Other remarks, IMHO and FWIW :

Overall I am not totally sold on the GUI, but hey, neither am I with
the full iPeng on iPad app. As I said earlier I think a choice could be
made on the app's purpose, and this should override what follows.

- In portrait mode there is no playlist. iPhoto uses a horizontal
list, and this works well for me.
- I have to agree in landscape mode it is difficult to visualize
what's playing now.
- There is no auto-add to the playlist when it ends. When it ends the
player stops. Then you can add more songs, but there is no auto-start
either.
- No fullscreen "now playing" ? For a DJing app I can understand. But
for a more passive app, I think this is really missing.

- In my tests the cancel song popup was totally inefficient. For
starters this is a transient popup window and I think they should get
the axe (the second one being used for a possibly unnecessary  player
selection). If you're dancing around or semi drunk, a popup window is
not easy to grasp. Second, every time I tried to hit the red (x) mark
to cancel the addition, I failed to cancel and hit the song under it,
ending up in adding 2 songs…
I think something like a swipe on the just added item should allow to
delete it. (if added by yourself?) Like in Mail on iPhone when you want
to archive/delete messages from the inbox.
- Time remaining in playlist needs not be accurate by the second (it
is on the song). Elapsed time on a song means nothing to me. Remaining
time in the song does, but only if I am empowered to change what's
going to play next. Both figures dance a little on screen (proportional
font).
Purely as a guest, what could interest me is: "do I have time to do
whatever and be back for this song?", or "what was it they played 10
minutes ago?". So I think I'd prefer relative timing (X minutes ago,
now playing, coming up in X minutes) attached to the playlist. Like the
TimeMachine scale ?

- Menu. I don't know what to say, by and large I hate it... But I
guess at least you want to remove some distracting items from that menu
(new music, extras, trackstat, favs…)

All right you wanted it, now you have it.
(I think there is also a lot of things that could be added to the app.
But I'll leave that to other posts.)


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