IPad and iPhone freeze When Trying To Access Music Player Via IP Address.

What the problem was I couldn't say, but I have managed to overcome, rather than solve the issue.

I dug out another small external HD, formatted it FAT32, and transferred a handful of music files over. After updating the Pi's library, it then played just fine.I then copied all the music files to my big HD, reformatted my original SSD drive, then transferred all the files back. Bingo! It now works just fine. I can only think there was something corrupted on the ssd.

'm now back home, plugged the Pi in, set the wireless to a different router, same problem! My home Mac Mini works fine, so does my Macbook here, so does my Lenovo pad. iPad & iPhone don't. Now I know the iPad was working fine with this a few weeks ago because I'd set up a new HAT Hi-FiBerry Digi 2 Pro on the Pi5 here, using iPad on the wireless connection. This really doesn't make any sense to me.

If I run MoOde on, say, the Macbook, select a music file & play, Moode appears on the iPad with the album artwork appearing in the background. It lets me click on the USB music folder, then if I click again to access the album files, there's a delay of about five seconds (not when I'm using the other means) but then the whole lot freezes & I can't select anything. However, interestingly, it lets me select configure, and move between the various settings, select library etc., it just freezes when I'm trying to select the music files.

Thanks for your help. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can from my non-technical, older chap's knowledge.

I access my Moode player on the Pi via the Safari web browser (there's no dedicated app.) either with “ Moode.local” or using the I.P. Address I'd fixed in the BT router. I've tried using other browsers, Firefox, Google etc. with the same result. The frustrating thing is that, up until this week, the setup's worked perfectly for a year or so, using exactly the same hardware & everything else. My wife's Google phone, my Macbook, and the glacially-slow and ancient Acer pad thing also all work fine, although the latter's impractical to use.

The only difference can identify is the recent operating system update, but I've no idea why this should be an issue.

I'm now back home, plugged the Pi in, set the wireless to a different router, same problem! My home Mac Mini works fine, so does my Macbook here, so does my Lenovo pad. iPad & iPhone don't. Now I know the iPad was working fine with this a few weeks ago because I'd set up a new HAT Hi-FiBerry Digi 2 Pro on the Pi5 here, using iPad on the wireless connection. This really doesn't make any sense to me.

If I run MoOde on, say, the Macbook, select a music file & play, Moode appears on the iPad with the album artwork appearing in the background. It lets me click on the USB music folder, then if I click again to access the album files, there's a delay of about five seconds (not when I'm using the other means) but then the whole lot freezes & I can't select anything. However, interestingly, it lets me select configure, and move between the various settings, select library etc., it just freezes when I'm trying to select the music files.

Many thanks for your continued help on this LotusPilot.

I've gone through all your suggestions, but none has an effect on the problem. No security, VPN, Private Address on or off, iCloud private relay set to off.

Since being home, we've tried my wife's two iPhones, her old iPad, & it's the same. Her works PC, my old Thinkpad PC, & her works Google phone all work just fine. This is definitely restricted to devices running Apple's iOS operating system., & it's something to do with accessing the SSD attached via USB to the Pi.

The Pi5 streams music attached to it via a USB SSD & SPDIF HAT into my hi-fi system, the iPad is just used to control.