Media Player bugs - is it just me?
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I've been trying to use the Media app to play podcasts, and am having some frustrations. I've also tried the Berrysoft one and the Dollars5 one, with a different set of frustrations, so I'll stick to the built-in Media app here. One thing I'd like to do is to confirm that others see this same behavior and it's not just me. These problems are so serious that I have to consider them to be bugs, and not just lack of features.
First, I really like the fact that I can hit the Mute button on top to pause and restart it. That's convenient whether it's in the holster or out. If I'm listening to an audio file and I get an email notification sound, or the phone rings or whatever, it pauses the audio playback in Media. That's great as well. But the problem is that if I hit the Mute button to resume playback after this notification, it starts over at the beginning of the file. If I'm listening to a 90-minute podcast and I have to find my place again, that's extremely frustrating, and even dangerous if I'm driving.
I've found a workaround - if I go back into the Media application instead of just resuming with the Mute button, roll up to select the playback position slider, then click the ball twice, then roll back down and click Play, that resumes where I left off. But I can't remember every single time to do this, and I often end up restarting files from the beginning.
The other major bug is that the playback position slider is too coarse - with some files, every little scroll you slide changes the position by six minutes! I need to be able to have a little more resolution when finding the position to resume from, without having to go back up to six minutes before in order not to miss anything.
Other features that would be really nice, would be able to pick files not simply based on file names, but by Artist, Album, etc., tags, like the iPods do. And to select multiple files to play.
I think this app has great potential, it just needs to have a couple of bugs fixed before it's really useful.
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