Question to all the media player developers out there: what do you have against stop buttons? What the hell is wrong with you? Since the dawn of time every single music and video playing device has had a fucking 'Stop' button. In fact, I'm pretty sure the stop button was invented prior to the wheel. But media player developers, oh they know better. Nobody needs a stop button right?
Rhythmbox: No stop button.
Totem: No stop button.
Qouaouid Libesomeshit: No stop button.
Listen Music Player: No stop button.
FAIL! Lesson: a pause button pauses playback. A stop button stops playback. The difference being that you CAN'T PAUSE A WEB STREAM. Nothing annoys me more than starting playback of an audio stream and having it start with whatever was left in the buffer only to stop after five seconds because it needs to connect to the actual web stream. Fuck. That. Also, I want to be able to start playing a song from the start; a need which the stop and start button nicely took care of. But since a stop button is apparently unnecessary, we now have backwards buttons that don't actually go backwards to the previous song, but restart playing the current song. What the @(#&!? Some media players don't even get that right, and the only way to restart a song is by dragging the progressbar back to the left. Genius!
Stop being such stubborn bastards and just put a stop button in the interface, please!
Media player buttons have been retarded since well before the Internet. On some media player devices (this includes CD-players, Minidisc players, DVD players, and many more) the "Back" button takes you back a song, on others it takes you to the start of the song. When "Repeat one" is on, "Forward" may take you back to the beginning or the song, or it may break "Repeat one". "Stop" can stop playback, restarting at the current track, or it can stop playback and restart at the start of the album, or — in the case of "improved" digital media devices — it may "resume from bookmark" after you press play again. And sometimes this magic bookmark is maintained over standby, sometimes not.
It all stopped making sense after cassette decks.
I think it's high time we went back to the good old days: vinyl.