While listening to songs on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you may have face the problem of changing songs by tapping the home button and then changing the song. Well this problem is now over, thanks to a new tweak being released in the Cydia store.
This tweak is called Awesome Music Controller by DrComputerIT and is available on the BigBoss for just $0.99 and for that price tag it is a very good buy. This application works on all devices that have been jailbroken on iOS 5.0 and higher. Awesome Music Controller displays a music note on the clock and helps you change the song by tapping this instead of the home-button. This is great for users who have a broken home-button (just saying =p).
In short, Awesome Music Controller Play/Change songs without using the home button. When this tweak is installed a new setting can be found in the Settings.app to configure. In Settings.app you will see that AwesomeMCSettings has been added which will give you the option to enable the music note or disable it.
Additionally, Awesome Music Controller recently got updated to 1.0.0-28 which fixes many bugs and enhanced the now playing notification banner which looks similar to the missed call and message alerts. While using your iPhone or any other Apple device you can also change songs using this now playing banner.
*NOTE: For this tweak to work you need to have Music.app opened in the background.
You will need to jailbreak your device in order to install this tweak. To jailbreak your device on iOS 5.1, please follow our complete step-by-step guide posted here. Please note that iOS 5.1 is currently available as a tethered jailbreak which means that you will have to boot tethered everytime you reboot your device.
Steps to get and use it:
1. Download and Install the tweak from the BigBoss repository for the aforementioned price.
2. After the installation is complete, go to the Settings.app and enable the tweak.
3. Go to Activator.app and enable the gesture with which you want to use it.
4. You are ready to use the app with it’s full potential.
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