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A Ten-Minute Silent Song Is Soaring Up the iTunes Charts
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play/pause does nothing in my honda civic. if I pause my iphone it just starts playing again right away. I do tend to use the power button method.
It drives me crazy that music always has to be playing when plugged into the USB port in my civic. Sometimes I just want to hear the navigation, but no, music always has to play along with it. If i use my phone speakers, I can't charge it at the same time or nothing comes out of the speakers
#firstworldproblems
Guy needs to save those 99c tracks for a lawyer.
Mike Batt and John Cage (or their lawyers and record companies) will be after him soon enough.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...yright-battle-over-60-seconds-of-silence.html
*btw, my first track, Millencolin ~ A-Ten
Mike Batt and John Cage (or their lawyers and record companies) will be after him soon enough.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...yright-battle-over-60-seconds-of-silence.html
*btw, my first track, Millencolin ~ A-Ten
Yeah...it isn't laziness, this is a UX problem. Most "modern" cars don't just have a radio power button, the stereo is just always powered on.
On my Mazda, my phone automatically connects, then starts playing sometime between 10 seconds and 2 minutes into my drive (Since my starting point is a parking garage, so no cell service for streaming audio.) The screen on my stereo is not necessarily on the music player, which if it isn't means I have to hit the music button, scroll over five items with the wheel then hit the select button to pause. Quite annoying to do this multiple times a day after I am already driving, which is why I ended up just disconnecting bluetooth and using wired when I want to listen to music. The audio quality is better anyways, but this is a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. It only exists because car manufacturers suck at technology.
Y'all do realise that you could have made your own silent MP3 for free, don't you??
I was thinking the same - that wouldn't give you as long to find what you really wanted to play though
NOW WITH OVER DOUBLE THE SILENCE FOR THE SAME LOW PRICE!
(sorry for the caps, I was channeling my inner late night infomercial)
I don't understand the need for a paid song here. Anyone with a Mac has access to Garageband and can make their own, or one could use Audacity (free) for PC or Mac.
I did that months ago to fix this problem. My phone kept playing a Ludavico Einaudi [sp] song called (also [sp]) A Furore and it became so annoying I was about to delete it until I realised I could just replace its position in my iTunes library with a silent song
I researched into doing something smart with it, like, was it possible to automate a computer reading of the daily weather report and replace itself each morning? It turns out yes - but! iTunes doesn't recognise it as being changed unless its metadata is edited, and so it isn't uploaded to iCloud. (boring... but there you go)
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I did that months ago to fix this problem. My phone kept playing a Ludavico Einaudi [sp] song called (also [sp]) A Furore and it became so annoying I was about to delete it until I realised I could just replace its position in my iTunes library with a silent song
I researched into doing something smart with it, like, was it possible to automate a computer reading of the daily weather report and replace itself each morning? It turns out yes - but! iTunes doesn't recognise it as being changed unless its metadata is edited, and so it isn't uploaded to iCloud. (boring... but there you go)
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Don't overestimate intelligence in 2016+.
play/pause does nothing in my honda civic. if I pause my iphone it just starts playing again right away. I do tend to use the power button method.
It drives me crazy that music always has to be playing when plugged into the USB port in my civic. Sometimes I just want to hear the navigation, but no, music always has to play along with it. If i use my phone speakers, I can't charge it at the same time or nothing comes out of the speakers
Just wondering... do all of you realize the commenter you're replying to thinks this "song" is available because people want silence? "This is one of the most stupid things I've heard of in quite some time. If you want silence, there's this thing called the power button on your radio."
The comments each of you is replying with are entirely unrelated to what the poster "thinks" the article is about.
I don't think this one has anything to worry about from Cage. John was making a point about the space between the notes being important to music and that silence still contains much sound. This guy released pure silence (no page flipping of the score, no rest notes in the composition, it's digital nothingness) so it shouldn't be considered plagiarism of Cage's work.
I bought a DC USB charger for my car for this very reason.
It drove me nuts that I couldn't plug my phone into the car's USB ports without it hijacking the stereo and playing my iTunes library. Although, I'm not sure if the fault for this lies with Apple or if it lies with the car manufacturers who put the stereos in the cars.
