Why does iPhone's iPod app connect to internet?

[apu1234]

When I'm listening to music with my iPhone it shows the spinning icon in the menubar. Does anyone know why? I don't think it's supposed to download anything and this might drain my battery quicker.

 

[Sixtafoua]

Thats weird. Are you running any apps in the background?

 

[apu1234]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; fi-fi) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

This has happened more than once, but I don't remember if I had any other apps open. I don't think that that icon should be visible though if the app using Internet is running on the background.

 

[sreedy]

I was wondering this myself as it's happened to me a number of times with no other Apps running at all.

 

[heisenberg123]

its looking for an AirPlay or home sharing connection?