Plugging or unplugging headphones causes MMW to jump back to the same point in the track
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 5:36 am
Because I have several very long classical music tracks, such as a 2.5-hour-long opera CD that I've collapsed into a single FLAC file, I have enabled bookmarking for classical music files.
If I plug in my headphones, thus causing my computer to switch output devices, MMW briefly resets the location of the playback meter to 00:00, then jumps forward again to where it remembers that I last stopped. The trouble is it doesn't update the bookmark first; it only updates it when I last paused. So if I paused the track at, say, 04:41, then resume playing and listen for an hour, then plug in my headphones - it blinks back to 04:41. The same is true for unplugging them.
As a secondary issue, when I do this the playback meter ceases to visually update. The little white circle just sits at 04:41 forever, though the track plays normally.
As a tertiary issue, if I unplug my headphones while a track is paused, it immediately starts playing. That should not happen.
I'm on Windows 11, running MMW 2024.2.1.3212.
If I plug in my headphones, thus causing my computer to switch output devices, MMW briefly resets the location of the playback meter to 00:00, then jumps forward again to where it remembers that I last stopped. The trouble is it doesn't update the bookmark first; it only updates it when I last paused. So if I paused the track at, say, 04:41, then resume playing and listen for an hour, then plug in my headphones - it blinks back to 04:41. The same is true for unplugging them.
As a secondary issue, when I do this the playback meter ceases to visually update. The little white circle just sits at 04:41 forever, though the track plays normally.
As a tertiary issue, if I unplug my headphones while a track is paused, it immediately starts playing. That should not happen.
I'm on Windows 11, running MMW 2024.2.1.3212.