It drove me nuts that I couldn't plug my phone into the car's USB ports without it hijacking the stereo and playing my iTunes library. Although, I'm not sure if the fault for this lies with Apple or if it lies with the car manufacturers who put the stereos in the cars.
I have a Ford with the MySync or MyTouch or whatever-it's-called garbage. No matter what I do on my phone or in the car's music settings, it always does shuffle and plays a random song from my Library.
I could be listing to "Cool Playlist 1" while driving to the store. I park, go inside to shop, come back out to my car, and it will start playing something completely random instead of the playlist I was just listening to.
I don't understand why iOS doesn't have any "DEFAULTS" option. I'm not even looking for a default Music app. I already use Apple's "default" Music app. I just want to be able to set it to "always start with X" or "always resume last playlist or station".
I've actually deleted a ton of songs from my Library because of this. Things like Christmas songs or songs from some band I don't like (but had downloaded for someone else to hear). Songs I've had in my library long before I ever used Apple Music or had bluetooth streaming. I deleted them because I was tired of hearing them RANDOMLY play any time I got into my car.
Adding an "AAAAAAAA Song" won't help, as my car never starts from the top. It always shuffles.
I could be listing to "Cool Playlist 1" while driving to the store. I park, go inside to shop, come back out to my car, and it will start playing something completely random instead of the playlist I was just listening to.
I don't understand why iOS doesn't have any "DEFAULTS" option. I'm not even looking for a default Music app. I already use Apple's "default" Music app. I just want to be able to set it to "always start with X" or "always resume last playlist or station".
I've actually deleted a ton of songs from my Library because of this. Things like Christmas songs or songs from some band I don't like (but had downloaded for someone else to hear). Songs I've had in my library long before I ever used Apple Music or had bluetooth streaming. I deleted them because I was tired of hearing them RANDOMLY play any time I got into my car.
Adding an "AAAAAAAA Song" won't help, as my car never starts from the top. It always shuffles.
I frequently prefer silence versus some of the crap that is passing for popular music these days....
Since I use google music ($7.99 grandfathered) I fixed this by deleting the music app. What Youtube ads?
Done.
Done.
Hardly useless. And definitely accurate. MR, please stop making stupid people (and things) famous.
Added via Apple Music. This problem has plagued me, even now with Carplay. For a while it was A-Punk, then became a really obnoxious problem when it became NWA's "a B***** is a b*****" Has been Louis Armstrong's A Fine Romance since I had to delete the NWA song entirely to remedy that one. A simple but welcome solution.
Lets see, spending 99 cent on a "song" that costs less than a cheeseburger or bothering to boot up my dusty macbook and install some app. Hmmm
"A Blessing and a Curse" by Drive-By Truckers, I've heard the first few seconds of the song probably a 1000 times.
I really hope Apple is finally paying attention.
This issue is one of the most annoying things about the iPhone. Every single time when I get into my car and it auto-connects to Bluetooth, the very first song starts auto-playing. Same when I plug in my phone using the cable.
I actually have made my own long silence song last year and added it to my library, so the stereo doesn't start playing loud every time I start up the car anymore. I should have started selling the song on iTunes months ago. By now I'd be rich...
I really hope Apple is finally paying attention.
This issue is one of the most annoying things about the iPhone. Every single time when I get into my car and it auto-connects to Bluetooth, the very first song starts auto-playing. Same when I plug in my phone using the cable.
I actually have made my own long silence song last year and added it to my library, so the stereo doesn't start playing loud every time I start up the car anymore. I should have started selling the song on iTunes months ago. By now I'd be rich...
Perhaps... but isn't the point of the track to provide silence while you find what you want to actually listen to? I took the posters suggestions to also provide silence while you find what you want to listen to. I usually turn my stereo off until my iPhone is playing what I want and then turn it back on (if what it plays by default is annoying me that much).
Yes, that is the point of the track. However, that isn't the point the poster was making. The poster was under the assumption that the silence was the point, hence the turn off the power.