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Semi Hold mode?

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bobdotexe:
I dislike hold mode because if you want to hear what some one has to say;
and not miss the "good part" of a song you have to un-hold it and back out of any sub menu you happen to be in at the time, and then pause;

and when not in hold mode I find myself trying to pause (or skip a song) when the player is in my pocket, and it wont pause;  so I take the player out of my pocket to find I'm in some playback mode menu changing settings  :o

I propose a Semi-Hold mode where the player stays in the WPS;
and only alows you to change pause or change track (if button is held)
to prevent roaming, through menus; and  to help me keep my sanity.

Llorean:
Why not put it back in the WPS before putting it on hold, so that "un-hold it and back out of any sub menu you happen to be in at the time" simplifies to simply "un-hold it"?

Also, as a tip - if you're in menus, the "resume playback" button takes you back to the WPS. This is also on most players also the pause button, so if one press of "pause" doesn't pause playback, usually the second one will.

Kugelcooker:
10/10 idea, something i've always wanted - BUT re your proposition of semi-hold allowing track skips - idk about you but when i ever put my player into hold the main reason is to prevent track skipping. Pause would be... brilliant, though. as far as i know no other firmware allows for that.
P.S. my player's a Iriver H10, with bulging track skip buttons... ppl with different players could have different prefernces - It'd be interesting to hear what others have to say

AlexP:
Hold is hold and should function as hold.

Yotto:
I turn on "Pause On Headphone Unplug" and use it all the time to pause. On my iPod, it's far easier than actually finding pause when its in my armband. I don't even use hold all that often, but it'd work fine for that too.

And I agree with AlexP. I put hold on when I don't want any controls to do anything. If it allowed anything at all, it wouldn't be functioning correctly.

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