2009/6/28 Paul Louden <[email protected]>
> Al Le wrote: > >> >> I'd also say it should go to WPS in that situation. "Repeat" refers to the >> continuous operation IMO. If the player is powered off, it's no "repeat" >> anymore. If the start screen is set to WPS that means (for me at least) that >> the user would like to (automatically) hear music after power on. This patch >> would enable that in 99.9% of cases (0.1% being the case of the first >> installation of Rockbox -- there is no playlist then :-). >> > > On the other hand, if "repeat" is set to "no" that means "I want the music > to stop after we reach the end of the playlist and not start until I > manually resume playback or select a new song." Shutdowns can happen without > user intervention (idle timeout) and booting up to playback can cause quite > a disturbance if attached to speakers when the user knew it was "stopped" > and the playlist complete when they shut down. > > There's a difference between booting up and resuming a playlist > in-progress, and booting up and starting a playlist that had ended. > > I'm just saying, a resume on boot when playback had "ended" from the user's > perception could cause a nasty shock, and even hearing damage if they've > moved from speakers to headphones or similar. > > Oh shit... me and Paul agreeing twice in one weekend!? yes, music should not restart on boot if the playlist ended...
