Sleep timer that resets when shaking the device

[TillThomas]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
User Need: If you did not manage to fall asleep in the duration you set for your sleep timer, you have to unlock your screen and get blasted by blinding light of your screen in order to start the playback again and set the timer gain. Now you are even more awake!

Describe the solution you'd like
I used to use an audio book app on android which had a brilliant feature I have in mind. I think it was "Smart audio book player"

It worked thusly:

1. The playback volume slowly degrades shortly before the end of the sleep timer. You can notice this if you are still awake.
2. If you notice it and you don't want to stop your playback you just lazily nudge your phone. The volume returns and the timer you configured starts again. (I started to use 2 min because nudging your phone is way less annoying then finding the place where you fell asleep)

It should probably be configurable to use this but could probably easily be done in the current sleep timer menu.

Describe alternatives you' ve considered
I found this guy on reddit did some research into the whole topic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/vzck5h/reviewing_top_audiobook_player_sleep_timers_smart/

Additional context
I would be happy to implement this. For full disclosure I have to say that I'm an Angular Dev and would need to lean heavily on LLMs to do the job. I think it's doable because the scope should be quite contained.

[amugofjava]

Hi @TillThomas,

Thanks for your detailed issue.

Adding an option to fade out the audio when using the sleep timer would be really good as it ending abruptly can be quite jarring if you're still awake (or not quite asleep).

I like the shake to extend timer idea too.

If you're happy to implement this I can assign the issue to you. As long as the LLM produces understandable code, I think it should be fine. The only difficulty I can think of is the shake to resume as Android and, particularly, iOS heavily restrict what can be done in the background. Please let me know if you have any issues or get stuck and I'll help as best I can.

Thank you.

[TillThomas]

Yes please assign it to me. I'll give it a try.

Happy new year!

[amugofjava]

Thanks, I have assigned the issue to you.

Happy new year to you too!