[Android] [TROLL] Audio GUI: should we keep the stop button?

[Adrien Maglo]

On 17/01/2014 13:16, Edward Wang wrote:
> On 2014-01-17 07:14, Adrien Maglo <magsoft at videolan.org> wrote:
>> Is it really important to keep a reference to a paused file?
>
> I think so, yes. From all the users I've seen interacting with it, and
> with all the complaints about AudioService, I think the stop is
> absolutely essential.

I would not say that it is "absolutely essential".
I think this button comes from the ancient tape world and it tends to be 
removed in every media player.
Google play music, the Android native audio player and Winamp do not 
have a stop button. In video mode, VLC and all VLC competition I tested 
do not have a stop button.
Please have a look at a link like: 
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/584-11-best-android-music-players.html
I fail to see one stop button.

>> An other point is that the stop button currently empties the play
>> list. The users may feel annoyed by this if they press it by mistake.
>
> It should not empty the playlist; if it does, it is a bug currently. For
> example, on VLC desktop when we click the stop button, our playlist does
> not magically disappear.

Malte's design has not been though to integrate a stop button.
Let's say, you press stop. The media player disappears but the play list 
is kept as you wish. How do you recover the play list once you are in 
the audio browser?

Best regards,


-- 
MagSoft