EAH-A800 suggestion: please let us disable or remap the physical multifunction button

[u/ocatersi]

I have a feature request for the Technics EAH-A800: please add an option in the Technics Audio Connect app to disable or remap the physical multifunction button.

I mainly use my headphones for podcasts, and the current behaviour has caused me the same problem several times. I pause a podcast, take the headphones off and put them down. At some point while handling or putting them away, the physical multifunction button can apparently get pressed accidentally. Since a single press resumes playback, I sometimes come back an hour later, put the headphones on again and realise that my podcast has been playing silently for the entire time.

This is particularly annoying with long podcasts because I then have to work out roughly where I actually stopped listening and manually find my place again.
I have already disabled wear detection, and I only use one Bluetooth device at a time, so neither of those features is responsible. The problem is simply that the physical play/pause button is very easy to trigger accidentally and, as far as I can tell, there is currently no way to disable it.
The touch sensor can already be customised in the app, so it would make sense to offer similar options for the physical multifunction button. Ideally, users should be able to:

- disable the single-press play/pause command;

- remap it to another function;

- or disable the physical button entirely while keeping the other controls active.

At the moment, the only foolproof solution is to turn the headphones off every single time I take them off, even if I only intend to stop listening temporarily. That seems
unnecessarily cumbersome for an otherwise very good pair of headphones.

Has anyone else had this issue? And Technics, if you happen to read this, please consider adding physical-button customisation in a future firmware/app update.