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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: playlist usability issuesRe: playlist usability issues
From: Roger Farrow <farrow99_at_comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:21:00 -0800 I agree. The current method of having to press On+Play, Right, Down, Down, Right in order to get to "insert last" is about 4 presses too many... Roger Farrow "Leif Sawyer" <lsawyer_at_gci.com> wrote in message news:BF9651D8732ED311A61D00105A9CA315124FA0A3_at_berkeley.gci.com... > Isaac Kriegman writes: > > I frequently encounter this problem where I spend 10 minutes carefully > > building a play list, and then accidentally press play on a > > song and my entire play list is erased. I seems like I could > > compulsively save my play list after each addition, but it doesn't > > seem like I should have to from a usability standpoint. > >[...] > > I think the ideal functionality for the play button would be > > to add the current song to the play list, and if I wanted to clear > > the play list I could do that separately. > > > After a party this weekend, and hitting this issues quite a few times > due to .. um.. improper application of alcohol and MP3 queueing.. I'm > inclined to agree with Isaac. > > Once it's been established that we're in a playlist-generation mode, while > we're in the browse-mode, 'play/pause' should act as 'insert->last' so that > it's a very quick way to add music to the end of the playlist, and won't > accidently erase your hard work. > > Additionally, some visual feedback in the screen would be wonderfull, > letting > me know that I'm in a temporarily-generated playlist. Optionally with a > secondary > flag that shows me if i've saved it since the last modification. > > this would bring the usability up tremendously! > > Leif > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-03-30 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |