Music streaming slow for anyone else?

hm, works very well tonight for change, the buffering is very fast.

If only it worked like this all the time, I'd really love the service...

I have seen this issue, generally either a very slow start to the first song in an album/playlist or more often when trying to skip several songs. But it happens so infrequently (on my iPhone 6, iPad Mini 2 and iMac) that i just shrug it off as a momentary glitch. If it happened as often as it seems to be with some people, then I might be more upset.

This is awfully painful. Choppy, slow to load, not buffering appropriately. And to think I was complaining that Apple Music wasn't offering high def streaming / downloads. It appears it can't even handle these compressed files!

Of course it works in Germany,, all the best people are there 🙂

So, i've done a clean install of El Capitan 10.11.1, and *not* upgraded iTunes.

by default, u get version 12.2.2, (which for some reason doesn't seem right. for 10.11..) i honestly thought it be at least version 13.1

In any case, been using Apple music fine and no slow downs at all ..... no choppy, nor attempted to playing other things.. It just work as expected.. so i can also assume any older version of itunes works fine too... just as long as u *don't* upgrade to 12.3.1

So, from my stand-point its iTunes issue. However its not not smooth sailing.. I still get the "Your subscription has expired." and a sign out and back in temporary fixes this.

Got back with a senior adviser with ticket escalated to engineers, and they told me they are aware that there are problems with Apple music, and fixing them with servers in the next releases of iOS and iTunes. (album art too).. Not sure if that would be next updates, but at least we know these will be coming.

Too bad Apple doesn't t read these forums otherwise they would have know all this 😀 oh well..

Unfortunately, u can't do this with iOS.

ANyone wanting to (re)download 12.2.2 - https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/itunes12/031-31872-20150813-B2459290-41B7-11E5 -A64D-900D11BA098F/iTunes12.2.2.dmg

great that they are aware of it. Well, how could they not? Too bad their helpdesk is not aware of the problems, or is instructed not acknowledge the issues. If they want us to stick with Apple Music, they should at least give a free extension for the paying customers. That would help a lot in taking away our frustrations.

After a miserable Saturday Apple Music has not missed a beat for 3 days, it even sound better or maybe that is just the relieve that it's working ok now.

Why can't Apple admit when there is a fault rather than wind customers up and loose their business ? Most of us will be patient for a while if we know a fix is imminent !

Worked fine with me as well today. Played some songs in my car: always tricky to use Music from the car controls, but it worked great and songs streamed perfectly over 4G. They even played instantaneous without any delay when skipping songs.

Better playback here for last couple of days. Reluctant to say it's fixed, but hopeful. Feel same as other posters, in that Apple would have done well to acknowledge a problem and keep people informed.

Streaming very slow at times, songs interrupted, skipped, long pauses. Internet working perfect for everything else. Apple sided problem clearly, however no acknowledgment from their side isn't confidence inspiring. Showing a bright green light on their system status page for Apple Music...hmm.

Apple Music is borderline unusable for me in Germany for the last couple of days! Songs take a couple of minutes to start (if ever) and then continuously stop for buffering, extremely annoying. My internet connection is fine though, so it is something wrong with Apple's servers. If they don't fix it within a couple of days (or at least acknowledge the problem), it's back to Spotify I guess...

@eschr

Where in Germany are you? I am in Heidelberg and had the same problems about 10 days ago. Since then, it works flawlessly for me. If I click on a song, starting time is always under 3 seconds and the whole song loads within 5-7 seconds.

So, there is hope😉

I too am noticing an improvement, but still having some problems. Late last night, again, a track would not stream. I am currently subscribing to both Apple Music and Spotify, and I had to switch to Spotify to hear the track I wanted. My suggestion to Apple would be: Carefully analyze everything that is good about Spotify on both iOS and OS X, and then match Spotify in every way both as to performance and as to usability. I think that Apple Music's interface is decidedly better than Spotify's, IF the performance issues can be fixed, if not, Apple is going to have a hard time getting Apple Music to grow. Another problem I have on iOS, that is not related specifically to streaming speed, is that it is hard to tell for sure whether a track is downloaded for offline use or not. Spotify makes this very clear, and Apple Music makes you deduce it by looking at the drop down menu, except that an indicator icon does appear for individually downloaded tracks and for your own music from your iTunes collection. Apple is capable of fixing all these issues quickly and they need to do it.

I refused the service the day it appeared, haven't had any nags since then.

Make sure to use iTunes version 12.2.2.25 and watch all your problems go away. I had days and days of problems, until I rolled back to a previous version of iTunes. The latest version is a mess and is causing these lagging problems, and issues with songs pausing. Since rolling back, I have been listening many, many hours a day, at all times of the day, and not had a single hiccup.