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  1. @andrewilley Oh nevermind then, this was just me being stupid, thanks.
  2. Another thing I have found is that there is no way to go to the album when playing from the queue. Other players solve this by having a dedicated queue button in the Player UI (and to make the queue more useful, it shows all upcoming tracks, not just the ones you added manually). Clicking on the album cover instead always sends you to the album. I think this makes sense and it'd be great if it was possible to configure PA to work this way. But in case the devs are afraid of "making it just like the other players", fixing the back button would already help since you'd be able to return to the screen you want to see.
  3. I'm not suggesting to convert this app to a generic music player, I just want a feature that makes using it more intuitive. The back button not taking you back is akin to the power button working as a play/pause button, or the volume buttons playing the previous/next song. You could get used to it though, it's fine, because you can still lock your screen by exiting the app and clicking the power button, and you can still control the volume with the knob on another screen. And it makes the app more unique. Why not implement this? You really don't need to advertise PA to me, I bought it and I use it daily. But in case it wasn't obvious, it's not perfect. Otherwise the developer(s) ought to freeze everything in order to avoid accidentally ruining it. No, my suggestion would not ruin Poweramp if implemented, and it would not make it "just like the other players". There are no advantages whatsoever to having the back button work the way it does now, but again, I agree that it should be toggleable because some people are used to it. There is no way to return to the previous screen from the player UI, so at the moment it's just limiting & counterintuitive behavior that makes Poweramp a bit worse and less powerful than other players, in this specific case.
  4. I want Poweramp to have an optional toggle that enables functionality which is common among nearly every player on Android. The reason the back button does what it does in other players is not because of some conspiracy or because they don't know any better, but because that's what it also does in like, every Android app, not just players. Have you ever used an Android browser? The back button doesn't open the tab view or settings, it takes you back to the previous view or webpage. I'd be really weird if somebody released a browser where the back button works differently. Also, there may be other reasons one may want to use Poweramp aside from the objectively weird navigation, don't you think? I wouldn't be sitting here writing this otherwise.
  5. In that case it's a misunderstanding, I think. What I meant is that once you're in the Player UI, there should be a way to return to the previous screen. For example, if you're browsing the year 2007, then click to bring up the player UI screen, there is no way to immediately go back to the year 2007 screen as far as I'm aware. My suggestion is to add an option which makes the back button do this.
  6. The reason I suggested to change the swipe actions was because again, nearly every other player works this way. For example, in Soundcloud, swiping down simply closes the player UI and shows the previous screen. Of course I'm suggesting this to be implemented as a toggle rather than a non-configurable change since I understand that some users may have gotten used to the way it works now. As far as I'm concerned, most Android apps only exit with the back button if you're on their default, top-most view (in PA that would be the library screen or player UI depending on the settings), sometimes requiring two back presses. Otherwise the back button goes, well... back, to the previous screen.
  7. There is another request for this feature, but it's old, and there is still no way to enable what seems like the agreed upon way an Android app should work. The purpose of the back button on Android has almost always been to return to the previous screen, not to do some other action. In Now Playing, clicking back should return to the previous view, not to the launcher (or the current album track list when "start at library" is on). For example, if I browse some genre X, and then go to the player UI to rewind the currently playing track a bit, clicking back should show me genre X again. This is because both the album track list and the homescreen are already accessible in a much more intuitive way, same as in other music apps. Swiping down in player ui should probably do the same. Virtually every other player works this way, so in my opinion this should be the default. At least an option to enable that would be much appreciated.
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