864282 - Hold volume keys to skip songs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System, defect)

Description

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

User case:

* John uses his phone to listen music on the street.
* He is listening to a song and wants to skip to the next.
* He has to take the phone off the pocket.
* Unlock.
* Tap next.
* Lock the phone.
* Put it again on his pocket.

Ideally:

* John uses his phone to listen music on the street.
* He is listening to a song and wants to skip to the next.
* Without taking the phone off the pocket, he holds volume up for 2 seconds and the song is skipped to the next one.
* He holds volume down for 2 seconds and the song is skipped to the previous one.

This behaviour should be available to any music app, not just the core one.

Comment 1

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

I find it annoying that we don't have some way to at least have a quick way to get to the music and skip to the next song.

It would be nice if some method was implemented.

Comment 2

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

Having in mind that in target countries people don't want to show their phones in public for security, this could be a very demanded feature :)

Comment 3

[Eric Pang [:epang] UX]

Hey Rob, there hasn't been any activity on this bug for a long time but comment 2 makes a good point.  Do you know if there are plans for something like this in the future?

Comment 4

[Rob MacDonald [:robmac]]

(In reply to Eric Pang [:epang] from comment #3)
> Hey Rob, there hasn't been any activity on this bug for a long time but
> comment 2 makes a good point.  Do you know if there are plans for something
> like this in the future?

Not currently but definitely something to consider for future releases.