Can't fast forward or skip to a point in a track

[Gareth Williams]

Doesn’t appear to be any implementation of skipping around the track (ie clicking on a certain point in the playback bar) and the “Faster” button only causes music to sound sped up without actually moving it ahead (not sure if this is deliberate, I suppose it doesn’t explicitly say “fast forward”).

[wothke]

While there are file formats that do allow for direct playback positioning (e.g. most tracker formats) the used players to not always support this feature (e.g. UADE). Then there are formats that actually rely on a sequential start to finish emulation (e.g. C64 “.sid” files) - which makes direct positioning extremely slow/expensive. When implementing a respective feature the UI should provide some additional cue to make it clear whether or not the feature is available (mb graying the bar when skipping is not available).

This is a feature that could be implemented with relatively little effort. For now lets see how many votes this feature request is getting.

PS: There had been a bug that caused the shown position not to be updated properly while using “fast forward“. This bug should be fixed now.

[wothke]

Added UI “skipping” feature for all of the backends that already provide that functionality.