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One press configurable skip

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Confuseling:
I've seen some discussion of this (or something similar) before, so apologies if this is 'one of those subjects'. I've had a little search, but couldn't find much recently... Here is an older thread for reference, anyway.

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=11922.0

I use my player (sansa clip+) exclusively to listen to podcasts, and for me a killer feature would be to lose concentration for a few moments, and be able to click one button to skip back a fixed amount. It seems some people want to skip forwards as well, or skip folders.

Obviously having access to all of these features at once is difficult from a UI perspective - unless you want to go down the fully configurable buttons route, and it seems you don't.

I propose having a menu option that allows you to configure what tapping downwards (which would be the one you hold to get to playlists, assuming it's wired differently for different players...) does - say between nothing / skip back X seconds / skip forwards X seconds. Other options always possible later.

It's not ideal from a 'power user all options always available' perspective, but it doesn't alter / override the current UI in any significant way, and I (perhaps naively) suspect it wouldn't be that hard to code. I know featureitis is to be avoided, but this would *immensely* enhance the usability of this firmware for at least some users.

Thanks for reading... (P.S. it's already looking awesome on the Clip+! Congrats!)

torne:
There is already a configurable skip length: http://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-sansaclip/rockbox-buildch7.html#x10-1240007.12

Confuseling:
Ah! Missed that one completely, sorry.  :P

It does prevent you from skipping tracks if you set that, so the possibility to designate a separate button to skip back would be of *some* use.

Just nowhere near as much use - and what's there already is perfectly good for my needs.

Thanks.

torne:
You could probably put this setting on the quickscreen so you could turn it on and off more easily, too?

Having a configurable button for it is unlikely to gain much interest :)

Confuseling:
Understood. I think it's time I read the rest of the manual. I'm new to MP3 players, not just Rockbox, so it's all rather confusing...  :)

Thanks.

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