bluegaspode;502395 Wrote: 
> 7.4.2 and 7.5 introduced a new 'feature' - that is - 
> 
> when an alarm goes off and you click 'alarm off' in the corresponding
> window the popup vanishes, but the audio keeps on playing
> (https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14578)
> 
> I finding this pretty unintuitive (and consider this a bug).
> I expect to have the audio off, when I stop the alarm. 
> This is the default behaviour of every other alarm clock in the world
> !
> 
> Now in the morning I have to cancel the alarm-menu and in addition need
> to press one more button to stop the audio. All this when I just woke up
> and can't find any button in a dark room (display of the radio is still
> dim, also backlit buttons are missing as we know). 
> How I able to explain THIS to my wife ?
> 
> One possible solution would be to have 3 option 'Snooze', 'Stop alarm',
> 'Continue Listening' (as of
> https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14620) - at least the
> variants are labeled correctly then.
> 
> BUT: having three options would make me need to think and look at the
> display even more in the morning. Remember: when waking up the display
> is dimmed and actually you can't read the menu-options - so I don't
> consider it good solution either:
> 
> Right now I got used to: 
> Snooze: Press the big knob
> Alarm off: Tuuuuuuurrrrn the big knob und Press.
> 
> This I can do without looking at the display and also when I'm not at
> full mind when just waking up.
> 
> 
> I wanted to know, how others see this ??
> 
> - do you know any other alarm clock, that doesn't stop the sound when
> you stop an alarm ? How is it solved there - is this the default mode or
> do they have extra buttons ?
> 
> - do you favour stopping the audio or do you prefer having the audio go
> on, when you stop the alarm ?
> 
> - could you handle three menu options in the morning ?
> 
> - How do Boom and other devices handle this (we want to stay
> consistent, don't we ?)

There should be 3 choices -- stop alarm, snooze or continue listening. 
That was the original bug.


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