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When clicking next or previoius from notification, the player immediately starts playing.
Imo correct behavior should be to start playing when the player was playing before and not if it was not.

I took a look at the libvlc. It seems there is no way to prepare a media? You can just say: play this index, or simply play. No prepare this index, and when next play comes play it?

What do you mean?

I'll explain a bit more detailed:

When the player is paused, the notification is still up. On the notification there are Next and Previous buttons, allowing to jump through the playlist.
When the player is playing and you click next, it will simply start playing the next track. But when the player is paused and you click next, you would expect the player not to start playback, but rather stay paused.

But this does not happen, the player starts playing immediately. I think in most cases when you have paused the player from notification and are then clicking on next/previous it is because you are looking for a specific track. But then it wouldn't make sense to start playing directly. The correct beavior should be (imo) to stay paused and start playback when you click play.

Actually, the normal behaviour for all of VLC, even on Desktop, is to start playing right away after clicking next.