I noticed something today in the new iTunes Store interface. When you hover over a song in the store you are presented with a nifty play icon that replaces the track number in the album listing. This is quite similar to the iTunes Store interface functionality on the iPhone/iPod Touch OS. Clicking on the play icon or double-clicking on the song title starts the 30-sec preview of the track.
Just like the iPhone version, the new iTunes Store desktop interface then displays a round blue icon with the ubiquitous stop square with the progress of the 30-sec preview rotating in a contrasting blue color.
Clicking on the stop square does not always stop the playback of the preview. What should happen when you click on the stop icon is that the preview ceases to play and the icon goes away to be replaced once again by the track number. On some albums in the store this function works. On other albums it does revert back to the track number, however the preview continues to play until it finishes or until you hit the pause button in the iTunes window. Also when you let the preview play out to the end, the stop icon does not disappear either, to release the icon you must click the stop button even though the preview has completed.
This definitely seems like a bug in the interface. I have confirmed this in both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of iTunes 9 running on Snow Leopard and Windows Vista, respectively.
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