Changing songs during navigation without interrupting nav -- is this possible?

[pastrygirl]

I run the Car Dock app, and use Navigation through it. If I then want to play some music, I go back to the main Car Dock page and start the player... then when I go back to Navigation, I have to start over. It doesn't pick up where it left off. Same thing if I want to change tracks in the middle of navigating.

Is there a good workaround for this? I've been stumbling with QuickDesk and Power Strip, to no avail. I can't get my search button to register anything other than voice search, even with the Button Shortcut app. Double-home doesn't work with QuickDesk when I'm running Car Dock; it just registers my default double-home action. Single home works OK, but then I have trouble exiting Car Dock -- I end up in an infinite loop of Car Dock and Quick Desk. (And I lose my single-home click action, which is to pull down the hidden notification bar.)

I looked at the Car Dock v2 app, but want my background to be black; can't figure out how to do that. My usual background is too fussy for the car and big icons.

Help?

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[pastrygirl]

Anyone?

I managed to get Button Shortcut to use my camera button to launch QuickDesk, so that works OK... but it seems like such a clunky solution. What if I need to make a call while navigating? Would I have to restart the navigation? There must be a way to do this without needing several apps, right?

[pastrygirl]

Is this just a really dumb question...?

[smalltowngirl13]

Is this just a really dumb question...?

Not a dumb question, I'd like to know to. ;-)

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[nojogray]

Definitely not a dumb question... you just stumped us.

[nojogray]

I found a 90% solution. After you change the song, navigation should be tuning in the background. Poul down your notification bar and select the navigation already in progress. Let me know of that helped.

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[pastrygirl]

LOL -- glad to know it's not just me!

The current nav doesn't show up in my notification bar once I back out of nav to get to the music controls... It disappears as soon as I press the back button.

[nojogray]

Well, shoot. I think you are SOL

[pastrygirl]

I've been working with QuickDesk (via my camera button) and it's actually not bad. I'll stick with that until a better solution comes along.

Thanks anyway!

[pastrygirl]

My camera button stopped working for launching QuickDesk, so I had to figure something else out. Turns out the music player shows up in the notification bar, so I can pull it down while navigating. Still kinda kludgy as it requires more attention than I care to give while driving, but it works.

(Oh, and my camera button reassignment stopped working because I had installed Vignette.)