Tell me you’re Gen Z or Alpha without telling me you’re Gen Z or Alpha.
“Press this button to do this”
Yes. The button symbol denotes the action/cause, not the reaction/effect.
Yes I understand that but in most software they don’t have seperate play and pause buttons but rather only one which swaps symbols when you click and so for me when I want to know whether it is currently playing I just look at the button.
Generally I just either watch the screen or listen to the audio to know if it’s currently playing, but maybe that’s just me
You should know that you don’t just look at the play/pause button to just know the file is playing, you can know the playing status from other UI elements, for example, status bar (“playing example.file”, “pause”, “stop”), progress bar, timer and others… Right?
Ah, the old debate of “display current state” vs “display current action”…
What would be the reason? Most media players I use like vlc which is well known has the play as the triangle and pause as ||. Same with YouTube.
That’s a result of devs using the “pause” icon to indicate “paused”. And when people tap on the “paused” icon to “play” something, it becomes associated with that.
Blame the UI devs who messed this up.
Thanks for the insight, ElPussyKangaroo
You’re welcome, floridaman.
Florida Man caught thanking kangaroos in the vulva received recognition on fediverse.
I’m still shocked at what the hell I just read but it was pretty wholesome.
Florida Man caught thanking kangaroos in the vulva
received recognitionon fediverse.🌚
I can assuredly tell you I do not.
I don’t think we all do.
It may astonish you to learn that many media devices in this wide, rich and varied world are not software applications.
Someone here didn’t record their favourite songs onto a cassette when the radio played them
I hate to break it to you, but we’re too old. The kids don’t know what cassettes are.
proceeds to cry in a corner
They’ll start calling us cassettes as slang for old farts
Sup, Floppy drive.
Sup, turntable
Sup, Marconi radio
Sup, AWA
Okay, here’s where I lose you. What’s AWA?
What would you know? Vcd
i was referring to the disk packs from the 60s-70s haha. i’m in my early 20s, my oldest memories are seeing cassettes used but already making fun of them for being old. personally i’ve got plenty of those and 8 tracks though… :)
Lol omg that’s even worse
They’re not wrong
I think this only applies if the two actions occupy the same space, and change when pressed? If I saw a separate play and pause button, I’d assume play means play and pause meant pause. If I saw only one button for play, I’d probably assume it was currently paused/stopped.
My bad, I should have been more specific in my post. I was talking in the context of software which in most music players has the pause and play buttons occupying the same space. On physical devices such as dvd player I obviously consider the pause button as “to pause” and the play button as “to play”
Definitely not most people, perhaps most people in the youngest generations, but they still do not constitute a majority. In the future possibly, but there are still plenty of people who either still have sound playing equipment with buttons with those symbols on them or have recent memories of owning and operating such gadgets.
