Separating Play and Pause/Stop buttons

Especially on safe mode, would be great if the play and pause buttons were in separate, discrete places on ableset - that could prevent accidentally re-triggering a song after trying to double press/click to stop playback.

Like for keyboard shortcuts, perhaps play could remain “spacebar” and stop/pause could be “return” or “backspace/delete”

Hey @professoroak, thank you for your suggestion, that’s an interesting idea!

Did you run into this situation of accidentally re-starting a song after stopping it?

As a workaround, if you have a MIDI controller or a Stream Deck, you could use it to assign a dedicated button just for stop and play :slight_smile:

hahah yes I accidentally re-started a song trying to quickly stop playback but it was actually just in soundcheck! It was one of those things where I knew I should watch out for it during a show and in my normal rig I always use a midi oaktone-style controller.

just figured if safe mode is to be truly “safe” play/stop should be seperated :laughing:

Just thinking about this some more, I could also add some kind of safety delay that disables the play/pause button for ~200ms after playback has been paused to prevent an accidental third tap that would start playback again. What do you think, would that also work for you?

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