1. Auto-pause
Often time I'm sitting at the computer, listening to Pandora, when someone will send me a link to a YouTube video, e.g. I will then pause Pandora, and watch the video. What happens next? Nothing, because I forget to unpause Pandora, and I'll realize 30 minutes later that it's too quiet, and it will hit me that there's no music.
Would it really be that hard to install a feature that can detect whether or not another window is playing a video? To be honest, yes, maybe it would be hard, but it would be an amazing feature.
2. Verification before exiting
Because Pandora is in the browser, in one of my tabs, I will often accidentally close it, or open something in the same tab as Pandora. This isn't a big deal with other things, I just hit the back button, and everything's back to normal. However, with Pandora, the music stops, and I have to wait for Pandora to reload, and then it starts up a different song, and I lose whatever song I was listening to.
This feature is definitely possible, and would not be hard. A dialog box would just have to pop-up saying "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this site?" Meebo does it, and it's very useful there, just as it would be here.
The auto-pause feature would be nice for all media players, and verification before exiting would be nice for all web-based media players, I just singled out Pandora because that's the one I use. I couldn't find a suggestion form for Pandora, but I will send this post to their Twitter account.
Godspeed.
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