> I am saying that the obvious intuitive function for the play button > would be to add the song immediately after the current position in the > playlist and begin to play it.
Obvious because...? Intuitive because...? The iPod, which is probably the best known digital music access interface in the world, doesn't work that way. Nor does iTunes, the most used music manager in the world. My car stereo, my CD player, my tape deck, my turntable, etc. don't work that way, either. What might be obvious to you may very well confuse someone else. It's about point-of-view, previous experience, etc. Every device takes some level of learning, and with an installed base of customers that already use the current methodology, changing it would create grief for a lot of people. I'm not saying the way it works today is the "right way" but it is THE way it works. > "Working As Designed" is really only a good response when the design > makes sense. But, hey, y'all stick to your guns on this and let the > Squeezebox controls continue to baffle and frustrate beginners. See above. Personally, when I became a part of this team and used my first Squeezebox, I made similar mistakes, primarily because I'd worked on the design of MP3 players, music managers, etc. in the past and made assumptions about the controls based on that work. After using the SB for a bit, I understood the decision behind the controls, and while I don't agree with 100% of them, find the remote/menus easy to deal with. >From my personal point-of-view, I'd prefer to see Play/Pause function overloaded on a single button (because that how it's done on a huge number of devices), use ADD to put music in the Now Playing list, and have a "Clear Now Playing list" menu item. Of course, that will confuse some people who would go to an album or artist and press PLAY to play that music, instead of ADD to queue it up. You could say that PLAY would also add to Now Playing, but what happens if music is already playing? Does it pause or queue (or even both!)? It gets complicated, pretty quickly. Believe it or not, an awful lot of thought has gone into the current behaviors and they are a pretty balanced compromise that give you the functionality we want to deliver without too many modalities or buttons. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43538 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
