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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43538 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
