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phraxion Author

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iOS 6: Music playback issues?

After upgrading to ios 6 I've found an extremely annoying problem regarding music playback. iOS 6 doesn't seem to remember where you last paused a playlist, album, etc... it always starts back at the last place you originally started it.

For example:

I have an album with 12 songs. I start it on track 4, listen to a few songs on the way to work. Pull the headphone cord once I arrive and Music pauses as expected. When I return to the car for the drive back home, instead of resuming playback where I left off, it starts back at track 4 again.

Another example:

Let's say I want to listen to an artist, so I go to "All Songs" and just hit shuffle so it plays randomly. I listen to a few tracks here and there, skip a few, all is good. Just as with albums, when I stop playback and resume later it will always return back to the first song played, and play then back in the same order again.

Am I missing a setting or something? I searched the settings app may times and can't find anything even close. Does it have anything to do with me pausing the player by removing the headphone cord? Could it be some app I am using between pauses?

Never had issues with ios 5, so this is defenitely software related. iOS 5 used to remember where I last played music over days -- even if I were to watch videos on the iPhone or listen to Pandora between music playback.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 2, 2012 5:02 AM

238 replies

Mar 1, 2013 7:19 AM in response to phraxion

I can't believe this is still an issue. What the heck apple? I'm ready to try a third party app or switch to Spotify or Amazon's cloud player.

Mar 1, 2013 5:21 PM in response to phraxion

Hey guys;

I just got off of the phone with Apple support and they have not experienced this issue before. I'm guessing that despite all of the people with this problem, no one has called Apple?

Regardless, I have a solution that they gave me and seems to have worked (so far). They said to go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset all settings. You will not loose any data, but you will have to reenter any Wi-Fi codes, keyboards, wallpaper, passcodes, etc. that you have configured.

Hope this helps!

Mar 1, 2013 6:00 PM in response to SamwiseVT

Apple had me try that - didn't work. Nor did a full reset.

I've actually had 2 of these devices and both have had this issue.

I have an open case with Apple on this.

siak

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Mar 9, 2013 8:51 AM in response to phraxion

Have the same issue on my iPod Touch 4 6.1.2. Hope that it will be fixed in the next updated. But now this issue is so annoying! Arrrrrrrgh!

Mar 9, 2013 1:23 PM in response to SamwiseVT

Any followup from Samwise on whether this continues to solve the problem? I don't want to go through the hassle of resetting my phone if it's not an actual solution, but I'll give it a try if at least someone has success with it...

jessero

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Mar 14, 2013 6:37 AM in response to phraxion

I am just going to add that i am having this problem as well. iPhone 4S with iOS version 6.1.2. Posted feedback on the above mentioned form.

Mar 14, 2013 7:29 PM in response to phraxion

Alright...well for about 2 weeks I've been having success with resuming at the song that it was paused at. What have I been doing? Well that's my little secret.....haha...I'll share --- I unlock the device, go to Music, and pause it there. When I'm ready to resume, I unlock the device again, go to Music, and voila, it works!

IF I double click the home button and pause and/or resume from that shortcut, then most of the time it won't resume properly.

This is an annoying workaround, but it is one none the less.

jocknerd

Level 1

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Mar 19, 2013 6:09 AM in response to phraxion

Yep. I've had the same problem. Very annoying. Yesterday morning, I hit shuffle on one of my playlists. First song up was 'Magnificent Seven' by The Clash. Played that song and about 3 or 4 more. After lunch, put headphones on to listen to music while working. First song up? 'Magnificent Seven'. Hit next until I got to where I wanted to be. Listened to a few more songs. When I left work, I fired up my music again. What song came up? 'Magnificent Seven'. I love the song, but jeez. Never had this problem before. In fact, a few years ago, I played every song I liked in alphabetical order and never had this problem.

Apple's quality is falling fast.

ajsedlak

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Mar 20, 2013 9:19 AM in response to phraxion

Just throwing up my hand to say "me, too!" on this. Same things... restarts several songs back and/or starts on right song but at the beginning. I've seen people mentioning similar behavior with audiobooks.

DanysNet

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Mar 22, 2013 2:27 AM in response to phraxion

I'm having a strange shuffle problem as well. iPhone 4, latest iOS. I have more than 600 songs on my iPod and no matter where I start the shuffle round, it ALWAYS restarts the shuffle playlist after exactly 12 songs. So everytime I start a new shuffle round, after 12 tracks I'm getting the same 12 tracks again.

Anybody experiencing the same? It keeps happening after resynching, even if I added songs or took some out.

CHiKouNe

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Mar 22, 2013 5:29 AM in response to DanysNet

"Latest iOS" meaning 6.1.3, or the previous one?

DanysNet

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Mar 22, 2013 5:35 AM in response to CHiKouNe

Yes the very latest, updated yesterday. But the problem already existed before that update.

CHiKouNe

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Mar 22, 2013 5:41 AM in response to phraxion

I'm not going to be upgrading to 6.1.3 for a while, as it probably requires a lot of free space and I need to do a backup before I start deleting apps. Has anyone upgraded? Does the problem still exist?

pmiranda

Level 1

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Mar 22, 2013 9:54 AM in response to CHiKouNe

I just upgraded to 6.1.3 this morning so I'll see how it does. Didn't really require any extra space as far as I could tell.

I notice that even across the upgrade and reboot it remembered where I was in the playlist :-)

Now for something hard like seeing if it can keep track of my place overnight...

Mar 22, 2013 11:09 AM in response to phraxion

I held off upgrading to 6 from 5 until this week. This problem would come up very rarely on 5, but happens basically every time now. 😠

iOS 6: Music playback issues?