![]() No, my suggestion would not ruin Poweramp if implemented, and it would not make it "just like the other players". Otherwise the developer(s) ought to freeze everything in order to avoid accidentally ruining it. But in case it wasn't obvious, it's not perfect. You really don't need to advertise PA to me, I bought it and I use it daily. You could get used to it though, it's fine, because you can still lock your screen by exiting the app and clicking the power button, and you can still control the volume with the knob on another screen. The back button not taking you back is akin to the power button working as a play/pause button, or the volume buttons playing the previous/next song. I'm not suggesting to convert this app to a generic music player, I just want a feature that makes using it more intuitive. In short, Poweramp is not for the common user anyway. For common usage, there's another 10 million music players out there to choose from. It was always an advanced music player, and pretty much it's the best music player in android platform. The whole point of Poweramp is to stand out of the common music players. Let's not talk about every function like for example, parametric equalizer. It's fully customizable, even the skins for Poweramp fully customizable. The point is, why should any app work the exact same way as ten others? It's a written law every music player should work the same way? Most of us using Poweramp as our ONLY music player (guess why) we got used to it over the years, we like it, we love it. I can understand, it would be ok to have it customizable for the one's who want it. Neither of them slavishly follow the latest Windows 11 design guidelines - in fact in many ways they still look like Windows 95/XP programs - but the features hidden away within their interfaces are second to none. But once you've mastered its complexities and dug into the Settings to find all sorts of extra opportunities, it's far more versatile than the sanitised - indeed, almost childish - interfaces of Samsung's music player, Sonos app, etc. Poweramp, like other 'power user' apps, has never slavishly followed that trend and prefers to do things its own way, which can lead to a longer learning curve. The downside of this is that a great many apps look like generic homogenous copies of each other, with the same buttons in the same layout and similar options. So anyone who basically understands how Android works should be able to download and start using new apps seamlessly. That's why Google (for better or worse) goes to great lengths to try to ensure that all Android apps operate in much the same way in terms of their design language, look & feel, and user interface. There is of course one very good reason for a common design language when it comes to the overall way that interfaces operate, and that's user familiarity and ease of use. Why should any app work the exact same way as ten others?
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