JimC;270196 Wrote: 
> 
> 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.  
> That would work pretty well - but rather than have a "Clear Now Playing"
function, you could have a "Load" function to mimic the good old days of
physical media.  Either press and hold the Load button to get Add, or
the other way round.  Playing a new 'CD' would be a two step Load and
Play operation.

The problem with using any of these interfaces for a while, is that you
get so used to how they work, you can't rationally evaluate the
ergonomics anymore.  Exhibit 1 is of course the typewriter keyboard.


-- 
Patrick Dixon

www.at-tunes.co.uk
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