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Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by Carrok »

I would love this for Mac, not for games but for all browser tabs. Find whichever tab I'm playing music in, and pause it, whether it be SoundCloud, YouTube, or some other streaming something. Fantastic idea though!

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by jon-wood »

Carrok wrote: post #4

I would love this for Mac, not for games but for all browser tabs. Find whichever tab I'm playing music in, and pause it, whether it be SoundCloud, YouTube, or some other streaming something. Fantastic idea though!

Media Keys does that for Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/media-keys-by-sway...

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by arcatek »

That's interesting. However, I wonder ... don't you think it can be abused in some games that try to compensate lag? For example, what if they use a code similar to:

  delay = currentFrameTime - lastFrameTime
  playerPosition += direction * delay
I know that some games (such as Diablo III) may automaticallt ban you if you happen to run a program that may be used to cheat (they detect that via a background process check).

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by ihuman »

Carrok wrote: post #4

I would love this for Mac, not for games but for all browser tabs. Find whichever tab I'm playing music in, and pause it, whether it be SoundCloud, YouTube, or some other streaming something. Fantastic idea though!

At WWDC, they announced that the new Safari version would be able to do something like that.

Re: Show HN: Universal Pause Button

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Post by jerf »

cool-RR wrote: post #5

"I like to play video games. I also have a significant other, and she often walks into the room to talk to me while I'm playing a video game." Looks like the real solution would be to pause your SO ;)

I encountered this problem with babies. They definitely don't pause.

My solution was the DS/3DS line of consoles... snap 'em shut, bam, paused. I've called them the consoles of choice for the discriminating father.

(If you've never had kids and find yourself wondering what horrible father would be playing video games while taking care of his children, well, you see, it turns out that sometimes your child wants to sleep on somebody, and will not sleep any other way... and there's only so many things you can do with a baby that cries if you move sleeping on you. Both of my kids went through that phase for different reasons.)

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