MeSue;469679 Wrote: > Instead of having the center button (SBC), knob (Radio), or touch > (Touch) immediately play an item, how about if it showed a very short > context menu with just: > > Play now (replace) > Play next > Add to end > > Then when you just want to play something, you can still do it quickly > with a double click or touch twice but there is less risk of > accidentally wiping your playlist. > > Later on when you get around to integrating a proper playlist manager, > you can add "Add to playlist..." to the menu which would let the user > browse saved playlists to add to or create a new saved playlist. > > For "party mode" all you have to do is take away the "Play now" option > and change the dedicated play button to show the same menu. > > The current context menu can stay the same for the plus button. > > What do you think?
Having two ways of bringing up two different context menus might be confusing. I don't think this context menu is much different to the standard one - effectively, if people were to get used the Add button meaning context menu, they could use that for play/play next/add, and centre button press (on Radio or controller) could be the standard navigation (i.e. show song details, allowing navigation to artist or album, etc). I quite liked the other idea of allowing centre button (or knob push, or Right-arrow on the IR remote, or possibly single-touch), to perform a default context menu action. By default, that could be set to the "Play" aciton, but provide some way of selecting a different default action (eg. from context menu, long-press an action to make that the default action). However, I think the context menu is a bit messed up with a mixture of actions and information/navigation. To me, the context menu should only be actions to perform on the currently selected item, and Song Information should be accessed in some other way (display properties of the item, as a list or series of screens, eg. access to full artwork, navigate to artist(s), album, year, genre(s), etc). Having all of this in a long list of actions, in a smaller display window on the Touch, is not pleasant. -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69471 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
