ipod Touch restarts 'now playing' when turned off?

I use to be a 2nd gen ipod nano user and I just play my songs from the song list (not artist, album, genre etc.). Every time I turn it off and turn it back on, it shows the last song I listened to and the position I'm at (For example, 123 of 400).

Now that I switched over to an ipod Touch, every time I turn it off and turn it back on, it can't remember what song I last listened to and restarts my playlist position (For example, I'm at song 56 of 300 and when I restart it, it goes back to 1 of 300)

This is very frustrating to me. Is there a way for the ipod Touch to do what I described in the ipod nano?? Or is that just the way it's made?!

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Posted on Sep 11, 2009 1:04 PM

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Sep 11, 2009 8:06 PM in response to schn

No. The Touch doesn't remember where in the list you were. Whenever you turn the device off, it almost turns off the music "app." If you think of the music part more as an app instead of a core function, this makes more sense. Just like when you open iTunes, there isn't already music selected. I hope this answers your question.

Sep 11, 2009 10:52 PM in response to schn

If you put it in sleep mode by briefly pressing the sleep/wake button on the top, and then go to turn it back on by briefly pressing the sleep/wake button or home button, it will continue where you left off in the playlist.

If you shut it completely down by pressing and holding the sleep/wake button until you get the 'slide to power off' message and then go to turn it back on, it will not continue where you left off. It will just display the playlist you were in.

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