If you guys are feeling generous this holiday season, I would love it if you could take the EMPEG_MIXER_SETSAM ioctl out of the player pause/unpause logic so we can play sounds from userland apps while the player is paused. More info on this request here.

I know v2.0 has had more feature creep than a NASA toilet seat, but it seems to me there's no reason to mute the DSP when the player is paused... If I'm wrong, please correct me... I personally don't hear any difference between "no data" pause and "soft audio mute" pause as Hugo suggests in the aforementioned thread, so I think this would be really helpful for those of us writing user apps which want to output sound when the player is paused.

I would be equally happy if it were configurable, for those who want the entire player muted when they pause it. i.e. a "mute_on_pause" option in config.ini.

So whaddya say, fellas?