Lisa, functionally there appears to be little difference between the
two.

I would disagree (personal opinion obviously!) about the ease of
interaction.  My take-away thought about Seeqpod is that most of the
options are up front whereas Songza, for me, did a better job of
defining the primary controls and hide the secondary nice to haves
two layers down e.g.

Seeqpod: 32 immediately clickable controls on the main media page
Songza: 7
(not including clicking on individual tracks. Also, stand to be
corrected on those numbers)

Remember, this is simply a music player

Songza, to me, presents the primary message of the site up front and
places secondary features such as social, playlist controls, etc in
one level.

There's arguments for both approaches, there are some flaws in the
layout for songza such as scrolling.  Seeqpod has a very broken flow
in places.  Nothing is ever perfect.  But if Simplicity was ever a
good design directive then... (o;




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