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The music player on my iPad iOS 8.1.2 has started crashing. After playing half a dozen songs or so the music player stops completely. This is very recent behaviour. Whether the music is downloaded or cloud does not make a difference. All music is in my iTunes account.
I have rebooted the machine (let the battery run down to force a restart) but that has not fixed the music player. How can I restore normal music player function?
They are referring to the "Purchased" under the "Quick Links" section on the right of the iTunes Store Home Page. Once you do this "Songs of Innocence" will be added to your "Purchased" playlist on the left.
Many users have reported this problem with syncing music on iOS 8. The following steps can be taken to Sync the music back onto your iPhone.
• Uncheck “sync music” in iTunes
• Delete Music (General > Usage > Manage Storage)
• Re-check “sync music”
• Sync
I did this and also had to make sure, under the Summary tab in iTunes that "Sync only checked songs & videos" AND "Manually manage music & videos" were checked. ONLY then did it sync successfully.
Best Answer
You might need to isolate the problem further.
If that crashes, restore your device. If not, you can restore the backup and continue isolating things that will cause the crash. There's no update for iTunes, but perhaps you just need to wait for iOS 8.2 to arrive if it's not anything you are causing. The fact that multiple songs cause a crash means it's more likely about the database file storing the playlists and not just a bad song or two. Your comment about it happening with music that once played fine also points to settings and metadata and not the songs themselves.