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sduck:

--- Quote from: Llorean on March 11, 2007, 10:04:08 PM ---It returns to the last place you called the WPS from, not just "The Menu List" as you put it.

If you run a playlist or file from the filetree, when playback ends you'll be there. If you are in the WPS, go to the menus, and then call the WPS from the menus, you'll end up in the menus when it leaves.

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No it doesn't, at least when I wrote that. This is on an iriver ihp140, and it's a build from last week I think. When the playlist ends (not stopping it, when it ends). if it's started from the files view, it exits to the menu list. I was informed by one of the developers that this is the new behavior, agreed upon in irc, but I don't like it, and am just trying to see if anyone doesn't like it. Personally I think it stinks actually - I thought I could get used to it, but it's turning out to be a major pain in the ass for me.

pondlife:
I suggest you update - it's not meant to do that and it doesn't on the current build, unless you'd recently pressed the MENU button (so had manually called up the menu since you were last in the browser).

pondlife

sduck:
Thanks for the advice - you've made my day actually! I was pretty sure what I was experiencing was "wrong" behavior - I'll try a new build and see how it works.

Edit - I've now installed and tried the latest build, and it's still not doing what I want, but I may not have been completely clear about what I'm looking for. In the latest build, start playing the first file in a folder from folder view, it plays all the tracks in that folder, then exits back to that same folder view - very good, that was broken in a previous build that I had. However, if you turn off the unit anywhere during that playing cycle, and have it set to resume playing upon restart, when you get to the end of the last track (end of the playlist), it exits to the menu list view, instead of the folder view. It used to exit to the folder view in this situation.

Just so you don't think I'm crazy, here's why I don't like this behavior, and how I use my mp3 player. I use my mp3 player mainly in my car while driving arround town to gigs or whatever - I'm a professional musician, and throw tons of rips of cd's onto my iriver, each stored seperately in individual folders,and after listening to most (9 out of 10) of these cd's,  I want to immediately delete that folder (to make room for new stuff), or move it to one of my permanent storage folders. Because I'm driving in irregular bursts, there's bound to be lots of stopping and restarting of the mp3 player, and the resume playback feature and bookmarking is very nice. With the old behavior, if I wanted to do any of this folder maintanace immediately after the tracks had all been played, it was no problem - just 3-5 clicks on the nav button, and the folder was deleted or moved. Now, I've got to either remember what the folder was called, and renavigate to it, which is nearly impossible to do safely while driving, or just try to remember, which is an uphill battle at my age. So you see, adding an option for the screen to go to when a playlist ends would be a great idea. And possibly save my life!

Thanks for listening.

AlexP:

--- Quote from: sduck on March 16, 2007, 08:03:35 PM ---However, if you turn off the unit anywhere during that playing cycle, and have it set to resume playing upon restart,

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It's if you stop and resume at all.  I often turn off during an album, turn back on later and press play to resume.  At the end of the playlist, you are returned to where you resumed from, i.e. what screen you were in when you pressed play, not in the directory you really launched playback from.

I can see why it is doing this, rockbox think you launched playback from where you resumed from, but it is really really annoying.  I shouldn't have to navigate to the folder where the music I am listening to is in order to resume so I am then put into that folder when playback ends, instead of the main menu or wherever I resumed from.

sduck:
You can set the thing to automatically resume playing - all you need to do is hit the play button once, and it will resume where you left off. One button convenience! Except for my nitpicky little needs, of course... ;D

Settings->General Setting>System>Start Screen to "resume playback".

For the time being, I've installed an older (20070207) version of rb, and it works the way I want it to. I'll continue to try newer versions, maybe the developers will fix this eventually.

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