Music App ruined by updating to ios 8.4

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I can't find some of my music.

I don't have genre, album or artist info for some of my songs--but I can't see them listed under artists or albums. Is it so hard to just put these under "unknown" in the listings? Why do compilations have to have their own category? Why can't I just delete categories if I don't use them? Why if you have an album that is just listed under "Albums" and only that? Can't these be cross-reference in the other categories?

Why can't I repeat songs on my phone? I want to hit one button that says "repeat song" and then does.

Most of all--Books won't play audiobooks. Audiobooks don't show up in iTunes so that they can be played. WHHHHYYYYYYY!!!!

ANYONE HAVE A FIX FOR THE LAST ONE? I'm about to go on a trip AND I WOULD LIKE TO LISTEN TO SOME OF MY **** AUDIOBOOKS!!!

Repeat works fine for me.

I believe audiobooks were moved to iBooks.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

I believe audiobooks were moved to iBooks.

Yep

Yes, they have made this app complete crap. Also you need to be in Wifi or data to load your music. If you are out of range it will not access your music. ***???? So bummed. Thats why I put music on my phone so I have when I can not use streaming services.

Yes, you do have to download tracks to the device in order to listen to them while off line. Just as you would for Spotify, Pandora or any other online music service (including iOS before this update). How in the world do you expect to access something on the internet if you are not connected to internet?

No it my purchased music that is on my computer and I put on my phone that should not need internet access to play, like it use to be. Basically the app doesn't really work without internet access.

Yes it does, you can add tracks to the My Music section to listen to off line, or sync with iTunes to add music.

http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iphbddea0e5e

http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iph3c796484

Way agreeing with this post. My initial frustrations were purely to do with the change in layout and addition of all the apple music crap in the interface that I don't care anything about. I shouldn't have to select that I want to search within my library rather than on apple music. That should be a separate app and the music player should be only and exactly that. Im also seconding the thing about having to have service. This past weekend I was in an area with limited reception and each time I launched the music app, my library nor anything else ever loaded, no buttons were responsive and I had to swipe close the app. I finally found that if I launched the music app with airplane mode on it would quickly load my library and nothing else. This is all way too complicated vs. the previous versions of the player. For what it's worth I don't want or use spotify or any other streaming music services. In searching for others with issues like mine and other folks here.... I did come across someone mentioning an app/player called ecoute. It's set up very similar to the previous version of the music app on the iPad. It's 99 cents and despite being skeptical, within 30 seconds of playing with it I dumped apple music into my apple bloatware folder with stocks etc and put ecoute in its place. Problem solved. I'm not holding my breath for them (apple) to fix this, so ecoute it is!

I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one. I don't care about streaming, and I don't need my music player to advertise to me. I don't need my music player to require a cellular data plan, or a wifi connection. I need my music player to simply play, shuffle and repeat my music. PERIOD.

I find this whole disaster only more frustrating when my former music player suggests what else I might like... I'd like to shuffle my music. I'd like to skip to the next song without having to pull over and figure out where my **** music went. I might also like the ability to not have a bunch of irrelevant and insane suggestions advertised to me. And most importantly, I'd like to NOT have to get on the net to figure out how to use MY MUSIC PLAYER! Having first developed the worlds greatest music player, I'm utterly unable to comprehend the schizophrenic thinking that sees turning it into a complicated, pocket-sized, networked advertising device as desirable. Unfortunately I have to agree, the music app is unusable as a music app.

Works fine for me but as the old saying goes, you can't please everyone. Use the feedback link already provided to tell Apple and you can look for a 3rd party app to replace Apple's music app. Or buy an iPod Nano.