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Rewind across tracks

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mycroft:
Can we have a feature (optional?) that allows rewinding across tracks? I use Rockbox almost exclusively for listening to audiobooks when driving, walking, etc. When the inevitable distraction occurs, or when restarting after a break, it is often necessary to rewind 10, 20, or more seconds to catch the thread of the narrative. In the current version of Rockbox, if the break happens to be in the first 10-20 seconds of a track, one cannot rewind through the desired time span. So then it is necessary to skip to the beginning of the previous track and then either listen or fast forward through the whole track (which may be several minutes long) to catch the last 10 seconds. Perhaps there could be an option to let the rewind function simply ignore track boundaries?

Chronon:
I think that the behavior of the "Skip length" feature could/should be modified so that skipping past track boundary in reverse does not skip to the beginning of the previous track.

mycroft:
That could work, but better would be to allow a simple rewind across the track boundary so that the "skip length" could be left set to "skip track" for when one needs to search quickly through a long series of tracks for a particular chapter or section of a narrative.

Chronon:
True. 

pabouk:
Yes, rewind across a track boundary is one of few features which Rockbox miss in comparison to "the ideal Rockbox"  :)

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