Skip to next track in media player starts playback when paused

asked 2015-09-30 12:24:15 +0300

Mohjive gravatar image

updated 2015-09-30 13:44:40 +0300

When media is paused and I tap next track on cover or in player the playback is started. I would expect the playback to stay paused until I tap play. This happens in both the native media player and in cutespot.

I'd rather have the playback to wait for me to tap play, when I have paused playback, before it starts again. Since there are other media players swinging both ways this could be made a configurable option instead.

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You can argue that this is a feature request and you can argue that this should be configurable too. The current behaviour matches that of every other player I know and what you describe -at least in my experience- is odd.

gabriel ( 2015-09-30 12:47:02 +0300 )edit

@gabriel: ok, so I've tested some apps I had available. Spotify and Winamp do start playback, but not itunes nor music for osx and being from an older generation I can vouch for that all cassette, CD and MD players I've owned did not start playback when I skipped or fast forwarded.

I think it has to do with expectations. I could guess that there are more users thinking "why did it start playing?" than "nice, it started playing!" with the current implementation.

I also think it's worse to have "why did it start playing when I skipped a track" for the current implementation than "why didn't it start playing when I skipped a track" with the implementation I suggest. With the former I might have to tap pause with every skip while the latter only has to tap play when the right song is active.

Mohjive ( 2015-09-30 13:29:52 +0300 )edit

Mohjive: I had plenty of CD players and one cassette player that could skip tracks that played straight away, so this is very subjective. While I'm not an Apple fan, I agree with their implementation to be the de facto one, but again that's my opinion. Happy if this is rephrased as a feature request and optional for people to turn it one way or the other.

gabriel ( 2015-09-30 13:39:03 +0300 )edit

@gabriel: I'm not talking about skipping when playing, but when I have actively paused playback I don't expect it to start again, when I skip a track. Your players did that?

But I do think you have right that it should be a setting, so I'll rephrase it as a feature request.

Mohjive ( 2015-09-30 13:41:57 +0300 )edit

Mohjive: as far as I can remember, if you did pause and then skip, the player would play again.

gabriel ( 2015-09-30 13:47:55 +0300 )edit