1analguy

Then so's my VW...



This is a specious argument. When you "mute" your TV, you want the picture to continue. For times when you don't, there is a separate "pause" function on most cable boxes...so you can stop the picture as well, if need be.

Unlike your TV at home, in your car the circumstances under which you would really want your prerecorded music to continue playing in the background while the system is muted for a phone call or navigation directions would be extremely rare, if they exist at all. My VW has no "pause" button...it has a "mute" button which mutes live material, but also pauses my prerecorded music, killing two birds with one stone. The navigation and phone systems also automatically pause prerecorded music when appropriate. Those whacky Germans...why the hell would they ever think that you wouldn't want to miss your music while your car or phone was bitching at you about something?



The OP made a valid point, whether his complaint matters to you or not. But, by all means, please continue ridiculing him. Nothing could possibly be more productive.

CaryKen

I want to throw in my support for the OP. I cannot think of a situation where I would want an audio-only source to continue playing while muted. The arguments for audio/video sources are not equivalent.

The design on the C7 infotainment system creates a situation where the only always-accessible hardware switch for this function is the mute push button. The pause button is only available on the multifunction screen, which may not be displayed when you have a need to mute. There are hardware switches for skip forward/back (on both the console and the steering wheel thumb arrows when set to audio mode). But unlike a DVD player, TV remote, DVR, or other hardware devices you have been mentioning, there is no physical pause/play button.

When I suddenly have a need to mute audio (to pay a toll, talk to someone outside, answer my cell phone), I don't want to step through a multifunction screen and find the soft-button on screen. I want to push something fast. On our car, it's the mute button and it would be convenient and sensible for it to also pause the music.

SRQStingray

When I mute my wife, she keeps talking.

Higgs Boson

mercedes Benz also pauses the music when you mute it.

any of your own media is paused with the mute button, cd, Bluetooth audio, sd card, iPod, etc. radio of course would not be paused.

all you guys laughing are obviously a little out of touch with what's been going on in car audio for the last 10 years.

yes, op, it is super annoying. it's the little things.....there's nothing bigger is there?

MThomas

Did you realize when your car is in reverse and the back up camera is on you cannot mute your radio

mfear

You guys trying to make fun of me and making inapposite arguments based on different facts are.. Well.. You know.

mfear

Yeah, that's odd, too

1SG_Ret

Absolutely my thought too. Mute does not, nor should it alter playback. It merely mutes the sound coming out of the speakers (otherwise it would be labeled "Pause".

mfear

Yeah that would make sense if your radio displayed a picture. It doesn't. Any other brain busters?

mfear

Because it's not a TV? You're comparing two complete different pieces of equipment and trying to analogize their functions... Doesn't make for a cogent argument.

hawkgfr

fixed.

Hell even Ram pauses during mute.

hawkgfr

Actually on eternal sourcing like IPOD, real engineers use the mute as the pause...GM as usual missed the memo.

Ninjaserver

OK, so, the button on the top left, that is universally accepted as a POWER button, not mute. I do understand mute vs pause, but what about adding "power" to the mix. When I hit "power
" it does not pause my music either. I'm fine with the steering wheel mute, but if i hit the button pictured above (smart asses save comments on the screen button) I don't expect to miss my songs playing. I exclusively listen to USB based audio. No radio, no pandora, no blutooth audio. As many have said "pause" should be a default, not "mute. If there's a part people don't like on their media as cited above...i am sure ffwd or edit of track, or spin volume down would suffice for that one in a million song a person actually has on their own media.
All that said. Is that "power" button supposed to just mute the system. I realize holding it turns the media off as I desire. I don't touch my touch screen save with a stylus so I prefer a hard button to "pause" my music.
Also not sure if an incoming or outgoing phone call auto pauses media. I sure hope so

Mfserge

The immaturity and intolerance on this forum is quite sad, yet the analogies are oddly amusing.

Ninjaserver

I cannot agree more Mfear. I have been on music forums, forums for this and that, but on a forum for a 50,000 plus dollar car I am amazed at how many people spend their time searching post to critique and be the completely opposite of helpful. Look at the number of people who waste their life and time, on this post alone, making snide remarks.
I certainly won't be around corvette forum long if every time i go to a post that matters to me, I have to share time with immaturity.
Please guys, and boys, and girls. Don't waste time being mean and argumentative. Be SUPER thankful you know the C7 corvette, probably own one, and can spend your spare time helping other people.

Please save retoric on the above and focus on the topic posted. Muting/Pausing and as I have added to mix out of general interest the Power button

Mfserge

I agree. I've been a long time member of luxury watch forums and when questions are asked (no matter how silly they may seem) they're addressed with respect. Here, that doesn't happen, most people try to be smart@$$3$ around here. And to see a moderator pile on with a silly analogy is quite disappointing of the site as a whole.

Sallye M

You can pause your media from a steering wheel control...

...you press the "voice" button. It's the button to give a command and it also pauses your media. Yes - you do get to hear "command please" - but it does accomplish what the OP wants in pausing his media.

HolyRoller

Weird. Well, did you realize that the words to Amazing Grace can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme?

HolyRoller

Hmph, well, I never! We need to put one of these on you.

Mfserge

Fits in perfectly with the childish theme around here. We should change the forum name to The Romper Room C7 Forum.