GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 320047
Add the STOP button to the Library control panel as it is in the Radio control panel
Last modified: 2007-09-13 22:32:15 UTC
Distribution: Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) Package: rhythmbox Severity: enhancement Version: GNOME2.10.0 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc Synopsis: Add the STOP button to the Library control panel as it is in the Radio control panel Bugzilla-Product: rhythmbox Bugzilla-Component: Interface Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Please describe your feature request: I would like to see a STOP (stop playback) button added to the library control panel, as in, when you are simply playing local files and you want to stop the playback instead of just pausing it. This feature is available in the Radio control panel. The workaround I have been using is while a song in the Library section is playing, I switch to the Radio section, hit the stop button, then return to the Library section. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@gnome.bugs 2005-10-28 08:07 UTC -------
What concrete advantage would you get from stopping playback as opposed to simply pausing it ?
i use my old laptop as a permanent "cd player" on which rhythmbox is open all the time (24x7). i have ripped every song i own to a server's harddrive that is shared to the laptop via nfs. a stop button would release rhythmbox from processing that song on hold. i'm not sure i understand your question exactly... would you leave your regular cd or dvd player on pause overnight? i don't think i would.
I wouldn't leave my regular cd player on pause overnight because there are mechanical parts moving. In the rhythmbox case, there aren't any moving mechanical parts, and it doesn't use more resources when paused than when stopped (though it may keep a file open on the nfs mount point when paused, and release that file when stopped). So for my part, I'm not really concerned about rhythmbox "only" supporting pause.
i'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement. as i stated in the initial request for improvement, this isn't a bug, just a feature request. if rhythmbox doesn't use any more resources when using pause, why is there a "stop" button on the radio section? why not just pause that one too? i only filed this request, because i like rhythmbox; i like the interface; and i would like to see it become a better program over time because i want to keep using it for my entire music library. this is just one thing that i think might make it a better program. if i look at just about any other music player, they all have "stop" buttons and "pause" buttons, so there must be a difference between the two, interface-wise. why should rhythmbox be so different?
The Stop button isn't something that is missing, it's something that has deliberatly been omitted. It's present in most other players to mimic "real world" audio players (even if it may not make sense since there is nothign mechanical involved in a computer audio player), but isn't really useful, apart from complexifying the UI.
The "Stop" button is present for radio stations because many of them cannot be paused, and Rhythmbox has no easy way telling if they can be paused or not. The fact that you get a stop button for the library/playlists by viewing a different source is a bug, which has recently been fixed.
i am beginning to see that there is some serious opposition to a stop button. i never would have guessed it. as it is only a request for enhancement, i'm not sure it's worth all this. however, as mentioned in comment #3, "though it may keep a file open on the nfs mount point when paused, and release that file when stopped," -- doesn't that tell us that there maybe should be a stop button, even if it was deliberately omitted? that tells me that there IS a difference between stop and pause and the difference is not just "complexifying the UI." i am not a programmer, so i must leave the expert decisions to you program creators. i DO appreciate your work and the rhythmbox program. if you say "no" to the stop button, so be it. it's a REQUEST for enhancement.
I am another user in favor of being able to stop the music. I'm using a softphone application not using alsa for the sound. Each time I want to call a friend, I have to stop RB, give my call, then re-open RB to play my music. (I'm using RB 0.10.0 and I didn't see any stop button in the radio section) Because there is no stop function RB cannot run with another non-alsa program in the same time. I agree that a stop button will complexify the interface. But we could have a stop function in the menu no ?
More or less the same arguments are being made in bug 427244, but that one has a patch in it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 427244 ***