Label buttons - one more time

[Leo Franchi]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
>> 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.

I agree very much with this point. Various times i've wanted to quit
amarok (I have "resume playing on startup" on) and have it *not* start
playing a song. But as there is no way to "reset" amarok right now in
the toolbar, i've  been forced to do various hackish things so that
the song doesn't resume.

Having some way to "reset" the playing track I think is important.

leo


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