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Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 11, 2009 2:46 PM
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I hate it that Apple has not made a universal setting that lets people mute application sounds. When I get really immersed in a game, I can play the same thing for hours at a time, and I'd like my music to be on top of that. I know some newer apps are touting features that "let you play your own music library" but not all apps offer this. The workaround was to double-tap the home button to get the music player opening within the app. This effectively died with v3.1, apparently, since it's not working for me anymore.
So here's the question: is there another workaround that will let me play the tunes I want instead of listening to the same 1 minute segment of some game music for 4 hours straight? You have no idea how annoying that is.
Any ideas? And does anyone know why Apple removed this? Bug, maybe?
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 12, 2009 6:14 PM
in response to: tamarw
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Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Can you help?
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 12, 2009 6:38 PM
in response to: tamarw
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I am having the same problem and youre right it is extremely annoying. I have found a small way around it. When you click the app to open it immediatly double tap the home key to bring up the player (Note: you need to already have music playing). Then wait for the app to shut off your music while keeping the player open. When the app shuts it off, the pause symbol will change. Simply press it again and your music will come back on. After that you can change your music as normally but if you pause it and close the player, you will have to completely exit the app in order to get your music back on.
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 12, 2009 6:55 PM
in response to: Ziggy1251
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Thanks. Sometimes some games override the mini player several times throughout the game, so this is a good option at least for the time being but I'm not sure it's the best option. If anything, there should be an option the Apple has in the "Settings" panel to override app/game music. Maybe we should tell Apple our thoughts via these forms:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Actually, I'd recommend that for sure. The more people who do it, the more Apple sees it as a priority. It is extremely upsetting that Apple does not value users' music since the very first generation iPod was a music player and not an app player, and I now see it as a music player primarily with apps secondarily. I believe that Apple doesn't see that, and if people tell them that's what it is, maybe they'll listen.
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 13, 2009 9:01 PM
in response to: tamarw
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I'm bumping this up just to see if anyone has any brighter ideas. I'd love to have more control over the mini-player. Is that possible or not?
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround
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Sep 13, 2009 10:28 PM
in response to: tamarw
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I am having the same thing happen to me. i like to drive and be able to double tap the home button and change songs on the fly and turn the volume up and down, there is no volume bar now
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround
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Sep 13, 2009 11:06 PM
in response to: UMPx
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This has been discussed in a few other threads, so far the best other workaround is to put the ipod to sleep with your non-music app open, then use double click to start your music in sleep mode, then when you slide to unlock your original app should still be running.
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround
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Sep 14, 2009 6:24 AM
in response to: Sam11
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Sorry Sam11 - I haven't heard that one yet and am not sure what you mean... can you explain?
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround
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Sep 14, 2009 12:59 PM
in response to: Sam11
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Sam, if I understand what you're saying, it doesn't work for me.
Here's what I did:
I turned on my music. I opened an App. I left the app sitting idly and waited for my iPod to go into "sleep" mode. I double clicked on the home button, turned the iPod back on (slide), returned to my App, and then double clicked again to access the mini-player.
Is this process incorrect?
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround
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Sep 14, 2009 1:57 PM
in response to: tamarw
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What hes saying to do is:
1. Turn your music on.
2. Enter an app that might shut off your music.
3. Press the sleep button to turn the screen off.
4. Turn the screen back on.
5. Without sliding the bar to unlock the iPod, double tap the home key to bring up a music player.
6. Turn the music back on or change your song.
7. Unlock the iPod and your music should still be playing in the app.
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 14, 2009 2:22 PM
in response to: tamarw
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Does the option to change the "Double-click the Home Button for: Home, Search, or iPod" not make this happen? I may be completely not understanding the issue since I haven't had a need for it yet, but if you set it to iPod would it do what you're asking?
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 14, 2009 2:47 PM
in response to: KaeBFly
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No, changing your settings for "double-click the home button" doesn't affect the way double-clicking works when the ipod is showing the "slide to unlock" screen.
I've been playing with the workaround (thanks for detailing it Ziggy1251) and found it doesn't work with some of my third party apps, but does with mail, safari, etc.
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 14, 2009 2:53 PM
in response to: Sam11
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I had this problem as well, but changing what the double click int he prefs on your itouch DOES fix it, I know it did for me.....
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround
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Sep 14, 2009 3:06 PM
in response to: Ziggy1251
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I want to say that works, Ziggy, but I get stuck on this part:
5. Without sliding the bar to unlock the iPod, double tap the home key to bring up a music player.
When I double tap here, I get nothing. I still am forced to see the slide to unlock.
Maybe, like Sam said, I'm running an app that won't let it happen.
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Re: Double-tap home button to get music in apps - gone in v3.1 - workaround?
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Sep 14, 2009 3:10 PM
in response to: KaeBFly
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KaeBFly: no.
Using versions PRIOR to 3.1.1, if you are running an app, you previously were able to double click on the home button and the mini player would come up, regardless of your iPod settings.
The 3.1.1 upgrade broke this entirely. Make sure you're using 3.1.1 and run a few apps - you'll see that double tapping on them won't bring up the mini-player. This forces you to listen to app music instead of your own library.
It's really sad for Apple when actual application developers advertise the ability to "use your own music library" as one of the "features" of the app. Why Apple couldn't give us these controls is beyond me.
And Da BomB: try to run more aggressive apps with music. I have a Touch 1G and 2G and I can't get it working at all.
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