Label buttons - one more time

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> Am Sunday 14 February 2010 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
> > with some coworkers about this a while back, who pointed out to me that
> > the Play/Pause button in iTunes is very inconsistent with different
> 
> This is known (told to be pointed at fosdem) and on the TODO list.
> 
> Basically some streams simply can't resume.
> In this case the button should indicate "STOP" while playing, not "PAUSE"
> 
> This is (imho) far better than presenting a Pause button that does either
> nothing or not what it suggests (but in fact Stops, so you cannot resume)
> 
> What's required (from my side / to figure) is how to know about this
> capability (afaik this only affects streams, but e.g. NOT last.fm and
> probably some others)
> 
> Cheers

Sorry for replying so late, I didn't have the chance to check my mails since 
Friday.

There is still one usecase for a stop-button that makes sense even today: 
1. I am listening to a track. 
2. I am leaving my computer for a while.
3. When I return, I don't want to continue the track from where I left because 
I can't "get into the song" easily when starting again in the middle.

This is when I use the stop button in order to start the track from the 
beginning when I return. In fact, I do this pretty much every time I leave the 
computer (or just stop the music) for more than a few minutes, and I'm not 
sure if I'm the only one who does that). Of course I could skip back and forth 
again to start from the beginning or double-click the track on the playlist, 
but the first way is not really elegant and the second one needs interaction 
with the playlist - both of them are not optimal from my point of view.
So the stop button isn't just a relic form the past. It just serves a 
different purpose than it did with mechanical devices.

That does not mean there HAS to be a button with a square on it. I just want 
to remind everyone that there should be an easy way to reset the current 
position in a track to zero.

Regards,
Thomas