slackhead wrote: > Please don't take this wrongly, I certainly don't mean to belittle the > incredible efforts you have already put into getting Jivelite to where > it is now, but having recently spent some more time using the interface > with FLIRC and SB3 remote - I can't help but feeling that it needs more > effort to get it working in a usable friendly way. > > Having a full keyboard, or perhaps, a remote with (much) more keys works > better - but the limitations of the number/letter keypad is a major > stumbling block. You can't use the search functionality (as you can't > enter letters) nor can you jump through long lists (to alphabetic > indexes). > > Sure, having control over playback and accessing favourites is very > useful, but it really needs to be more friendly for browsing and finding > music to be of any great value. As it stands I still need other means > (I mostly use Muso or iPeng) to find the music I want to listen to, > which involves having another device (PC / Phone) available and powered > up, which in my mind defeats one of the main purposes of having Jivelite > there in the first place - I may as well just use the other device. (I > don't particularly want to have a full keyboard clogging up my front > room, just for this one job). > > If these uesabilty 'issues' can be sorted out then FLIRC and a suitable > remote will be an excellent solution, but as it stands now is too > limited.
Lets create a list of things which don't work and then I can look at this. I never used number buttons to jump to locations on the lists so this has never been something I've looked at. Agree we need to do something for the search input. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
