Music App Stops Playing

I'm having an issue with the music app on my Iphone 5 (version 7.0.4) and my brand new Ipad mini (not sure what version). It plays the first few songs fine and then randomly stops, the play button is still an arrow (it's not paused, my head phones haven't come unplugged). The progress bar (thing that shows how much time is left on a song) stops moving as well. I can skip to the next song but it won't start playing either. Even when the music does play, sometimes my Ipad states that its playing the song I've selected but it is actually playing another song... If I restart either device, the app will work for a few minutes and start doing the same thing again. The first time my phone did this, I looked at all the obvious fixes (such as headphones, pausing, low battery, etc.) and couldn't come up with a solution so I unplugged my headphones and went to bed and about 10 minutes later was woken up by my music playing right where it left off. I have no idea why this is happening as I've had my phone for almost two years now, I haven't done any updates for 6 months or so and my Ipad is brand new, I literally bought it last week (really regretting now buying that store warranty). Anyone have any suggestions?

It's back!!!!!! The problem went away for a few days now same issue. It only happens when I am listening to sound files on the headphones - sudden pause then restart in the middle of playing the sound file, this happens with different music/podcase apps. No issue with bluetooth streaming or speaker phone. So it appears there is a software bug with Lollipop update - never had this problem with KitKat. Factory reset does not fix it. I wish there was a way to revert the phone back to KitKat. Hoping the new Lollipop update would fix this.

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Pete Nershi wrote:
I was forced to update my phone from the 5.0 software to the 7 iOS software because most of my applications would no longer take updates. Now when I play my music applications every time my phone locks my music apps stop playing. I have researched this and it appears there is no way around it. The only thing that helps (not much) is extending the lock screen time to 5 minutes. Most of my phone use (other than text and talk) is streaming music and now it is a total pain due to this limiting feature. Did they do this to try to force customers to pay for music on I-Tunes? Does Apple have plans to fix this or should I start shopping for a different brand smart phone?
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There is no Apple in this user to user forum.
Not sure why people keep talking about changing to a different brand, - we users don't care if you stay or go away from Apple.
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If you're using a 3rd party app - then talk to the app developer or look at their support site.

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