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I think we are thinking pretty much along the same line.

The looping region seems to be the challenging bit, but if these are BGMs or looped tracks, they are most likely to be looped in its entirety. So, it feels that the looped region seems to be the last thing one might need.

The set and edit track preview section can just have a straightforward loop β˜‘οΈ and a count 0 (being loop infinitely to N). When on, it can essentially just disable the region setting clipping options like how the "audio is pre-clipped" does it, πŸ€” the rationale behind having a count for the loop is to play the piece for a fixed number of times and then skip to the next track.

I was thinking of pressing shift (which you do in audacity to play once πŸ˜…) and long press is cool too! But, now thinking about it, if you let the end user decide if the track needs to be looped in the player, then you'd probably still have to take care of looping regions too πŸ€”

Aside: I think a lot of players use this for repeat πŸ” and repeat one track πŸ”‚ and also ♾️ for loop same track.. I think πŸ€”  

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Thanks for your insights! I think I have a good idea of how to handle this now.

I was thinking about it more last night and I realized having an option to loop the whole playlist would also be useful. Most players use exactly the icons you mentioned at the end, so I think it would make sense to have a toggling button that switches between no loop, playlist loop, and single track loop.

I’ll look into implementing this soon :)

πŸ™ Thank you so much! and all the very best! :)

Aside from looping the whole playlist, in my case specifically for the kind of music (very tiny looping tracks) I make, looping a single track makes sense too πŸ™ˆ - Mini Loops by Yadu Rajiv (itch.io) 

Either way :) looking forward to how you go about solving this! All the best again! πŸ’ͺ😊