Writing this thread because there is a massive host of new quirks and stupid behaviour introduced by the updated music player in iOS7.
Faults/stupid changes from iOS6 include the following;
- You could swipe an album in iOS6, and it would give you the option to delete. You can only delete songs one at a time now.
- If a song title was too long you could press and hold it and a little pop up with show the full name, this no longer happens (in playlist or viewing a list of songs in an album).
- If a song title was too long, the main music player view would scroll like a ticker. This no longer happens and the end of the title is chopped off. See below.
- You will also notice that the volume slider and skip next button can be close together, a few times I have missed the skip button by 1mm and delivered a deafening blast of music to my ears. Not nice.
- The music view in the lock screen is a nice touch, poorly executed though. If you don't have your thumb exactly on the slider to skip through a track/podcast you will just end up swiping to unlock. The volume slider and skip keys are too close, again a chance of a nice deafening blast of music is present.
(I had my thumb on the tab/slider and it still did that.)
- You can no longer play podcasts using the music app, you HAVE to use the Podcasts app, which is the worst app in the entire universe. Ever. I deleted a podcast from my iPhone, and when I checked iTunes it removed TWO HUNDRED episodes from the last few years worth of something when it synced. SIGH.
- The final stupid thing, I think... Sometimes when I take my phone out of my pocket, the music player will get stuck in landscape mode, like this...
So I have to rotate my phone..
and back again..
Stupid, right?
**edit** OH NO, WAIT THERE'S MORE.
- I have a couple of smart playlists that sync music from the last week/month depending on type, the music syncs across fine but the playlists do not update. This has just started.
- If I delete songs from the iPhone and want them back, they won't sync back automatically. I end up having to deselect the playlists, syncing the phone and then selecting the playlists and syncing. I used to be able to delete loads of albums on iOS6 to save space and load them back instantly when I sync, this doesn't happen any more.
I don't mind change, but this is stupid. There's been two smaller updates since too, nothing has been fixed.
I suppose my question is, is there another bloody music app for iOS?
Faults/stupid changes from iOS6 include the following;
- You could swipe an album in iOS6, and it would give you the option to delete. You can only delete songs one at a time now.
- If a song title was too long you could press and hold it and a little pop up with show the full name, this no longer happens (in playlist or viewing a list of songs in an album).
- If a song title was too long, the main music player view would scroll like a ticker. This no longer happens and the end of the title is chopped off. See below.
- You will also notice that the volume slider and skip next button can be close together, a few times I have missed the skip button by 1mm and delivered a deafening blast of music to my ears. Not nice.
- The music view in the lock screen is a nice touch, poorly executed though. If you don't have your thumb exactly on the slider to skip through a track/podcast you will just end up swiping to unlock. The volume slider and skip keys are too close, again a chance of a nice deafening blast of music is present.
(I had my thumb on the tab/slider and it still did that.)
- You can no longer play podcasts using the music app, you HAVE to use the Podcasts app, which is the worst app in the entire universe. Ever. I deleted a podcast from my iPhone, and when I checked iTunes it removed TWO HUNDRED episodes from the last few years worth of something when it synced. SIGH.
- The final stupid thing, I think... Sometimes when I take my phone out of my pocket, the music player will get stuck in landscape mode, like this...
So I have to rotate my phone..
and back again..
Stupid, right?
**edit** OH NO, WAIT THERE'S MORE.
- I have a couple of smart playlists that sync music from the last week/month depending on type, the music syncs across fine but the playlists do not update. This has just started.
- If I delete songs from the iPhone and want them back, they won't sync back automatically. I end up having to deselect the playlists, syncing the phone and then selecting the playlists and syncing. I used to be able to delete loads of albums on iOS6 to save space and load them back instantly when I sync, this doesn't happen any more.
I don't mind change, but this is stupid. There's been two smaller updates since too, nothing has been fixed.
I suppose my question is, is there another bloody music app for iOS?
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