Suggestion for more control buttons: shuffle / repeat

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Thank you for your great work!
But what I am missing are player control buttons for toggling random/shuffle 
playback and repeat.
Could you please add this feature in your future releases? Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by martin-d...@gmx.de on 28 Apr 2010 at 1:27

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This has been asked before, but personally I don't find it worth the trouble, 
because
the aero preview should have only buttons that are frequently accessed, and I 
can't
see any reasons why would you shuffle or repeat that frequently :(
I'm not saying NO yet, but I'm inclined not to add this feature. 

Original comment by att...@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2010 at 1:43

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I understand your doubts... I usually don't use that feature that often either.
But right now I have a lot of albums in my playlist and shuffle mode turned on 
to 
listen to everything in a mix. Sometimes a song from an album comes up that I 
didn't 
listen to for a long time and then I just want to turn off shuffling to get the 
other 
songs of this album... and when it's over I want to turn shuffling on again :)

So this is my personal scenario where I would like to have such a control 
button...
I can't see the difficulty to implement this feature... but I am not in this 
topic.

Original comment by martin-d...@gmx.de on 28 Apr 2010 at 2:03

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"I can't see the difficulty to implement this feature..."
I can see entirely where atti is coming from as shuffle + random are fringe 
options
and would be better suited as a hotkey action than a button (seeing as it can 
involve
more effort to show the taskbar buttons than a preview).

It does however seem to be that some people do want different buttons from those
offered and also with a means to alter the positions of them. Maybe it's time 
to look
at the button handling code and make it more flexible or maybe not. I'm not sure
personally though it may make more sense once the preferences have been 
converted
over to a 5.x style layout.

Either way, it's something to think about as i know there's an open request for 
a
jump to file button as well as this one.

Original comment by dar...@darrenowen.wanadoo.co.uk on 29 Apr 2010 at 4:15

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Well yes, the complexity of implementing more buttons that have two states, 
like the 
play/pause, shuffle on/off is increased because of the poor design of the 
buttons 
code... I admit that! BUT I still can't see the usability of these.
The jump to file button should be much easier though :)

About the 5.x style preferences, I would try to do it, but I don't really have 
so 
much Winamp programming experience, I'm not sure how to do it... actually I'm 
not 
even sure what does it involve. Darren if you have some time, you could explain 
these 
in a bit more detail, and I'll do it.

Original comment by att...@gmail.com on 29 Apr 2010 at 6:38

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Original comment by att...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2010 at 6:51

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