Playing audio on iOS - how do I get to the "now playing" screen?

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Playing audio on iOS - how do I get to the "now playing" screen?

Postby tight_zone » 02 Jun 2022 09:33

the screen in question: https://imgur.com/a/Z3NY1ju

I am trying to play audio files on my ios device. Right now the only way I know how to get to the pictured screen is:

1. ⁠Make sure the vlc app is closed, and not running in the background
2. ⁠Long press an audio file from the "files" app
3. ⁠Select "share" and share to the vlc app
4. ⁠The vlc app will open to this screen :D

The problem is, when the app is already open and I try to play another audio file I get stuck on the main screen, with apparently no way to get back to the screen pictured above where i can manually seek to different parts of the audio file: https://imgur.com/a/RN4Am3W

Right now my workaround is to seek from the lock screen, and locking my phone to seek to another part of the track makes me very sad :cry: . I've beaten my head against the wall trying to get to this screen, and I'm hoping someone here knows how to do it. Thank you in advance! Let me know if I can provide any more helpful context.

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Re: Playing audio on iOS - how do I get to the "now playing" screen?

Postby rory648 » 06 Jun 2022 00:09

Same issue here. Been broken for a while and definitely needs a fix

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Re: Playing audio on iOS - how do I get to the "now playing" screen?

Postby tight_zone » 07 Jun 2022 01:57

Looks like there is already an open issue for it: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc- ... ssues/1172

I just posted there. Hopefully it will gain some traction.


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