Comment 3 for bug 1493722

Hi Victor,

thanks for your quick answer :)

I agree with you about the long press quickly increasing the volume. When you have in-ear earphones, it's really terrible for your ears!

As for the "skip track" feature, it's been a pet peeve for a lot of Android users. On some phones it's implemented by default, on some others it's the same anti-feature of "rapidly increasing volume".

On Android, some developers tackled the issue and created the Xposed framework [1] that allows to control lower layers of Android more easily. Thanks to this, a module called Physical Button Music Control [2] has been created that answers exactly this problem: you can control very precisely your music with shortcuts you define. I think this is a bit overkill, as I just want a ~300ms press on volume up/down key to skip to next/previous track.

Hope this helps :)

[1] http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer
[2] http://repo.xposed.info/module/xeed.xposed.cbppmod