or most often played instead and try it out. Since I have discovered this I have created many Smart Playlists that work successfully with iTunes Match and my iPhone and iPad never crash. You can create a pretty sophisticated nested Smart Playlist and as long as you choose one of the options other than RANDOM you are golden. Hope this helps many frustrated folks out there.

Thanks for the post but this made no difference to mine - if fact I couldn't even play 1 song before it crashes now

Did anyone find a solution to this issue? I've been living with it for months. I've rebuilt the smart playlists. Hard restarted the phone. Even quit the phone and restored it completely. Two of my smart playlists based on rating are still quitting after two songs. Other smart playlists are working.

Never mind. Changing from "random" to a different method of selection worked. Not only that, but it finally got rid of my my phantom 4gb of "other" that was taking up space on my phone. Thanks to the forum.

I have deleted all my smart playlists and created a new one which works fine and hasn't crashed once.

Tick in Match all of the following rules

Media Kind is Music

Plays is 0

Genre is not "Christmas" (I have a list of Christmas songs for the kids 🙂)

Genre is not "no iPod" (I have songs which I don't want on my iPhone ever)

Tick in Limit to 2000 items selected by lowest rating

Match only ticked items IS NOT ticked

Live updating is ticked

Hope this helps.

Another solution I've seen to this is to have a smart playlist pull the song selection from another playlist. In my case, it's another smart playlist. The playlist that pulls from the other can be set to select a random number of items, and the crashing does not occur.

My particular use scenario is I have a playlist that has all songs of a certain rating from different genres that I enjoy listening together, and then a second smart playlist that pulls 100 songs from the first playlist as long as they have not been played in the last 2 weeks. Only the second playlist is synced to my phone. This means that when I play a song, the smart playlist does not update on my phone, and any played songs stay on the playlist until I sync it at home, which then it funnels through the playlists correctly and updates what songs are on my phone.

So the issue seems to be with random selection on a smart playlist that can actually update. This and some other selections in the thread are workarounds, but hopefully Apple fixes this in 8.4.

I can confirm that after updating to IOS 8.4 the problem has gone away!!

Much better all around - Podcast app also doesn't crash! Finally a good update!

Problem still occurs on iOS 8.4. After creating a normal playlist from the automatically created one the crashes were gone.