Stuttering in the Music App

[Vlad Soare]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with iOS 14, but I've only started noticing it very recently, without having changed anything, so the update to 14.0.1 seems like the only likely suspect.
While listening to music from the Music app via bluetooth, from time to time there's a very slight, barely noticeable stutter. Well, stutter may not be the right word, but I'm struggling to find a better one. It's like it skips a quarter of a second or so. As if from the word, say, 'apprentice' you would only hear 'apprence'.
It happens both with my AirPods and with my car's infotainment system, which indicates that the problem lies with the phone, not with the connected device. And it isn't a network issue, because it also happens with songs which are stored on the phone.

Has any of you noticed this?

Thank you.

 

[Prof.]

I experience this when I’m listening to music and open a new app. The music stops for about a second and then starts up again once that new app fully opens up. This happens every. single. time.

 

[EM2013]

Has been happening to me since 13.

Amazon app always triggers it for me.

 

[Vlad Soare]

What I experience is not that long, it's much shorter than a second. Unless you happen to know that particular song it could even go unnoticed. And it has nothing to do with opening apps; the phone is in my pocket and does nothing else apart from playing music.

 

[Expos of 1969]

Whatever the reason it is not good for a paid for service.

 

[Vlad Soare]

True, but I'm not sure it's the service that's faulty, because it does the same with songs which are stored locally on the phone. It must be either the app or iOS.
Or, if no one else is experiencing this, then it's something else on my phone, though I don't see what that could be.

 

[Helmsley]

Thankfully I haven't experienced any issues at all with Apple Music.

Only thing I don't like is shuffle seems to pick the same songs in a library of over 100 songs.

 

[vvapple]

Having that problem since iOS14 on my Xs.