IPhone – n app that allows an iPhone-to-iPhone local network call with shared music

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My wife and I started going to a gym recently. We each have our own separate workouts and we listen to music through our earbuds. We realized though that this has reduced our evening chat time, so I had this idea to "call" each other to idly (verbally) chat during our separate workouts at the gym. And I was wondering if it was possible for us to listen to the same music as we chat. I've tried a bunch of different searches, but the best I can figure is that we can make an actual phone call and listen to our own separate music. We have unlimited plans, so that's a possibility, but I think it would really be nice if we were listening to the same music (with independent volume control, i.e. voice versus music). Is there an app that will do this, ideally just over a local network (as opposed to making a call that routes through a cell phone tower or some internet service)?

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Short answer no. I found a link to an article that explains this.

Playing music or any other audio while on a phone call is easy:

While on an active phone call, tap the Home button to get to the home screen Open the Music app, find any song or podcast, and press play Return to the phone call screen by tapping the green titlebar Music (or any audio) plays immediately, but instead of outputting through the external speakers, it will be played through the ear speaker. This prevents the music from being piped through to the other end of the phone, and that means the other end will never know you’re jamming to Milli Vanilli to make it through their tortuously boring phone calls and wait times.

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Finder by default will show shared folders for most services.

For an more in depth look at what a machine is running you can always port scan the heck out of it. Then connecting is as easy as memorizing proper instructions over telnet or plugging into Finders 'Connect to Server' dialog.

nmap (really sudo nmap) is one of the fastest, most informative port scanning tools out there. It spanks the pants off any GUI for speed and service comprehension. Try something like the the following.

# [target ip] = Ip of the host to scan
sudo nmap -PN -n -sV --version-all [target ip]

IPhone Music Playing App That Uses Album Artist

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Per @ghoppe;

When using the iPod app in list view (list view = the view with selections for your chosen category), the "More …" category on the very bottom right hand side has a few additional options, name there is "Compilations" view.

This view is identical to Album view, except it only shows albums that have two or more unique artists in it.

If this is a view you use often, you could put it on the category bar so it's quick/easy to get to. Perhaps a customization like: "Artist - Compilations - Songs - Videos - More …"

This of course does nothing to prevent seeing compilations when in an Artist entry.

(More is required and cannot be replaced nor moved.)

My suggestion was to default your browsing habits to using Album view instead. Instead of picking a song by an artist, you will always see a track-ordered list of songs after picking an album.

There's also the search box you can use to type in an artist/album, and pick the relevant view you want from it (scroll to the top of any view, or if you're already at the top swipe down once more to pull the top down, and the search box will be revealed).

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