My iPhone 4s music library is glitchy... skipping some songs, stops playing others... ideas?
Since upgrading to an iPhone 4s, I have noticed some strange behavior from my music player. Nearly every time I play music for more than 20-30 minutes, something will happen and a song will suddenly skip or just stop playing altogther. It is extremely weird. It will physically not allow me to back up to the song that skipped, or start it over.
This is not a permissions issue, everything is fine on that end. It is almost always when shuffling my music, although tonight when I noticed it happen to a particular song, I tried to play it buy selecting the exact song (and then album) and it would still not play. Tried it on my iTunes library on my MBP immediately after and it played just fine.
I have seen very old discussions about AAC format. Nearly 100% of my music is AAC (the particular song tonight is even one purchased from iTunes), and my library has never had any issues like this before, including my old iPhone 4 or any of the numerous iPods, iPads and computers that I've run.
Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?
Suggestions?
Ok, I have been here and found an answer....
Assuming you are steaming using Bluetooth and the problem only started after updating to IOS6.... ?
I stream to a good hifi system so my answer is only related if you are steaming to a Bluetooth adapter or a
Bluetooth enabled system
And also...
If you are using Bluetooth & ios6....+ here is an answer I got ...
Many producers of Bluetooth adapters etc.... Use bt2.1 and state compatible with bt4.
Trouble is, bt4 wasn't around at the time so they assumed compatibility.
Now.... From IOS6.... Apple upgraded to bt4, gives better Bluetooth connectivity so they are delivering added benefit.
A lot of older bt adapters have firmware bugs with bt4.
I contacted my supplier who wouldn't agree but threatened legal action if I was to publish...
Can't of ford the fight so... Sold my bt receiver on eBay and bought an apple airport express.
Problem solved and also, i got a better quality of music.
Remember you do need wifi to use the airport express but who hasn't got that these days ?
One last point...
if you are streaming to a decent hifi system and choose to do go down the airport express route
The mini adapter.... Headphone out socket on the airport express is also a mini toslink socket...
So, if you want to get the best from your music (limited by iTunes of course) you can use the toslink optical digital output .
Then you get into Dacs etc and start spending more n more...
Hope this helps
Tony
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