simbo;319719 Wrote: 
> It's got a big plus symbol on it. I read that to mean, perform an
> additive function. If the button was labelled differently I might feel
> better about it.

Well, the iPod achieves this through having a big button (the one in
the middle) with NO label on it! (Does that constitute "zero
affordance", or "infinite affordance"? :-) ) Press-and-hold will add to
the on-the-go list, unless you're *in* the on-the-go-list, in which case
it will remove it.

(Aside: since a single press of the Big Button means "enter" (e.g. view
artist's albums, album's tracks), I find it all too easy to hold the
button a tad too long, and accidentally add tons of stuff to on-the-go
when I didn't mean to. It's a real pain to recover from this!)

(Aside 2: and I only recently realised that the Play button on the iPod
is similar to the Squeezebox's - pressing Play on an item will (usually)
make it replace whatever's in Now Playing. I say "usually" because I
can't recall whether if music is actually playing, it will pause it
instead.)

I suppose on the SBC (and IR remote) when in Now Playing, you should
think of "(hold-)+" as "add this track to the set of tracks not in Now
Playing" :-)

So, how *can* I use the SBC or the IR remote to move a track in Now
Playing so that it's next?  Before my Duet arrived I'd somehow assumed
that the controller would make it easy to rearrange Now Playing, though
heavens knows how I thought it might work! (Hmm, a Controller with a
touch screen...)

-- Brian


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