Shutdown progress bar

[Oppaunke]

How about a progress bar which indicates the shutdown process?

I would recommend this, because it is kind of annoying to double- or triplecheck the effect of the long-pressed PLAY button on my iPod nano. After the keylock has been released, it always takes a while (or a change in volume) to let the iPod react to any keypress at all.

So whenever one wants to shutdown the iPod, one has to stare at the display for a number of seconds until the words "shutting down" finally appear.

Instead of this I'd love the idea of a progress bar that appears when the PLAY button is pressed longer than let's say 0.3 sec, fades out the music for 2 to 4 secs and then shuts down asap (i.e. wait for HDD-models' disc activity etc). While the progress bar grows (and the music fades out simultaneously) one should be able to interrupt the procedure by releasing the PLAY button (and fading back to the original volume).

Okay, this was sort of hard to describe, but I can't imagine anyone who could hate this idea :-)

[yapper]

I'm not sure how much better having to look to see a progress bar is, compared to looking for the 'Shutting Down' message.

[Llorean]

The "Shutting Down" message is when shutdown *starts*. A progress bar wouldn't work, as the player isn't shutting down until that point. A shorter hold of Play/Pause on iPods stops playback, and your progress bar would essentially remove this function entirely. If it didn't then it'd have to start at the same time we just display the splash anyway.

[dreamlayers]

How about an instant shutdown method such as maybe turning on hold while a particular button is pushed?

[Oppaunke]

Llorean: All right, I didn't take the STOP function under consideration. But anyway, let's forget the fadeout and just visualize there's more to come after holding the button for 4 secs!
So, all timing would stay the same, just a "countdown" progress bar to add to the ui.

Reason for all this:
Mainly due to CPU load the iPod nano doesn't always react to key hits immediately. Sometimes it does, but sometimes not (especially skipping nearly doesn't work at all). That is not only the case with .mpc files although they eat up significantly less CPU than .ogg or .mp3

[JdGordon]

How about an instant shutdown method such as maybe turning on hold while a particular button is pushed?

not a chance... but there is a patch on the tracker which adds the shutdown option to the main menu which I wouldnt object to being commited