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Play pauses during FFWD or REW .... should it?
Llorean:
Rockbox seeks much quicker than the iRiver firmware.
In the time it takes you to hear the 1/2 second of audio, either the seeking needs to stop while it's playing so that you can listen to that part of the audio, or your seek may have moved 4 or 5 minutes on (in very long files, which are the sort you tend to need seeking for).
If you want to hear the part of the audio at a given point, why not seek, then release, then seek, then release?
yapper:
I can see that audio books might be a special case, but my comments were based on music playback.
Some of the OFs implement seek in the way I described so it's not just me (or is it?). It also seems a fairly fundamental choice to force on users, given so many other actions are customisable in Rockbox. :) Mmmmm add more options to the Settings menus ;)
Llorean:
1) Option bloat is bad, especially since it includes code bloat and there are benefits to keeping the binary size slim, and the code easy for people to use (not that it is necessarily, especially in playback).
2) How often do you need to seek in a 3 minute file? I would imagine the majority of cases that seeking is used are in longer files.
Even then, in any file you're perfectly capable of releasing the seek button to hear where you are before resuming, and in ANY file, playing back parts of the file while seeking would either result in inaccuracy, or very, very slow seeking relative to what can be done now.
yapper:
My comment about more options was tongue-in-cheek :)
A quick test on seek times on a 90 min mp3 with/without 1x playback during the seek shows very comparable times (approx 20 secs on a 2G iPod). I can't comment on accuracy losses.
Mikerman:
In response to some of the above, audible seeking is extremely helpful in studying music and foreign languages, which often involves just-played portions of a file. I would not consider audible seeking as bloat. Again, I would compare it to VCD/DVD playback with and without a picture.
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