Re: [Usability] Sound Juicer 2 mockup comments

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:52 +0100, Samuel Abels wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:37 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > And there's no stop button in Totem, and I don't think there should be
> > one in sound-juicer as a player. What would be the use?
> 
> The main use would be that it is closer to what people already know from
> the real world.

First, I want to make it clear that, prior to software, pause and stop
were defined in terms of the physical mechanism, not the behavior.  On
both CDs and cassettes, "stop" is to stop spinning, turning, reading,
and moving, and to reset the reading device.

For CDs, that means playing again starts from the beginning of the CD,
not the last track.  For cassettes, that means playing again starts
right where you left off, just like pause.  There was never a defined
stop behavior, only a mechanism.

When we copied stop in software, not only was there not a well-defined
behavior, but most software invented an entirely new behavior.  Stop has
somehow morphed into a "start at the beginning of the track" behavior,
which has absolutely no precedant in hardware devices.


Second, the only CD player I ever use is the one built into my car
stereo.  It has no stop button.  QED.

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Shaun