Music streaming slow for anyone else?

I'm having a horrible time with streaming and downloading, and it's only with iTunes. I have the current upgrade as well, and it seems to be terrible, as of yesterday. I don't remember having these problems even the day before! I've called Apple Tech help AND ATT Uverse tech. My connection is fine (Netflix, YouTube, etc. all work great), and the Apple Tech couldn't figure this out either. It's impossible to sample a song that rebutters every second (not exaggerating) and to download a 5mb song took 20 mins. This is ridiculous. Anyone find a cure for this yet?

Yep, same thing here. It's so laggy that it makes listening to music more a stressful than a pleasurable experience. Hate to say it cuz I really wanted to like Apple Music better, but Spotify keeps working flawlessly under this point of view.

Reading all the posts here I would agree.

Has anyone tried checking this with Apple Support?

I sent a few feedbacks, but I never got a reply in the past, don't see why I should now.

Furthermore, I'm downloading iOS 9 atm and the download speed is an average of 400KB/s, which is way lower than I've ever experienced with Apple servers. I believe they're having some kind of bandwidth overload and can't keep up.

zurdyoz wrote:

I sent a few feedbacks, but I never got a reply in the past, don't see why I should now.

Furthermore, I'm downloading iOS 9 atm and the download speed is an average of 400KB/s, which is way lower than I've ever experienced with Apple servers. I believe they're having some kind of bandwidth overload and can't keep up.

(1) Apple does not reply to "feedback". They do read all the comments, but do not reply directly to the person who made the feedback.

(2) Yes, Apple's servers - not just for Apple Music but for general updates (like iOS 9 and the new Mac version of iTunes) have been slower than normal lately. Guess everyone is trying to get their new software/updates as soon as possible after release. I know that when I went to update iTunes on my two iMacs it took noticeably longer than it usually did.

It'd be nice that they focus on the servers a bit more now - almost the same playlist plays without issues for me on YouTube and Gaana.com (India).

Taking a leaf out of Facebook's rise to fame, servers is what made them popular. With Apple it seems to be the reverse!

I am having the same issue, sometimes it works ok, others its slower than a slow thing being slow. Even downloading music is painfully slow. Am on superfast fibre.

I am getting stopping for buffering and just plain stopping of music streams on my Retina MacBookPro (El Capitan) and Mac Mini (Yosemite), with a 22mb/s VDSL/2 connection and 802.11ac dual band wireless and nobody else on the network. I don't get the problem on other streaming channels/stations, so I am guessing it is Apple with inadequate bandwidth. If this is the case, at their high monthly charges, it is just not good enough. After about 4 or 5 stops and having to be restarted manually, it seems to settle down and the stops are far less frequent.

Same here, the streaming speed can't keep up with the song. It keep pausing the song every 2 seconds, this happen mainly with radio stations or playlists. My internet connection is working perfectly, youtube, spotify,... everything works fine, apple music is NOT. Why paying for a service that doesn't work? I keep asking myself. I'm tempted to record a video showing how bad the streaming is.

Exactly the same problem on all mac, ipad and iphone. I already check my internet speed for everything else, including netflix and other high-demand bandwidth tasks. The problem is with Apple. Very frustrating!

Its been very slow today. Spotify, Youtube all working fine. Only Apple Music is pathetically slow, 2 seconds of audio and 2 seconds of buffering. So far the experience with apple music has been not so good.

I'm just wondering what bit rate Apple Muisc plays at and whether there are any settings to change that. I've not found any so far. My guess is that could be an issue.

100% the same problem. It started of well but last few days performance is very poor. Nothing to do with connection must be on Apple side. Spotify does not give this problem at all. Will most likely not convert my trial membership into a real one, better of with Spotify.

My PC has the problem too even update iTunes to be latest. I tested by iPhone with Wi-Fi(the same network as PC) by disable cellular, it worked. It must be the problem of Apple.

SStalls on me when in car playing radio.