My favorite iTunes feature insanity: When you listen to a song in the "Music" section of iTunes, you have a "pause" button; when you are listening and browsing iTunes store, the "pause" button inexplicably and detrimentally becomes "stop", so you have to re-navigate to "music" just to pause a song. Never mind that "stop" functionality is essentially pointless in digital music players anyway, if you are unfortunate en…
It changes to a Stop button because when you press Play again it will start playing the currently visible playlist/screen rather than the previous playlist. So let's say the Play button works the way you want it to: - You start playing a playlist. The Play button turns into a pause button - You navigate to a different playlist. The pause button does not change to a Stop button. - Push this pause button. The music "pa…
2. What other playlist? I'm in the iTunes store. I haven't given any indication that I want to or even could specify another playlist to play.
2. That's exactly how it should work anyway. If I want to change the playlist, that's a different kind of event altogether from just pausing. Having one UI element try and control both is confusing. In this case, a dedicated stop button would actually be useful, as that could distinguish between pausing the current playlist and stopping it altogether. But removing relevant pause functionality just because you're in a different program section? Pointless.