STOP playing songs on ipod nano 6, not just PAUSE

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STOP playing songs on ipod nano 6, not just PAUSE

I just got a new iPod nano 6th generation.
Was just wondering, when i select a song (either from a playlist or just a random song), once i am done listening to that song the iPod automatically goes onto another song.
If i no long want to listen i can always just press pause and then turn the iPod off.
This however irritates me, i hate having the "pause" symbol in the top left had corner (forever)
How do i press STOP? So that songs are no longer played and when i turn the iPod off it will not have the paused sign, in the top left hand corner but rather nothing.

Message was edited by: marc_segall

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 1, 2010 2:29 AM

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DouglasH

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Oct 1, 2010 11:33 PM in response to marc_segall

If the concern is the esthetics or psychological effect of the PAUSE icon: tap the radio icon and then tap the STOP icon on the first radio display. (The second radio display (swipe left) with the PAUSE icon is the Live Pause feature, which records up to 15 minutes of radio time for later playback. This feature is probably pretty power hungry.)

If the concern is that pausing a song, somehow runs down the battery more quickly than stopping it would, because the iPod has to remember where it was, this is not the case.

See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4354

If you pause a song playing on a fully charge Nano 6G and it dies after being paused a day or two, then there's likely a hardware problem.

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May 4, 2013 2:21 AM in response to marc_segall

GUYS i have found the ANSWER!!! All you have to do is press all the 3 buttons (+,-, sleep/wake) for 6 seconds and your nano will restart and then if you see on the right corner there will be no music sign.

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planb77

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Oct 1, 2010 7:33 AM in response to marc_segall

Hello marc_segall,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!

Sorry, but the Pause functionality is all you have, without fully rebooting the iPod. There is no Stop option, button, action, or functionality.

B-rock

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lilou

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Oct 1, 2010 8:18 AM in response to planb77

I have the same question as marc_segall.
There is no apparent way to STOP the music except PAUSE. The battery was flat the next morning after a full recharge the previous 8 hours. Does anyone have an answer to this? Radio and Pedometer were off but obviously with Music I have a problem.

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Oct 1, 2010 10:25 AM in response to lilou

Here are a couple of workarounds:

1. If you are on a playlist or short album, and you do NOT have repeat turned on, just FW or REV to the end of the list.

2. If your headphones are in, turn the radio on, then off.

3. If your headphones are in and you have a microphone, quickly record a voice memo.

Then it will revert to the watch face, assuming that's what you had running, and then you can wear it as a watch!!! That's what I do.

Watch this space for my next post: can we have the calendar back, and would a small, watch type speaker (just for the alarms) be out of the quesiton?

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Oct 1, 2010 2:34 PM in response to Stephen Spark

Hmm. I've had my nano (6th generation) for only 1.5 days and it's already out of power, even though it's been paused after just 2-3 hours of use. I'm very disappointed in this product and will be getting my money back.

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skreidle

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Dec 3, 2011 1:41 PM in response to skybolt2000

I found that even if headphones aren't plugged in, hitting Radio (which reports "No Radio Signal, Please plug in headphones...") and backing out clears that Music pause as well.

My issue isn't one of battery drain -- it's that if Music is paused and the screen goes dark, any time I wake it up, it returns to the paused music screen (either immediately or after clearing the clock, depending on whether Clock-on-Wake is set or not.)

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crezo

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Jan 29, 2012 10:45 AM in response to marc_segall

For the record, having music paused DOES cane the battery. I'm

Lucky to get a day out of the battery when paused, and that's from just using it as a watch.

However if you tap the radio icon with no phones plugged in it will unpause the music, then you can get 2-3 days in watch mode. I bought mine solely as a watch to use with tiktok aluminiun strap after reading a five day battery life.

Doesn't even come close to that, and the watch face colours are completely different to what was shown on the apple site. So I'm a bit disappointed. Still love it, but not what I was hoping for at all.

I'm still hunting down the code that tells the nano what colour the hardware is so that I can reset it and get the different colored faces... I'll post up on here once I've found it!!

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