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A Ten-Minute Silent Song Is Soaring Up the iTunes Charts
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All you power button trolls need to stop. Its a pain in the ****ing ass to every time I turn the car on, to have to A) Turn off my radio, B) Stop the song on the phone, and C) Change the radio to what I actually listen to.
As soon as you plug in the phone it changes the radio to what ever is on your phone. When you share your power cord it plays the others library. This isnt a feature, its an annoyance.
It got to the point that I just removed pandora, music, and other song services from my phone. Why does it need to autoplay?
As soon as you plug in the phone it changes the radio to what ever is on your phone. When you share your power cord it plays the others library. This isnt a feature, its an annoyance.
It got to the point that I just removed pandora, music, and other song services from my phone. Why does it need to autoplay?
That is more related to your audio manufacturers system rather than anything in iOS. The issue at large here is that when it does begin playing, it plays the first song in your library. For me, even if I was already listening to something, around 50% of the time it'll change it. I'm just tired of hearing that song.
Well, the thing is this annoys you over time. So you fix it when you're at your computer. I cannot stress how easy this is to achieve, every Mac has the 2 tools to do this (more or less) built in.I did something along these lines at my wedding for my iPod's playlist... I wanted to separate out a few sections of background music at the reception, so I made a 1-minute track of silence and interspersed it in the playlist, repeated for however many minutes I wanted. Worked out great.
I find this quite funny, but also see its utilitarian value for certain people in certain situations. And for those poking fun at people not knowing how to create a silent track, save/name the file and get it into their iTunes library all while on the road and probably away from a computer and in a hurry... well how would you do it with just an iPhone on you? Download an audio app or use one of Apple's that you may have never ever used before? Google furiously to learn how to edit audio? Then face the obstacle of getting the track into the iTunes Library? Or pay the 0.99 and get on with your life? You just overpaid for a coffee and a stale doughnut in that roadside cafe anyway... I mean if the issue was bothering you that much and you hadn't forward planned, or just couldn't be bothered/had no desire to learn how to make your own silent file.... it's a funny and ridiculous/ludicrous solution in some ways, but it's perfectly reasonable in others.
I kind of like the audacity and cheekiness of selling it for 0.99 really. And if it's free on AM then I see even less reason for anyone to grumble if people are adding it on that.
I haven't had this exact issue in a car, but I have sometimes accidentally pressed the play button on my headphones or in iTunes on the desktop from time to time. For me it's the very less-than-serene 'Foghorn' by A, a tune I know well, and one you certainly know about if it kicks in accidentally... "Sick of you, how old do you think you are?"!) Try turning up your speakers/headphones loud and then clicking that link (youtube) and imagine you did that by accident
Sonofa… My car stereo did this exact same thing eight years ago with my first iPod. So I made myself a long silence track; even named it AAAA by ZZZZ. Never occurred to me to put it up for sale.
Well that's a brilliant idea. My car starts playing songs sorted by artist, which means I'm greeted with the intro to A-ha's "Take On Me" every time I turn on the engine. So this particular solution won't work. But I sure can make my own silent track by the Grammy winning artist "A-aaaaafoookyou"
I don't use iTunes so the only album in my library is that stupid U2 one they pushed onto everyone a few years back. Every single time I plug my phone into my 2011 BMW it starts playing some stupid song off that stupid album until I launch the Amazon music app.
How long do you think it would take me, someone who has never opened GarageBand or Audacity or any similar program, to figure out how to do this and accomplish it?
I seem to remember this silent song thing years ago, I think it was a work around for a silent ring tone in the old Symbian Sony Ericsson P800 days.
How about given the option to shuffle from the start? That simple. I'm sure more than one person has already suggested it.
Also, The song should be allowed in the Music Store as long as it discloses it's purpose. No real reason for Apple to take it down.
Not too long ago, one band created a whole album filled with nothing but silent songs. Using music streaming services, their fans would let the album stream over night in a loop, generating whatever fraction of a cent the band earned for every play of a song of theirs. They also used the minimum allowable song length (that generates payment) to cram as many songs as possible into every night. Apparently they made several tens of thousands of Dollars before the streaming services caught on.
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So rather than just creating a blank track with Audacity (for free), people are paying 0.99 for... a blank track?
I have only one response.
I have only one response.
This happens on my non-CarPlay 2016 Subaru Outback.
Same for me.
It's not funny; it's highly annoying. The fact that Apple has not addressed this is deplorable.
Guy making $15 hour at Burger King: Don't you know that you could make your own file in about 20 minutes instead of paying $.99? Not a good use of my money.
Guy who charges $3000 a day for consulting: Not a good use of my time.
Guy who charges $3000 a day for consulting: Not a good use of my time.
My neighbor plays this song on full blast all day long.
I love thiz song. Almost that good as ‘enjoy the silence’. Rispect
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Dude u should be the kind of person who never goes 2 Restourants cause u can make the meal at home. Plz dont be cheap n buy thiz peace of art. Support our artists 2 make a better world u know what i mean? Its just 1 usd gosh
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Dude u should be the kind of person who never goes 2 Restourants cause u can make the meal at home. Plz dont be cheap n buy thiz peace of art. Support our artists 2 make a better world u know what i mean? Its just 1 usd gosh
Ha, that's the exact song my car-connected nano plays when it forgets the last song it played. Fortunately, it's not that often.
This is an issue with head units, specifically they don't keep enough state around to start where you left off. I suspect they're sending the wrong command - they're sending "start playing", instead of "resume playing."
That's the problem with specifications without user stories attached to them: when you leave it up to an engineer they usually make the wrong choice.
That's the problem with specifications without user stories attached to them: when you leave it up to an engineer they usually make the wrong choice.