ok, I’ll put a summary and pointer in the feature suggestions. On thinking it over, this isn’t really just about the bio metadata. A clean way to think about this (IMO): if you are on the ‘now playing metadata’ page, and select any submenu item (picture, album cover, review, bio, credits, whatever), once you have selected that submenu, you should not be automatically redirected when the track changes. After all, if the ‘now playing’ metadata changes on track change and you want to get to the updated metadata, its just one mouse click away. Let the user control his/her context.
Example use cases for not losing context:
- already discussed: reading a bio, which may be several screens long
- looking at an artist pic and want to show my wife. Don’t want the picture to change before she sees it.
- looking at credits and see a bass player I don’t know. Don’t want his/her name to disappear before I can look them up.
- etc.