Very nice! I've been waiting for something like this since the iPad was
announced. I find it quite fast and responsive. I've tried it
controlling a Receiver, Boom, SB3, and SqueezePlay/Mac, playing from My
Music, Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker, and Radio Paradise. Everything works
great.
Here are my comments and suggestions so far.
I'd like to see the following options:
Prevent display sleep when playing.
Darker background (perhaps with a texture).
The icon looks a little ratty on the iPad screen (the frame border is
jagged). I'm also not a fan of lilac, or whatever that light purplish
color is that's all over the place. :-)
I agree about using a consistent font size in lists, as suggested
before. This bugs me on the Controller as well.
It would be nice to see the playlist count when relevant (X of YY).
In long alphabetized lists it would be handy to be able to jump to a
given letter, as you can in the iPhone's iPod app.
I agree about providing an arrow for moving back on menus, as suggested
before. The backwards swipe is not so obvious because the menu window
doesn't move horizontally as you're starting to swipe. I like the
behavior of the article window in Reeder, for example, where the window
starts to move as you swipe back, but there's also a back arrow if you
don't want to swipe at all.
I think it would be nice if the control buttons mirrored those of
SqueezePlay. Whether or not you do this, it could behave like
SqueezePlay and provide buttons for Shuffle and Repeat, except when
using Pandora where these buttons are Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down, or
when using Slacker where these buttons are Add Favorite and Remove
Favorite. SqueezePlay also dims the Next and Shuffle buttons when
there's only a single song in the playlist. The little "i" could go in
the bar across the top to make room.
This is a real nitpick, but I think it would look better if the control
button panel didn't run off the bottom of the screen.
The volume slider can be adjusted on a player where the digital output
is fixed at 100% (but the slider of course has no effect).
And speaking of SqueezePlay again, it has icons for the top-level menu
items that perhaps you could use.
If you hit search but don't enter anything and then press the button to
hide the keyboard, I think the menu should go back instead of forward.
I'll certainly vote in any feature polls you post.
What is it about quality Squeezebox control and Berlin? :-)
Thanks!
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dem
Dave
Squeezeboxes: 3 (a.k.a. Classic), Duet, Boom
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