>For me by far my most common choice when selecting somehting to play is >whether to play it now, next or add it to the end of the current >playlist so a menu that pops up "instantly" when I select a playable >item (ala Squeemote) is exactly what I want. > For me, I hardly ever Play, Play Next or Add individual songs, so I don't need those actions to be easily accessible. Being available via the standard context menu is fine, especially seeing this is how I would play an album. When I am browsing songs, it's because I want to browse some detail of the song.
If I want to build up a playlist, I'd do it via the WebUI, or in another application and import the playlist and play it. I Play or Add albums or random music. What often happens is I am playing random songs, and a song I like comes on, so I decide to play the album. On a SB3, I simply press right-arrow to go into the currently playing song, down-arrow to the album detail and then hit play. 3-4 button clicks. On Touch, this is really long-winded... I touch Current Playlist navigate down the list of songs to find the currently playing item touch the item [Oops, that's started to play it again, silly me] I long-touch the album to get the context menu. navigate down the list to find the album detail. You can't long-touch the album name to select "play album", all you can do is single-touch to display the songs on the album. If the user has the option "Play other songs in album", the user can play the album by single-touching the first track. If the user has the option "Play only selected song" (which I do), there is no way to play the whole album from this route. So, I go back to the song, long-touch, click on the artist (or one of the artists if there are more than one), and get a list of the albums for that artist. I then scroll down the list of artists, trying to find the album that contains the song that is playing (or was - probably moved on to another song by now!). I then long-touch the album name, whereby I can select to play the album. There are other reasons for wanting to navigate into things from a song. eg. if there is an album I want to play, but I can't remember the title, I would search for a song on the album. Having found the song (reports song title, artist and album), I can click the song to play it, but it's really awkward to play the whole album. >On the Touch and iPeng interfaces I find that far too often I am forced to hold >an item down for a second (or more) to get the result I need. This is slow and >irritates me intensely (and I am always tempted to press the screen far too >hard). > I understand that people want different things. Some people want to play/add songs, others don't. Therefore there will never be a one-solution fits all. That's why some degree of configurability is necessary, or half of users will be unimpressed with the interface. Phil _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
