Well that makes it a tad unusable.
Sep. 7th, 2009 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've been looking forward to mobile Spotify for a while - it's something I'd pay the premium subscription costs to use. I have an S60 phone, and it's in the pipeline for that, but it's one thing that had made me envy iPhone users.
Until an early user pointed out to me that you can't have background apps on the iPhone, which means that whenever you read your email you lose your music player.
D'oh!
Until an early user pointed out to me that you can't have background apps on the iPhone, which means that whenever you read your email you lose your music player.
D'oh!
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Date: 2009-09-07 08:26 am (UTC)Until an early user pointed out to me that you can't have background apps on the iPhone, which means that whenever you read your email you lose your music player.
Not true. The music player app is privileged and allowed to run a background thread; the only thing that interrupts it is an incoming phone call. (I regularly read ebooks using Stanza after setting some music playing.)
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Date: 2009-09-07 08:54 am (UTC)I'm guessing that any app actually can do that but the AppStore would reject it for doing so and they'll make an exception for Spotify and other music players?
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Date: 2009-09-07 08:56 am (UTC)BTW, I find an iPhone much better for longish podcasts than a basic mp3 player. Main niggle is that podcast-like mp3s that aren't downloaded via iTunes are treated (and managed) like songs, rather than having an option to treat them as something that you want to listen to only once. I assume that there are more elegant work-arounds than what I use.
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