Do not resume playing after power on

[danadam]

Hi

I want a simple thing - after power on:

• show "Playing" or previous screen
• have the playback paused or at the previous state

Or simpler, when I pause the playback (on "Playing" screen) and the player powers off (because idle), then when I power it on I want to be back on "Playing" screen with the playback paused.

So I configured Start Screen to "Previous Screen", but it doesn't work exactly how I would want:

• if I power off on "Playing" screen, it powers on on "Playing" screen (good) but always starts playing (bad)
• if I power off on some other screen, it powers on paused (good) but not on "Playing" screen (bad)

What can I do?

Model: Sansa Clip+

[saratoga]

I could be wrong but I don't think that is implemented.

[johnb]

There was a similar request recently on forum. I believe Bilgus gave some anwers.

Why don't you choose Recent Bookmarks as your start screen?

[danadam]

Why I want it that way:

• It is easy to accidentally turn Clip+ on, so I want it to be paused because then it will power off itself thanks to idle settings
• At the same time I want to be able to start playback with one click after power on. Preferably using one of the "big" keys.

I can almost make it work like I want if I configure "Start Screen" to "Main Menu". Then, after power on I can press Home button and it takes me to "Playing" screen and starts playback. But Home is a "small" button. I guess I can settle with this if nothing better comes up.

Why don't you choose Recent Bookmarks as your start screen?

Do I need to configure something additionally? Because atm it shows "Bookmark Empty" and goes to the main menu.

[Bilgus]

See: Automatic playback on startup
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51912.0.html

This post specifically: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51912.msg240310.html#msg240310

[gomezz]

I can almost make it work like I want if I configure "Start Screen" to "Main Menu". Then, after power on I can press Home button and it takes me to "Playing" screen and starts playback. But Home is a "small" button. I guess I can settle with this if nothing better comes up

This is how I have my Clip+ set up.  One thing I have done is mod the Play/Pause button by gluing a blob of plastic (the tip of a biro pen clip) to it to make it easy to find and use by touch alone.  It then also makes it easy to find the Home button between that and the screen slight off to the left.  I use a silicone cover which tidies up the appearance.

[danadam]

This post specifically: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51912.msg240310.html#msg240310

Yep, that works.
Thanks!

[Bilgus]

I added this functionality in a patch on gerrit
http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/#/c/1675/

Needs testing..