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

Sorry again. Just after I hit "send", I noticed that I had forgotten the third 
way to start from the beginning: Clicking the progress bar. While this is 
probably the easiest way to do it, it still has the problem that the user has 
to click the exact zero point of the bar which is a much smaller target than a 
separate button.  Plus: The user has to click both the progress bar and the 
play button to start playing from the beginning.

Regards,
Thomas