Music application for iPhone 14 Plus stops playing music after 1-2 songs

New data point: if I go to a playlist and push Play instead of Shuffle, it plays the songs fine without stopping.

So Shuffle seems to be the culprit.

Any ideas why?

Okay, here is some more information after I’ve done further testing.

I noticed that some of my playlists shuffled fine and others did not, so I tired figuring out the differences.

My main playlist has 5,000 songs. It’s a Smart Playlist with 2 rules. One is that a certain word must appear in the Comments field and the other is Last Played is not in the last 12 months. When I try to Shuffle this playlist, it says “Loading…” for a few second, then it plays the first song. When the second song starts playing, the Music interface freezes after 4 or 5 seconds — the song timer stops and none of the buttons work. However, the song continues to play for another 30 seconds or so. Then the Music app crashes and closes.

I have another playlist that is the same except it doesn’t have the Last Played rule. It has 17,000 songs. When I shuffle that one, it works fine.

So I edited the second playlist and added the Last Played rule. When I updated it onto my iPhone and shuffled it, it had the same crashing behavior as the first playlist.

However, I have another playlist that had a rule of Last Played is not in the last 3 months (with some other Comments-related rules), but that one does Shuffle fine. Although, it only has 600 songs.

So I don’t know if it’s the combo of using a Last Played rule on a large playlist?

Anyway, might be a bug. It would be interesting if someone could try to recreate this. If you have a large playlist and try to add a “Last Played is not in the last 12 months” rule, and then try to shuffle it on an iPhone 14, I’d be interested to know if it’s just my phone or not.

I’m not sure what you mean. My music is in the Music app — I don’t think there’s a way to view the individual files is there?