View full track info in iOS Music App

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May 09, '12 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: mingo

This hint solves a long standing problem when playing classical music on an iPhone. When using the iPhone Music app (iOS 5.1), the full entry (e.g. name of artist, album or song title) for an item can be too long to be displayed. Tap and hold entry to see the full entry pop up. Tap and drag your finger down the list to make the pop up change as you drag. This works for album titles, song titles, and artists names.

[kirkmc adds: Nice. I hadn't heard of this before, but searching the web shows that it is not totally unknown. Since it hasn't shown up here before, it's worth posting.]

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View full track info in iOS Music App
Authored by: nebyoolae on May 09, '12 10:50:06AM

If only they would finally do this in the iTunes/App Store apps.

View full track info in iOS Music App
Authored by: Mac Berry on May 10, '12 12:58:04AM

Nice hint, but I don't understand why it's only an issue for classical music?

View full track info in iOS Music App
Authored by: isralewi on May 11, '12 12:58:48PM

Mac Berry, it is more of issue for classical music since track titles in this genre can get very long (albeit packed with relevant information). Here's two example track titles...

Track 4 from a Beethoven album:
Quartet in A minor, op. 132 IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace--Piu Allegro--attaca:

Track 3 from a Schubert album:
Divertissement A L'Hongroise In G Minor, D 818: Marcia. Andante Con Moto-Trio

This problem also comes up with long podcast titles.

By the way, I was very happy when iPhones and iPods Touch at long-last caught up to the non-Touch iPods in their ability to display long track information (non-Touch iPods since the early models havehad some way to scroll long track information, often by auto-scrolling in certain display contexts. The recent trouch-screen Nano has a nice 'swipe to scroll track info' feature.

View full track info in iOS Music App
Authored by: marook on May 10, '12 04:42:50PM

Can't get it to work on the iPad.. :-(

Also frustrating that it's not possible to add other metadata to the display, like BPM or notes..

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/Marook

View full track info in iOS Music App
Authored by: richiesmit on May 14, '12 02:57:30PM

As far as I can tell, this method is generally true of any truncated text in iOS applications. Why bury this as an iOS iTunes-only Classical music-only hint?

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