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A Ten-Minute Silent Song Is Soaring Up the iTunes Charts

Coldsmoke55 said:
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. As an alternative, you can hit the "play" button to pause your music too. Paying .99 for a blank file to play silence is the height of laziness. Astounding.
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You’re against paying one single dollar in order not to have to hit the pause or power button every single time you get in your car for the rest of the life of that vehicle? One dollar and you fix that issue FOREVER and you’re against it? What if the first track that plays would have been your favorite song, but now you hate it? What if it’s something that is extremely loud from start up? Or yells some curse and you don’t want that happening when you give your grandparents a ride?

There are endless situations where this is not stupid.
 
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This is actually a really smart idea. It drives me insane that Ace of Spades plays every. Single. Time!

Come on Apple, at least set it to throw up a random song, that I could live with... or let me set it to auto play from Spotify?
 
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Coldsmoke55 said:
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. As an alternative, you can hit the "play" button to pause your music too. Paying .99 for a blank file to play silence is the height of laziness. Astounding.
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1. If you TURN OFF the audio, you won't hear from the voice of turn-by-turn navigation app on the iPhone.

2. Vehicles like mine, BMW 520d, doesn't have pause button for AUX, USB-connected source.

3. People are not that stupid as you think. There are REASONS people are doing.
 
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melody-nyc said:
[doublepost=1502582415][/doublepost]This is the most ridiculous solution ever - and even more shocking is that people actually PAID for it. No offense, but the only people foolish and lazy enough to actually spend money buying this 10-minute silent track must be millennials - lazy, entitled, "I can't do anything for myself" millennials. If this is such a huge deal for you, just make a silent recording yourself! But no, they can't take time out of their busy "texting" and "facebook-friending" day to make the track for themselves. ... Speaks volumes about this generation.
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Jesus, stop your diatribe. It's embarrassing.
 
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Just bought this a minute ago. Best $0.99 song I've ever bought. Thanks to the artist, Samir Mezrahi. Deserves a Grammy for sure!
 
Saipher said:
Well, hopefully now Apple will address this issue since it has been brought to light, and apparently a lot of people find it extremely annoying. The fact that a silent track, solely made to patch this issue, is on the top 50 songs on iTunes shows how widespread this issue really is. It's kind of sad people had to resort to this to deal with this inconvenience...
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This is not an Apple issue. This is behavior implemented by the auto manufacturer, where if it detects a Bluetooth connection it tells the connected device, “play the first (next) song.” On my old Ford Fusion, it autoplayed, on my current BMW 5 series, it doesn’t. I have a second car with a Pioneer CarPlay unit, and it can be set to autoplay or not autoplay. When I rent a car, its about 50/50.
 
My car always picks up on the last song I was listening to. This is via Bluetooth. Do I have a special car??
 
Coldsmoke55 said:
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. As an alternative, you can hit the "play" button to pause your music too. Paying .99 for a blank file to play silence is the height of laziness. Astounding.
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Not lazy. It's a smart workaround for a stupid 'feature' in some cars.

If you plug your iOS device into a 2012 Honda Odyssey to charge, it instantly auto plays the first song in your library, alphabetically. My wife and I have both gotten so sick of Allentown by Billy Joel, and A Shot of Rythm and Blues by the Beatles, that we have removed those songs from our respective iOS library. (Only to suffer with the next "A" song each time we get in the van.)

This is a genius idea, and I am just sorry I didn't think of it earlier. On Apple Music, didn't even have to pay 99 cents.
 
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az431 said:
This is not an Apple issue. This is behavior implemented by the auto manufacturer, where if it detects a Bluetooth connection it tells the connected device, “play the first (next) song.” On my old Ford Fusion, it autoplayed, on my current BMW 5 series, it doesn’t. I have a second car with a Pioneer CarPlay unit, and it can be set to autoplay or not autoplay. When I rent a car, its about 50/50.
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Don't think so. It seems to me that if the music app is not already open, the car launches it for you on connection, then Music auto plays the first track alphabetically in regards to artist/title filtering, even if left in shuffle mode.
iTunes does it on my desktop, always, but the intro to "hells bells" AcDc" aint a bad first world problem to have.
 
Coldsmoke55 said:
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. As an alternative, you can hit the "play" button to pause your music too. Paying .99 for a blank file to play silence is the height of laziness. Astounding.
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It's not just about laziness, it's about how much you value your time. Sure, the solution is easy: create file, name it properly, import to your iTunes library, sync your phone. 10 minutes' work. Or the cost of a chocoate bar to give you a solution in an instant. Imagine paying 99p to remove a minor annoyance from your life forever! I might commit £30 and remove 30!
 
Da_Hood said:
Don't think so. It seems to me that if the music app is not already open, the car launches it for you on connection, then Music auto plays the first track alphabetically in regards to artist/title filtering, even if left in shuffle mode.
iTunes does it on my desktop, always, but the intro to "hells bells" AcDc" aint a bad first world problem to have.
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Oh, maybe mine doesn't do it because I never close the music app. I know a lot of people though that close every app no matter what. Maybe that's why it plays the first song every time.
 
I had this idea last year. The first song on my alphabetical list is A/B Machines by Sleigh Bells. Even when the volume is low, we all jump out of our skin when it starts playing.
 
tobefirst said:
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?
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Not long at all. I haven't used GarageBand and learnt how easy it is to use. You just load it up, put any sample down and turn the volume to 0%, then export as ringtone.

I'm sure there are other ways. Heck. I'm sure there's a free MP3 available to download somewhere.
 
R10k said:
Yes, because the vast majority of people in the world know how to use Audacity.
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Congratulations! You’ve won the “Over-exaggeration Of The Day Award!”

EDIT: Unless you were being sarcastic, and in that case, maybe use “/s” next time.
 
hotgril said:
Well, I don't get why the iPod interface does this in the first place. It was equally annoying to plug in an iPod and have a joke song my friend made called "Aaaahhh" play first.
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Dude, I can eat all week for $25, and it's healthier than what restaurants serve.
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Dud who sale u the food? The red cross?
 
Dagless said:
Not long at all. I haven't used GarageBand and learnt how easy it is to use. You just load it up, put any sample down and turn the volume to 0%, then export as ringtone.

I'm sure there are other ways. Heck. I'm sure there's a free MP3 available to download somewhere.
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You're right. I'm pretty adept at technology. It wouldn't take me too long. Maybe 10 minutes. But my time, especially my free time, is worth more to me than $6 an hour. And that's mainly my point -- it's cheaper/more efficient to just pay someone who has already done the work.
 
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