It's much better now that it preserves the history, but I've still got a few niggles. Again, I thought I'd post them here as suggestions:
1) As I've said before, I don't believe this should be hidden under the Plugins menu. Random mix is a good solution to the problem of the standard shuffle feature being slow and non-intuitive to some people. To make it easy for people, Random Mix should appear on the top-level menu by default (IMO). 2) There should be a random genre mix option. Ideally you would be able to go right from Random Genre Mix and "tick" the genre(s) that it should pick from. You'd therefore be able to press play on the Random Genre Mix item to get a random selection of tracks from a random genre, or press right to pick the genre(s). 3) It should be possible to press Add instead of Play to get the random tracks appended to the current playlist. 4) I find it confusing and a bit annoying that the random mix stops when you turn the device off (what else makes it do this?). I understand that there has to be some way to disable the random mix, but it's odd that you can be listening to a random playlist that never ends, turn the device off and on again, carry on listening to the same playlist but suddenly find that it stops after ten tracks. Part of the problem is that there is no indication that you are or are not in random mix mode. Ideally, there would be a way of finding out if it's on, and a clear way of turning it off. This would enable random mix state to be preserved across "power cycles". Suggestions for how to do this: Add a Disable option to the top of the Random Mix menu when it is enabled (don't bother with an Enable option though). Make the random mix disable if the playlist is cleared or replaced. You should still be able to add tracks to play next or at the end of the current 10, but pressing play on a track/genre/album should disable it. I think that's it for now. Max -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
