Music app: why icon spinning (wait/think) on playing music.

Music app, top bar next to wifi logo is spinning (wait/think) icon- while playing music. This has only started since I upgraded to IOS 7: what is it looking for?

local music or music frrom a shared lib?
or music from some other source?

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Music app: why icon spinning (wait/think) on playing music.

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