It's the damndest thing. As recently as last Monday I had no trouble with my iPod app on my iPhone -- why should I? It's built-in. However I haven't really used it in the last week because I was on vacation, and I most frequently use the iPod going to and from work. At home I just listen through iTunes. So today on the trip home I stuck it on for the first time in a little over a week -- and I can't pause songs. If I hit pause, it stops the song entirely and goes back to the playlist, and there's no "Now Playing" button to go back to the song I was listening to. It's not that it even skips the song I'm listening to, either -- it completely restarts shuffle mode if I start playing again. This happens whether I'm using the inline remote on my IEMs or in the iPod app itself: Hit pause, it immediately slides back to the songs menu, no "Now Playing." Da hell? Anyone have this happen? I'm still using 4.3.0, haven't updated to 4.3.2 yet, but I'm probably going to do that tonight hoping that it fixes the problem, but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this or if it's a known issue. I can't even Google it because the keywords I need to use are too broad.
Never mind. Quite by accident I found out what the problem was: Radio Alarm is screwing with the iPod App -- which is something I never would have considered because I thought the sandboxed nature of apps meant they couldn't screw with other apps. Once I kill the Radio Alarm task the problem goes away. Which sucks because Radio Alarm has been flat out the best alarm clock I've used -- and I've tried plenty. Now I have to kill the task and hope I remember to reload it after I'm done with the iPod App -- at least until the bug report I submitted is dealt with.
