I wonder if other people feel the need to do the following... Playing random songs and something comes up that takes your fancy. You decide to play the whole album - how do you do it?
With an SB3, I would: 1. Navigate into song info (right-arrow). 2. Scroll down to the name of the album. 3. Press play (or Add long-press Add for Add Next). Note: Using my Playlist Manager plugin, I also supported pressing the Add button on the name of the album, and could then add the album to any playlist I liked. However, this has always infuriated me, with Touch, for multiple reasons: 1. I always forget that pressing the song title will play the track, instead of display song info. 2. So after the song has restarted (due to 1), I navigate to the song info (long touch on song). 3. Scroll down to the name of the album, but I can't play it. Long-touch on items in the context menu don't work. So, some options: 4a. Touch the name of the album, and I can see the tracks on the album, but there's no way to play them all. There's no way to bring up the context menu for the album you are looking at. I suppose it is possible to play all songs on the album by touching the first song to play it, and then long-touch each of the others and select Add Next. 4b. Browse to the Artist, and then scroll down to the find the album. The list of albums at this point does support context menu actions, so I can play/add it directly. Not good if there's a lot of albums for the chosen artist (eg. "Various Artists"), and if the current album sort mode isn't alphabetical, you have to think a bit harder to know how to navigate the list to find the album. 4c. Go to Home > My Music > Search and type the name of it. Not good if the album name is a bit generic. Eg. searching for the Beatles album "Love", brings back a long list of albums with the word "Love" in the title. Surely I'm not the only one that thinks this is a bit rubbish compared to SB3 ease of use? Am I silly - have I missed something simple? Note, I'm struggling to get Playlist Manager to detect IR Remote keypresses within the Browse menus with 7.6.1 (within current playlist is okay), and there's no way of bringing up the context menu on an item in the browse menus in classic Player UI any more. i.e. by default Play button will play the item, Play.Hold will bring up mixers (not full context menu), Add button will add to end, Add.Hold will add next. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
