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[Brian]

Question for Rah'Dick, please - will you be putting the iXMPlay source up on the support site? Many thanks.

[Torkell]

Yeah, I know. Far from elegant though. I actually miss the stop button, and I often find myself wanting to use it.

Ok, now I'm curious as to what you want to use the stop button for. The only time I've wanted to use something like that is when using the mp3 player to provide tracks for a panto I was involved with, and there were other complications involved (like stopping at the end of the track). So in the end I played the tracks off the laptop (had a handful of mplayer2 windows, one per file, and triggered the tracks from them).

[Tsorovan]

Well, for one, because if you want to skip ahead several tracks whilst playing another track, it's extremely annoyingly slow to load (and in some cases start playing) every single one of the tracks I'm skipping, and it's such a waste of battery power.

Some large enough players with a browse function don't behave like this, but the vast majority of players do, including several prominent HDD-based ones.

This is quite annoying on my (admittedly crappy) flash-based player.

I have also a strong aversion to powering on/off players by holding down the Play button for 3-5 seconds, which seems to be quite popular. I prefer a separate power button.

[sequestrum]

I have a Creative Jukebox Zen Xtra player and I miss the stop button almost every time I use it. Let's take yesterday as an example. I was in the middle of a song and had just gotten home. I then wanted to stop the song and listen to it from the beginning the next time I'll use the player. I'm not too fond of listening to a song, pausing it and then continue listening to it the next day. If I were to listen to the song I would play it again, from the beginning. To shut down the player, firing it up the next day and pressing the "previous track" button isn't what I would want to do. I want, out of pure habit I guess, to press the stop button, shut down the player, turn on the player the next day and press play. That's what I'm used to and always do when I have a stop button at my disposal. Sure, there are some ways around it, some are even quicker, but habit is a pretty powerful thing.

I've had this mp3 player for almost two years now and I still miss the stop button. I'm so used to having a stop button the past years for everything (and I still have reason to use the stop button in XMPlay and other kinds of media players on a regular basis) that I can't get used to not having one.

Just because there are several ways of achieving something doesn't mean that one of the ways is useless and redundant.

And besides, the player takes much longer to shut down when playing something (or having a track paused) compared to when the player is stopped, which gives me further reason to miss a stop button.

[Brian]

You guys are swamping my question to Rah'Dick with your 50-page treatises on the stop button.

[Ian @ un4seen]

The iXMPlay source files are included in the skinning kit.

[Brian]

The iXMPlay source files are included in the skinning kit.

Ian - for some reason I was unable to locate the skinning kit before posting my query, but I've done so now, thanks.

[Rah'Dick]

Sorry for reacting so slowly, but I see your question has been answered meanwhile. Thanks, Ian!

[lele]

 
thank you , finally is skin itunes  for xmplay = iXmplay, gracias
yo pedi este skin y agradezco al autor. muchos thank you
lele