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Pause & adjust volume when locked?

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gellfex:
I can't seem to find any reference to this feature ever being considered, I asked about it last year in "general". It was one of the best ideas on the much loved Motorola M25 and some of the Rio's.  It keeps the volume operational, and makes ALL the buttons a "pause" buttons when the lock is on. No more fumbling for a slide and pause when someone walks up to you talking, hoping you don't accidentally hit the forward button instead. Basically no more accidentally losing your place EVER! That particularly sucks when you're listening to podcasts or audiobooks.

If this isn't possible due to the lock slide simply disabling the buttons, what about a remapped mode with volume operational, and ALL the buttons "pause" buttons? It would need some mode gateway in and out like a sustained press of multiple buttons.

Thanks for any consideration, it seems like spoken word listeners are at the back of the features list from OEM's. The anythingbutipod audiobook forum is a sad unsatisfied place.

JdGordon:
I can't see how this could be useful. the point of the hold switch is to stop accidental presses stuffing up playback. With this enabled you woulod get plenty of accidental pause/restarts and it would drive a calm person mad...
Also, on some targets I believe the hold switch actually disables buttons

cool_walking_:

--- Quote from: gellfex on November 23, 2008, 04:12:55 PM ---makes ALL the buttons a "pause" buttons when the lock is on. No more fumbling for a slide and pause when someone walks up to you talking, hoping you don't accidentally hit the forward button instead.
--- End quote ---

I personally never had problems pressing the right buttons, but an alternative is to use the "pause on headphone unplug" feature and unplug the headphones when you want to talk to people.

gellfex:
Thanks for your replies, but I'm not the only M25 user who loves this feature! It made the M25 and similar Rio's a favorite of audiobook listeners. Jumping a song isn't usually considered a PITA by music listeners.

Member here Nate! said "My old Rio S50 and Nitrus had this functionality.  It was quite useful and configurable.  Mostly I used it to just turn the volume up or down.  It's one of those things that are nice to have.  The times I really miss this feature is when listening with in-ear buds and someone comes up and starts talking to you.  With it locked, you can just hit mute."

My Rockbox is an e260 and the pause button is quite close to the others. My M25 player is usually dangling from my belt, and occasionally is paused accidentally, but I find that far less annoying than losing my place or fumbling when the phone rings.

I didn't know about the pause on unplug feature, and that certainly is one way to do it, but abandons the volume adjust which is also handy. I work with tools and it's nice to easily adjust the volume to appropriate levels without also risking losing my place with a slip of the finger.

I guess if there's no interest in implementing this I'll be using the unplug feature on the sansa when my M25's all die at last. They're pretty tough but not immortal.  BTW, the one other feature that makes them a treasure is they take AAA's, an extreme rarity these days.

JdGordon:
The e200 doesnt have pause-on-headphone removal (only ipods and gigabeats iirc).

Anyway, the usual advice works... patches are always welcome, and some are even accepted... I have a feeling that the hold switch on the e200 actually disables the button inputs so you need to tihnk of a way to switch modes...

edit: no the e200 can read button presses while hold is on so a patch for this could be simple...

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