iOS 7 USB Vehicle Loses last played location

Bighouse wrote:

[...] This started with new OS 7, if i recently played a song unplug the device make a quick call plug it back, if i press the button twice and player comes up, im good it plays from where it stopped, but if i press the iphone button twice an player is gone, i use the new sliding up and it plays from the library. [...]

This makes me wonder if the position memory has been moved from some global location into the local memory of the Music app as part of adapting to the new multitasking model. That could explain why the mere lapse of time would increase the likelihood of the position being forgotten.

"i also tried via the aux cable which uses head phone jack the same thing happens."

What do you mean, exactly?

With the USB issue, whatever is in Now Playing disappears as soon as the USB is plugged in or unplugged from the car stereo. Are you saying the same thing happens when you plug in headphones? That if you have something paused in Now Playing, plug in headphones, and then what's in Now Playing goes away? And that if you're playing something and unplug your headphones, what's in Now Playing goes away?

Also, what do you mean by "if i press the button twice and player comes up, im good it plays from where it stopped, but if i press the iphone button twice an player is gone"? What buttons are you talking about?

And thanks, StormdriverOne.

Glad to help and thanks for the playlist tip. That's at least some relief for new CD purchases.

Ok my phone is locked, before with ios6 you could use your button (the one at the bottom under your screen, double press and music player comes up(skip, play pause) now u have to slide up to bring the player, the only time the player will come up the old way with the double press of the button, is if tue player was already playing, and you stopped it do take a call, then u doule press the button n press play.

Aux is another way i can plug any devices through the head phone jack in my car.

Hope this helps!

That sounds logical to me, i may have to phone apple up and get them to figure it out..

I'm still not following. I don't know of anywhere in iOS 7 where double pressing the home button will bring up the music player controls.

And yes, I'm aware of aux jacks, but to the iPhone, with the exception of headphones with controls on them (like the headphones that come with the iPhone), anything plugged into the headphone jack is the same. That is, plugging in normal headphones will have the same effect as plugging into an aux jack.

Regardless of all of that, however, yes, definitely contact Apple.

Ok try this:

Start a song, lock your phone an let it play... Then press the buttong twice on your lock screen, you dint get the player options?? I do! ;)

At least one thing they kept i would hate to have to slide up everytime i want to skip a song.

And for me, i lose my playlist sing wether i use head phones or usb in my car. Its very annoying at least yours seems to work fine.

If something is playing (or recently paused), the player controls will show up in the lock screen automatically. So if you press home *once* (to turn on the display and show the lock screen), the player controls are there. Pressing it twice doesn't do anything more.

Oh you are correct i got so used to press twice from ios6 i never thought of or noticed it was only needed once. I miss being able to start the music that way, seems if the player isnt started i have to slide up and of course i am back on the main library so i still have to unlock it and choose my song lol ah the humanity. Im about to install ios6 back! :)

I also have this problem, I put my muisc on shuffle via songs. I plug it into my usb sony car radio and it starts playing the first alphabetical song. The only way I can overcome this is by plugging it in first, then setting shuffle in the songs bit. But then if I try to skip a song on my radio, it starts to play the first album. I am losing patience with apple, never had these issues before upgrading to ios7.

Interestingly, I updated to 7.0.3 last night, and today USB playback seems to be working properly. Whether this fix/change is permanent or not is unclear, but *something* happened.

iPhone 5, FYI.

My USB is working as well with no issues at all since performing the update. Now it only resets to first alphabetical song if I do a hard reset, or close out the app completely and reconnect. It's tolerable now