Ah right, I just upgraded to 0.3.2.1 and can confirm that there is a
modality now that allows toggling pause when in playlist. I suggest
removing this modality to conform to the de facto standard, and to the
above usage scenario: have it play/pause regardless of where the focus
is.

At the moment it is up to luck whether or not one can quickly switch to
exaile and have it pause. If focus is in the wrong place, a lot of
hassle follows.

Also, the fact that the functionality is dependent on this modality has
no affordance in the UI, so if the user tries whether this works in
exaile and happens to have focus in wrong part of the screen, they will
likely learn the assumption that spacebar for play/pause just does not
work - they have no reason to assume otherwise.

Also related to the above, I suggest to have play/pause in the
application menu - in addition to providing accessibility to disabled
users, it provides affordance/discoverability for shortcuts.

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Title:
  Space bar key should always trigger play/pause, like in all other
  media players

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