![]() For some reason, I find that behaviour more intuitive than Poweramp's always-open player component. The stop button has the same effect - it stops and closes the player component. In some of those other products, there seems to be a slightly greater separation betweent the player and library components, a separation that allows the player to be closed on reaching the end of whatever it was asked to play. There are, of course, play buttons in the library and these buttons launch the player component. It seems that PlexAmp simply closes the player part of its UI either when the stop button is pressed or it reaches the end of its 'now playing' list. I think I may have confused Poweramp's behaviour with that of PlexAmp, which I use when I am at home and in WiFi range. Thanks for your response Before I read your response, I did indeed reinstall Poweramp and saw that the first song in the All Songs list was all cued up and ready to go. That way, there would be nothing to play when the car sends the play command on Bluetooth connection. I would prefer, when an album is finished, not to have the last track sitting in the player UI. The last thing I want to do when I get in my car is work out how to stop the music. This is not remedied by turning off the 'resume playing on Bluetooth' toggle, as it is a car-initiated play command. In relation to the 'accidental' play, I have seen this mentioned in the forum by people who find that a car's music player issues a 'play' command to the player on Bluetooth connection. It would relieve me of the need to look at the track count to see that I have indeed reached track n of n and have therefore reached the end of my selection. If I had an option to do that, it would give me a clear cue that I have reached the end of my selection and might like to pick something else to play. Perhaps I may have better luck with a more modest proposal simply to have the option of closing the player UI (and any open home screen notifications) when the end of a category is reached and returning me to the library view. I can see I will get no joy from further persisting with the stop button idea, although I will say that my Plex player has a very nice stop button that clears the 'now playing' item, closes the player controls, leaves me with a clean library view and allows me to choose something else to play. ![]() ![]() It would prevent accidental plays, but it would also give me the confidence that when I press stop, the player is clear. 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. ![]() When I am not playing anything, I would really like the player to be in a 'clear' state. 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. 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. As it stands, it seems there is no way to get to a 'clean slate'. ![]() 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. In the car, a stray, car-initiated 'play' event on Bluetooth connection will start the last song. 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. 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. There is no stop button, so all I can do is play/pause the current category. 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. I see there are many posts related to ways to stop Poweramp and to clear the player. ![]()
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