unbelievably disappointed

UPDATE: 9/30/2017, my music will NOT by any means play an entire song start to finish without freezing, stopping, and then crashing entirely. or just the first two anytime i attempt to open. ANY. application on my phone including the Google Play Music app itself. start a song, press home; stops music app freezes. re-opens app to play music again for 5th consecutive try, entire app freezes and crashes before it fully loads. let’s say i want to listen to Tom Petty and text my friend back, well as soon as i press play on any Tom Petty song, (NOTE: downloaded for offline use or not downloaded, still happens regardless) and then i press home and it manages to keep playing, well the second iMessage gets opened the entire phone starts glitching and music once again, stops for no reason, and then the app crashes entirely.

i really cant believe what im reading in just about ALL of these reviews of this app. its very clear the app has MAJOR issues that everyone is having i.e. I myself have even found my app crashing when downloading, taking extensive amounts of time to download and most significantly, my music freezes, pauses, skips, and all of the things of the sort regardless of downloaded albums/songs, and every single time the app is relaunched from multitasking, it stops my music and just about freezes and crashes attempting to load. this is very very unbelievably frustrating. id like to think the developers and so forth are reading these and attempting to fix these specific issues but i have high doubts considering the circumstances, app has only gotten worse through the updates.

Nate Mumford about Google Play Music, v3.35.1010