Combining sleep cyle and ipod or how I tricked my iphone into multitasking

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Sleep cylce is an iphone app that's topping the charts in itunes at the moment. I heard al lot about it from my friends so I decided to give it a try! I didn't realize however that I have a bit of a ritual when i fall asleep. That is I usually listen to music or an audiobook when I fall asleep. Currently that's not a feature Sleep cycle supports and given that I rather listen to the ipod app than have insight in my sleeping patterns I havn't used sleep cycle once..

Today I decided to have a look at the sleep cycle site to see if I could post a feature request. To my delight the faq already stated they are working on it: "Planned in future versions: Listen to music or audio books when going to sleep". So that's great, but then I suddenly realized that it's already possible to trick the iphone and sleep cylce into this! :D

  1. enable ipod controls (settings > general > home > ipod controls > on)
  2. go to the clock app, set a timer and use it to "Sleep iPod" when it elapses (you don't wan't to have yourself brainwashed all night ;)
  3. start your ipod music or audio book
  4. start sleep cycle and WHILE it's booting double tap the home button!  <-- this is the trick part
  5. a window with ipod controls pops up now, wait for the app to completely boot up and stop the music
  6. now you can click the play icon in the pop up window, the music starts playing. Close the pop up and use sleep cylce!

It's great to outsmart your iphone ;)