iOS 15.4 breaks 'gapless' playback in Apple Music

[rytyuk]

I installed 15.5 b1 about two hours ago on my iPhone 11 and gapless is working properly, and no hiccups mid-track any more either.

 

[drakula]

Would love an update to see if it works for you on 15.5 B1

 

[ian87w]

Yes I have this issue as well with 15.4.1 (I skipped 15.4). Extremely annoying, especially from Apple who were supposed to be particular about music. Really really hoping for a quick fix soon as I have a lot of non-stop mixes albums.

 

[ian87w]

I have to wonder if this is related to bandwidth. In other words, AM is streaming lower bitrates for CarPlay and Apple Watch, but higher resolution lossless otherwise, which may be creating a need for time to buffer playback between tracks.

This is affecting my own self-ripped tracks, which were working fine in 15.3. I don't think it has anything to do with the bitrates.

 

[ian87w]

Sadly this did not work for me (deleting and reinstalling Apple Music on my iPhone, and re-syncing my music library). There are still gaps between tracks when listening on my AirPods Pro.

However I have a USB-C headphone adapter with built-in DAC for my iPad, and if I use this with wired headphones, I can confirm that playback is gapless. But when I listen to the same tracks from my iPad using my AirPods, there are gaps between the tracks.

Therefore this problem appears to be happening only with Bluetooth connections.

Yup. It's affecting the tracks when I'm listening to them via bluetooth in my car. Wasn't an issue with 15.3.

 

[rytyuk]

Would love an update to see if it works for you on 15.5 B1

After many hours, AM is back to normal still - no annoying gaps on DJ sets and no random stopping for a few seconds mid-track. I'll never take gapless for granted again.... ?

 

[Telesmurfen]

I also experience the gap between songs - and it’s especially annoying when listening to live albums. It happens with downloaded music and streaming music and with lossless on or off.
Sometimes it will also skip a track or two.
Never had any of these problems before upgrading to 15.4 / 15.4.1
Hope it will be resolved soon.
Until then, Spotify works flawlessly.

 

[Demonic16]

Yes guys!!! iOS 15.5 Beta 1 completely fixes issue!

 

[jonny]

I too can confirm 15.5b1 resolving the issue. ?

 

[crookadile]

I too can confirm that 15.5b1 fixes the gapless issue. Listening to Pink Floyd PULSE as I type. No issues whatsoever.

 

[andrewd3]

The confirmations re iOS 15.5b1 fixing the bug all sound very promising. I can't risk installing the beta on my phone so hopefully when this gets officially released all will be well. How long is it likely to be before the official release? Are we likely to be talking weeks, or months?

 

[Apple_Robert]

I hope it gets released very soon. It is very annoying both on the phone and when handing off to the HomePod mini at night to sleep with and it constantly stops.

 

[Rod65]

Hi,
I now can also confirm music is playing gapless with 15.5 beta, like it was earlier.
And the second good thing is my accu last longer now, so this time a good update

 

[jonny]

Gapless continues to work under 15.5b1, however it has begun skipping tracks again. ?

 

[Rod65]

What do you mean by skipping tracks, please? On my IPhone 12 Pro playback is complete correct

 

[jonny]

What do you mean by skipping tracks, please? On my IPhone 12 Pro playback is complete correct

I mean it will randomly skip a track in an album.

 

[crookadile]

Never had that problem. My albums play without skipping.

 

[Rod65]

Me too, playback is gapless without skipping tracks

 

[dexster]

Not gapless and also skipping tracks for me. Strangely, it always seems to be after track 2 on various albums and it skips to track 4.

 

[entropi]

my Apple music has suddenly fixed itself, after four weeks of refusal to find the media library on my units. no updates were required - now it finds the media library on all my units and I can finally back up my units again!!! (cloudy random stuff, this...)

 

[drakula]

Has anyone tried the new beta 2 of 15.5 and can report whether gapless continues to be fixed in this release?

 

[JCCL]

Has anyone tried the new beta 2 of 15.5 and can report whether gapless continues to be fixed in this release?

I have the latest beta. I’m in the 6th song of a live album, no issues with the transitions so far. Still working right.

 

[andrewd3]

Currently downloading iOS15.5. Let's hope it does, in fact, fix the gapless playback issue...

 

[Loge]

Looks like it has fixed the gapless playback bug, having been using it for a while tonight.

 

[adam01212]

Has anyone else tried the final release of iOS 15.5? I’m still on 15.4.1 and wondering if it worth updating to fix the Bluetooth pausing between songs bug (usually apple breaks something with updates so I don’t like to jump straight in as soon as it’s released)