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[Sansa Clip+] A better shortcut to return to WPS
Llorean:
Long home on its own already does something else. So it's not exactly the same outcome, at all.
JdGordon:
would you just bloody take my word for it that what you propose isnt possible without quite a bit of work? you know, seen as I bloody write the action handling system?
Llorean:
I didn't deny that it might take quite a bit of work. All I suggested was that it might be worth considering despite that for the benefits. Perhaps.
It's not my fault you didn't read the thread to the point where someone already suggested just using long home, and we already covered that it's already in use. You don't need to get upset at me for it.
JdGordon:
sure, its been considered. And if someone really wanted to implement it I'd help them, but in the absense of volanteers I can confidently say it wont happen. You're of course welcome to prove me wrong.
pabouk:
--- Quote from: Llorean on September 02, 2011, 01:59:11 PM ---Why do you need to bookmark while cycling? I mean, what's the situation where you'd want to stop playback, and then resume it, without looking at the player?
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Maybe it is not the most common usage of Rockbox: I listen to podcasts. Sometimes I have to stop/pause playback and later resume where I stopped. I do this several times a day in many situations and I think to be able to stop/resume using a single hand without looking at the display is very important and convenient.
--- Quote from: Llorean ---The H100 has an extra button to spare for this.
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Not really. H100 has "extra button" A-B while Sansa Clip+ has "extra button" HOME.
--- Quote from: Llorean ---It doesn't really make sense for a button labeled "Home" to take you to the WPS in the first place. There's nothing about the button that would indicate it does this, and the common Rockbox function for the menu button is the alternating behaviour. To some degree it's beneficial to have button functions stay the same between devices. If you have an iPod and then get a Clip+, you know that the "Home" button does what the "Menu" button on the iPod did, and there's little more to learn about the issue.
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OK, fair enough. I did not know about the effort of Rockbox to map special buttons (like HOME) to actions of a similar meaning. As far as I know on H100 there was not the function the HOME button on Clip+ offers. Contrary the return to WPS/resume playback function on H100 was very useful for me.
--- Quote from: Llorean ---There's a lot of complications with having a button that, when pressed from some screens resumes playback, and when pressed from others does not, since it makes it easier to accidentally resume when you may not want to. The short->long combo, much like the current one, will always resume (from screens that can be resumed from) and so isn't as prone to accidental behaviour.
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OK, I agree.
--- Quote from: Llorean ---Pause allows you to do things like pause, then seek to a specific location, to queue something up inaudibly. This simply isn't possible while stopped. The reason Pause and Stop both exist is that they really are functionally different beyond simply the resume time.
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OK, I just do not need to set the player to exact location in the paused state. :)
--- Quote from: torne on September 02, 2011, 03:28:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: pabouk on September 02, 2011, 08:01:24 AM ---(I cannot use pause as it does not store bookmark when the player turns off automatically after a delay.)
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This behaviour is a bug, which should have been fixed some time ago (see FS#11493). Is it definitely still not saving the bookmark on idle poweroff for you, with a current build?
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It works. Great! Even bookmark is created if the player powers off during pause. I just did not notice that the bug was repaired because I simply gave up using pause. Now I can start to use it again. Thank you. :D
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