Change to landscape UI renders rewinding useless

[shagbark]

When playing a playlist, if you touch the bottom, under the progress bar, where the current track is showing, and drag it up all the way to the top, then drag it down a bit, then drag it up again, a cryptic icon will appear in the upper-right corner which looks like a quarter-note to the right of a menu icon. When you touch it, it switches between a mode which shows the playlist, and a mode which replaces the playlist with a giant picture of a traffic cone (or, I suppose, an album cover, if I were playing music from an album, which I never have).

Until a week or two ago, that is. At that time, the button was disabled for landscape mode. Instead, you see a screen split into a left half, showing the traffic cone and the playback controls, and a right side showing the playlist. Touching the menu-quarter-note icon does nothing.

This is very bad for me, because, since the rewind button doesn't work in VLC Android (hasn't for a long time), I rely on touching the progress bar to back up the audio when I miss something in a lecture. Since these lectures are usually 30 or 45 minutes long, the rewind resolution on the progress bar used to be about 2.5 seconds per pixel on a 1024x768 screen. As I can only touch the screen with a resolution of about 20 pixels, that means that I can get within about half a minute of where I want to rewind to, though usually I only want to rewind 5-10 seconds.

Since the UI change, the progress bar is only half as long, which means I can only get to within about a minute of where I want to get to. Since I have to rewind because I missed something every few minutes, this means I now spend about half my time re-listening to some part of a lecture just in order to hear a few seconds of it that I missed.

I would greatly appreciately it if someone either restored the old landscape UI, or fixed the rewind button so it's possible to rewind on an MP3 track in VLC.

[Aza]

Added to our issue list.
See: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc- ... issues/856

Thanks for the report.

[Aza]

By the way, in the meantime, you can use the "Jump to time" advanced option to seek to a precise time.