>Welcome to the inner circle. Now you've got the honor to be able to >discuss the higher virtues of TTP vs. bitrate information with Phil >until the cows come home :)
Yeah, I'll take the bait... I have no interest in bitrate information (nor most other items in "More Info") - I think you miss the point. But, touch to display bitrate information may even perhaps be better than touch to destroy current playlist ;-) Personally, I play albums or random mixes via MusicIP, dynamic playlist, TrackStat, etc. Hardly ever play/add single songs. I don't build up playlists by manual (random access) song selection. But I do often like to see details about an item that's playing, eg. to navigate to related music through hyperlinks, show comments, year of release, etc). Touch-to-play for Radio stations makes sense, as there's next-to-no reason to view details about a radio station (url is not useful!). I think this is what touch-to-play was originally considered for, but was extended to songs too. There would be some merit in having Touch-to-play on album context, as that is (arguably) the most-likely action at album level. I'm not against the interface being configured as it is, as some people seem to like it, but why not configurable (esp. seeing that it would add consistency across existing product range). There was an interface that worked well on classic players. Play did a play action, Add did an add action, navigation always navigated. Around the time that SBC came along (less buttons?), people complained that it was too easy to blow away the current playlist by accidentally playing a single item. This was "cured" by the Party Mode function, which made the Play action do an add action instead. So, Add became More. Then Party Mode was disbanded because it was once again the seen as acceptable to be able to accidentally play an item to blow away everything that is already queued up to play. This was once mentioned as a blocker problem that had to be addressed before Radio/Touch could ship, but the issue has been reduced in priority. [Can't find the bug report at the moment, as bugzilla seems to be down] It wouldn't be so bad if there was a better song info screen, rather than an almost random mash-up long list of song info items and actions, in a small window that shows only 4 items at a time. _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
