Playing while locked works just fine. And, when you wake up the device, not necessarily unlocking it, the two finger double tap stops it, which didn’t work early in this new app cycle.
Richard, USA "It's no great honor to be blind, but it's more than a nuisance and less than a disaster. Either you're going to fight like hell when your sight fails or you're going to stand on the sidelines for the rest of your life." -- Dr. Margaret Rockwell Phanstiehl Founder of Audio Description (1932-2009) My web site: <https://www.turner42.com> https://www.turner42.com From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Rick Alfaro Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 11:01 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Sirius XM iOS App Thanks Chris, that was a great explanation of the screens and very useful. Do you know if they have enabled the ability to continue playing while the device is locked? Warmest regards, Rick Alfaro rick.alf...@gmail.com <mailto:rick.alf...@gmail.com> From: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > On Behalf Of Chris Chaffin Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 11:17 AM To: ViPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Sirius XM iOS App For those Sirius XM users, here are just some tips in using their iOS app. 1, there are 3 tabs at the bottom, but only 2 are important, the search tab and the Library tab. The Library tab is where your favorites are located. 2, On a lot of the main screens you will find a list of buttons at the top. Most of the time they are labeled, but I have found a couple of times where they were not. The buttons should be, in this order: All, Channels, Shows and Podcast, Artist and Host, Sports, and Downloads. If I find one not labeled, I just use the 2 finger double tap and hold gesture to relabel it. 3, To add a channel to your Library / Favorites. Go to the search tab, and do a search. In the search results, double tap on the channel you want to add. On the channel screen, you will find a Add to Library button. Double tap it to Add. At that time the button will then change to Remove from Library. 4, Just like Apple Music, Sirius XM now has a player screen that can be maximized and minimized. You can only maximize it once you start playing the channel. The player screen is where you will find all of the options and controls for that channel. To maximize the player: After you start playing the channel, go back to the top of the screen. If you do not hear, maximize player, then just swipe left until you do. Once you hear maximize player, double tap it and the player screen will appear. Now at the top will be a minimize player button. 5, On the player screen, the controls you will fine will depend on the type of channel you are playing. Music Channels. Most music channels have different DJs hosting their own show. As you swipe across the player screen, it will list the current show and the time frame of that show. After that you will find just a time listed. If it is the current time, then you are listening live. But the time listed will be within the time frame of the show. On the Player screen, you can rewind / fast forward within the time frame of the show, and you can even restart the show. For example, I started a music channel at 9 Am. The time frame of the show was from 7 Am to 11 Am. The current time was listed because I was listening live. I then hit the restart button, and it instantly started playing the show at the beginning. I then checked the time on the player and it said, 7 AM. That is because that show started at 7, and I just went back to the beginning. If you go to the very bottom of the player screen you will find a view more menu button. In here you can set a reminder for that show, turn a sleep timer on, or send feedback. If you swipe left going back up the screen you will find: A go live button. Remember I restarted the show, but if I hit the Go Live button, it will instantly jump me back to what is currently playing live on that channel. Restart button, this restarts the show. If it is a DJ / show that you like, but came in on the middle of it, then you might want to restart it and listen to it in its entirety. Rewind, play, fastward buttons, These are your common buttons. When playing, the play button becomes a pause button. And you can use the 2 finger double tap to stop / restart playing a channel. Please note: If you pause a channel, then restart it, then it will just continue playing where it left off. in order to restart it where it is currently, then you will have to choose the Go Live button. Sports games and Talk Shows. With Sports Games and Talk Shows, the Playing screen has an additional control that I really like. Just like in Podcast, for Sports games and Talk Shows, it divides things up into chapters. So you can jump around however you like, up to what is being playing live. The only difference is that instead of chapters, they call them segments. For example, in a baseball game, lets say that you were able to listen to the first 3 innings, but had to go do something, and when you were done, the game was in the 6th or 7th inning. No problem. You can just go to this segment control, it will list all of the innings of the game. You just go to the inning where you left off and double tap. You will then be starting at that point. In all sporting events, you can jump around as long as the event is on air. But you are not able to play a sporting event after it is over. Now for talk shows you can jump the same way, but in addition, they save at least the last five shows, so you can listen to any of them on demand. You can even download them if you want. To access the Segment control. It is normally near the top of the player screen, but just swipe until you hear, view segments. If you double tap that, then a screen will pop up with all of the different segments that you can choose to jump to. Again, this is a great feature. Other than a couple of those buttons not be labeled sometimes, I find the rest of the app totally accessible and easy to use. I hope this has been helpful. Chris -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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