Skip to next track even when keys are locked

[wujek]

First things first - thanks for Rockbox - it is a great piece of software, it kind of makes my internal geek happy, it makes my player much much better. Thank you.

I read the manual, tried looking for the feature in the menus and internet and came across nothing, so maybe this will indeed be a valid proposal? If not, sorry.
My girlfriend has an iPod Nano 6th gen and it has this feature when quickly pressing the power button twice while the keys are locked skips to the next track in the playlist. I find it very useful and kind of missing it in Rockbox.
Use case: I used this Nano and now my Sansa Zip Clip primarily for sports (running, inline skates - basically, cardio). I just go to a directory and choose 'shuffle all', lock the keys and just start the workout. If, during the workout, I don't feel like listening to a particular song (because it is too slow, too fast, got fed up with it for a while, whatever), with the Nano I could just skip to the next one. I don't know how to do it with Rockbox on my Sansa, and the only workaround include: 1. just let the track finish normally 2. grab the player fiddle with it and skip. The former is no good as I obviously want to skip the track; the latter requires too much attention (look at the screen, press too many buttons too many times).
Do you think this would be possible to implement? Or is there already something like this built in and I just missed it?

wujek

[wujek]

Right, I have just found this:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,45476.0.html
Which also proposes the feature and more, by using the vol up/down buttons while locked. Would be nice to have.

[pamaury]

Hi,
the answer will pretty much be the same: except if everyone agrees, this is unlikely to get accepted because it kind of goes against the very principle of lock. Furthermore, some people will want volume control, some playback control, etc. I am not excluding the possibility of a very clean implementation of it with a setting but that requires quite some work.
I already provided a patch here http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/760/ to show how one can allow keys to be used in lock mode (the code maps volume keys to volume control). It it pretty easy to modify it to do track control.