Plexamp unpauses when changing tracks

Plex Labs
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Plexamp does not maintain paused state when changing tracks.

  1. Pause the player
  2. Click next or previous track
  3. Music starts playing

I find this behavior surprising, I don’t think Plexamp should play unless I unpause or explicitly tell it to play.

Thanks,
Mike Guterl

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Pretty sure this is standard behavior across most top-tier music players?

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Elan,

This the behavior in Spotify, but Apple Music maintains the paused state. I don’t have Tidal or any other music apps on my phone to test with.

I find it to be very undesirable behavior. I think play state should be not be impacted by switching to the previous or next track.

Thank you for your consideration, your prompt reply, and by far the best music app on the market!

Cheers,
Mike

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TIDAL behaves like Spotify.
YouTube Music behaves like Spotify.

So Apple Music is the odd one out here :sweat_smile:

I’m curious as to what your use case is. It seems like swiping up and picking the track you want would be easier than next-next-next-ing in paused state, but maybe you’re doing something else.

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It is normally one of two things:

  1. Pause, then going previous or forwards in preparation to listen to a song with someone else.
  2. I’m pausing, then going previous or forwards to set up my next listening session. Sometimes when doing some critical listening, I will zone out and miss a few tracks. Once I realize this, I want to go back to where I started.

Pressing previous sometimes maintains the pause state, but only if the track has been playing for N seconds. Otherwise, it assumes you don’t want to keep going to the previous track, and then it unpauses. Changing the track makes sense, but unpausing in this situation confuses me.

I think the player should only unpause after being paused when:

  1. The play button is pressed
  2. I select a track by swiping up or from one of the other album/artist/song selection screens
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