I see there are many posts related to ways to stop Poweramp and to clear the player. Despite having used Poweramp for many years, I still find it hard to know if something is really missing, or if I have just not found out how to do something. There is no stop button, so all I can do is play/pause the current category. My car player and probably many others do not have a stop button either and I think I get why people might think of a stop button as being redundant. At the same time, with the last song still on the screen at the end of a category a press of the play button will restart that song. In the car, a stray, car-initiated 'play' event on Bluetooth connection will start the last song. I would love the player to just have a clear, 'playing nothing' screen either at the end of the category (optionally I guess), or a stop button to clear the current category. As it stands, it seems there is no way to get to a 'clean slate'. A stop button would have the same effect - clearing the player back to not playing anything and not having any active category in the UI - but you could press it at any time.
So much of the time on my phone's home screen or in the player UI, I see that active category sitting on the last item, just waiting to be played again accidentally. When I am not playing anything, I would really like the player to be in a 'clear' state. Yes, I know that all I need to do to get rid of the 'now playing' list is to pick another category, but I would really like to have the ability for the player to be completely clear. It would prevent accidental plays, but it would also give me the confidence that when I press stop, the player is clear. Does this make sense?