music won't ploy via Verizon data

artdoc wrote:

My iPhone is set to use cellular data to play my Match music (but using WiFi as first choice!) Yesterday my cable connection dropped off for a few hours and I could not get any music with my phone. I have also had music fail when in my car out of wi-fi range. Is this a Verizon thing? or is it a failure of my phone setting? I am using the lasted iOS.

No, it's not a Verizon thing. I stream about 15-20 gigs worth of music a month on Verizon. I do live in a city where Verizon has very good coverage.

I don't have any great ideas about what your problem is. Start with the basics: restart, reset, reset network settings, restore from backup, restore as new.

Best of luck.

I've noticed this, too (I'm also on Verizon; the bf is on ATT and doesn't seem to experience this issue...)

I think that it has something to do with uploaded tracks vs. matched tracks and how the software handles retrieving the data. What I think is happening is that your data connection can get caught up trying to contact Apple servers to download/stream "uploaded" (non-matched) tracks: when a track doesn't immediately begin playing, if you've noticed, the software generally skips ahead to a song that WILL stream. I have found that after a while, music stops loading altogether and that I have to force-restart the phone (home+lock button). When it boots back up, I get notifications that "xyz song + x number of others" were not able to be downloaded.

Just an idea - I have no technical knowledge of how Apple has actually coded the service. I don't think it relates entirely to signal strength, though, because often times I find my phone streaming reliably on 1x data, but when I have 3-4 bars of LTE the streaming stutters.

Hopefully the 8.4.1 update helps with this problem