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Play and Pause button icons are inverted, in audio files only

Hi,

Description

Expected behavior

I would expect this button to display an animation between its two states (play & pause), and display the action it lets the user do, rather than the playback status.

Actual behavior

Since a few version, the play/pause button in VLC displays the playback status rather than the action it does if pressed, and does not display any transition animation.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Play any audio track in VLC — the bug does not happen when playing a video.
  2. Observe the play-pause button appearance and see it’s the wrong one.
  3. Pressing the button, seeing it’s never the correct one.

Screenshot / video

2023-09-01_14-59-49.mkv

Additional note

This bug does not seem to happen on every devices :

  • a friend of mine does not encounter this problem (his device is running a pretty recent Android version, but I cannot have more information about it),
  • these two bugs do not happen on a Xiaomi Mi A3 (2019) with Android 10 and same (F-Droid latest) VLC version.

Context

App version

VLC 3.5.4 (2023-02-22)

Android version

5.1.1

Device model

Huawei Y560-L01 // EMUI 3.1

App mode

Smartphone

Edited by Aznörth Niryn