My music sometimes plays for a few seconds and and then skips to the next song. Is anyone else having that issue?

Does yours skip in a certain view? Mine seems to have the problem only when I'm using the mini player or whatever they call it, like this:

sorry if that's gigantic, LOL.

Anyway, if I have it in the standard or traditional view it doesn't skip...

It definitely sounds like your connection and I can explain why:

The playing a couple of seconds before skipping is commonplace when:

1. The music isn't set to 'Available Offline' and there's little to no internet connection
2. Your Apple Music subscription is no longer valid

If when listening to the music you experience stoppage or stuttering, this would definitely suggest a bad connection.

Now although you believe your connection is good and I'm sure it is, the strength of the signal can vary. Try using Apple Music whilst connected to your Wi-Fi and in the same room as the router, I'm sure you will see fantastic results.

I, personally, have the same trouble as you and it's because there are many walls between my room and the router which reduce the signal strength.

The overall solutions would be: get a Wi-Fi repeater in your room to increase signal strength or set all your music to 'Available Offline' and sit near to your router while it downloads all the songs and then you should have no issues.

Hope this helps!

I get this daily. The tracks I get it on are those that are stored locally on my MacBook and have been uploaded to the Music iCloud Library. Although with mine, they don't even start playing - I just see the cover art and details for a couple of seconds and then it skips on to the next track.

I know he stated that but you have to consider that maybe one doesn't realise connectivity can be affected by distance and objects between them and the router. What's different about the songs which skip in comparison to the ones which do not? Do you have them all set as offline or are these ones not downloaded?

Everything that was in my 'old' iTunes library has been added to iCloud Music Library. Tracks that I add from Music.app etc also reside in this same library.

Having had a number (a ridiculous amount) of mismatch issues, I recently cleared down the whole library, re-added my locally stored tracks and then re-enabled iCloud Music Library .... still the same issues with mismatching skipping etc.

While this is a work-around which 'might' work, it's not practical. The issue doesn't affect all tracks, so I would need to constantly monitor my iPhone for tracks skipping, make a note of them and then manually look them up on my device(s) and set them to 'available online'. This also eats in to my local device storage - which kind of defeats the point of iCloud Music Library.

Again, while it's a work-around to get those tracks which skip to play, it doesn't address the root cause which is an issue with uploads from iTunes libraries to iCloud Music Library.

Well you can select to have all your music as 'Available Offline' so it's only when you add new music that you'd have to reselect that feature. Any uploading issue is something we can't really help with because that's either Apple's servers or your internet.

Yes, and that was the point of posting about the issue - so it's apparent to Apple that there's an issue with their service. I wasn't looking for a solution per se, as I know it's an issue at Apple's end.

It's not a connection issue in my case. It's an iCloud Music Library upload issue. The OP has also already stated that he doesn't have any connectivity issues.

None of my tracks are set to offline. The only ones I get issues with are those that have been uploaded to iCloud Music Library.

Ah I understand, that info is helpful! Is your iCloud Music Library mixed with your old music library?

Is it the songs that were imported from your iTunes library that are skipping? Or vice versa?

The tracks skipping are those that are locally stored on my MacBook and in my iTunes library (uploaded to iCloud Music Library).

Ah I see. I'd highly recommend setting them as available offline.