peter This working as intended. As long as playback is not running the audio segment is primed for playback indicating it by flashing. When you start playback it changes to the playing state.
Ipad 9th gen 26.0.1 ST4 1977
In my case there is no flashing, as i stop then select another segment what i expect to see is flashing + black background as this segment has not played yet so i expect it to be blank dark background and when i hit start the progress bar comes in view.
As is when you stop within any segment and choose another one there is no visual feedback to what you have just selected, no flashing.
To add to this related issue, all my songs are instant start and segmented fully.
When i select some songs the first audio segment flashes which is expected, but then i chose other songs and there is no flashing of first segment , i haven't managed to work out why, i thought perhaps my starting point of songs was not at 00:00:00 but that was identical on both songs , but one flashed and the other one did not.
Perhaps there is another reason.