ipad music player crash The music player on my iPad iOS 8.1.2 has started crashing. After playing half a dozen songs or so the music player stops completely. This is very recent behaviour. Whether the music is downloaded or cloud does not make a difference. All music is in my iTunes account. 

I have rebooted the machine (let the battery run down to force a restart) but that has not fixed the music player. How can I restore normal music player function?
You might need to isolate the problem further.


Syncing with iTunes will rebuild the iTunes database files and potentially correct artwork problems.
playing new content might show that the existing content is in some way corrupt.
backing up the device and erasing all content and settings might be a more drastic step to get a clean song or two.


If that crashes, restore your device. If not, you can restore the backup and continue isolating things that will cause the crash. There's no update for iTunes, but perhaps you just need to wait for iOS 8.2 to arrive if it's not anything you are causing. The fact that multiple songs cause a crash means it's more likely about the database file storing the playlists and not just a bad song or two. Your comment about it happening with music that once played fine also points to settings and metadata and not the songs themselves.