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jaylee:
Foobar2000 has a menu item called "Stop after current", which simply stops playback when the currently playing track ends.
I wonder whether a DAP needs this feature...

AlexP:
I don't know, does it?

sideral:
My Squeezebox players have this feature as well, and I've used it numerous times (for example when leaving the house or when going to sleep). I indeed have been noting Rockbox's lack of this feature myself, but so far my degree of suffering hasn't been big enough to care to implement it.

Chronon:
As a workaround, you could just keep a track of silence and choose to "Play next".

Llorean:
Wouldn't it make more sense, when going to sleep, to have a playlist that stops some generic time in the future (say, 30 minutes, or 7 songs) rather than "at the end of this song?"

I find I rarely know exactly when I'm going to fall asleep once I'm in bed.

I also don't get the usefulness when leaving the house. If you can do that, can't you just press stop? And if you want it to keep playing for a little while after you leave, why again exactly one song?

I can see a "pause at the end of this track" feature as being useful, for example, when doing sound effects or other stuff for a performance, or for when practicing something and having it repeat but wanting it to pause each time so that you're not finding yourself waiting on spinups / buffers or whatnot. But I'm not really sure I get the full "stop" for this track, rather than a regular end of playlist stop.

Maybe if we knew the use cases (and in the case of the ones expressed already, the reasons why "stop at the end of this track" is expected to be the best solution) to see if maybe there's something that makes more sense, or an existing feature that already addresses them?

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