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[Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Victor,

thanks for your quick answer :)

I agree with you about the long press quickly increasing the volume.
When you have in-ear earphones, it's really terrible for your ears!

As for the "skip track" feature, it's been a pet peeve for a lot of
Android users. On some phones it's implemented by default, on some
others it's the same anti-feature of "rapidly increasing volume".

On Android, some developers tackled the issue and created the Xposed
framework [1] that allows to control lower layers of Android more
easily. Thanks to this, a module called  Physical Button Music Control
[2] has been created that answers exactly this problem: you can control
very precisely your music with shortcuts you define. I think this is a
bit overkill, as I just want a ~300ms press on volume up/down key to
skip to next/previous track.

Hope this helps :)


[1] http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer
[2] http://repo.xposed.info/module/xeed.xposed.cbppmod

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1493722

Title:
  Volume up/down long press should skip to next/previous track

Status in Canonical System Image:
  New
Status in Media Hub:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Music App:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  New
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  A handy feature of music players is the ability to quickly skip tracks
  by long-pressing the volume buttons. This allows users to control
  their music without having to take the device out of their pocket,
  turn its screen on, unlock it, go to the music app and press "Next".

  As of now, when I long press the volume button, it rapidly increases
  the volume, which is not very nice to my ears ;-)

  Is it possible to control the music app this way on Ubuntu phone?

  Music app version tested: 2.2.910 (2015-09-03)
  Device: Meizu MX 4
  System info: Ubuntu 15.04 (r4)

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