I suspect there won’t be any further development on the Clip Zip’s firmware at this point - but just in case, or perhaps for the next version of the Clip that has a voice-recording microphone… have an option where when the player is paused, the microphone feeds the headset. Many people use high-isolation earbuds, and if they pause their player to talk to someone - they have to remove an earbud to hear the person clearly. With this suggested feature, that hassle would no longer be necessary. You could also market this as a safety feature - say when one is approaching an intersection: pause whatever one is listening to and be better able to hear what’s going on nearby without fumbling with the headset.
While I’m at it, I’d like to chime in on making it an option whether to drop A and The from the beginning of artist names, for pitch-corrected variable speed playback and a BIG YES to the return of elapsed time and track counts during playback.
