As succinctly as possible?
This is only relevant for the remote/player display, not the Duet or
SBC.
You can choose between various screensavers for individual players
(Payer/Basic Settings). Up to and including 7.0.1 the "Now Playing"
screensaver was set as the default for when music was playing and
kicked in afer a set time (can't rmemeber what the default time was).
However annoyance was caused to many by the fact that when the
screensaver was shut off (for instance by using the left arrow button)
the user was not left with the screen they had been on before the
screen saver kicked in but with a completely different screen (iop menu
item I think it was then).
To addresse this the screensaver "Now Playing (Jump back on wake)" was
invented. If you selected this screensaver in your Player/Interface
settings then when the screensaver was stopped (by a hitting a key) you
were returned to the screen you were on before the screensaver kicked in
(as most usrs seemed to expect to be). Very unfortunately this
screensaver was left as an option and not made the default.
It took until 7.1/7.2 for the "Now Playing (jump back on Wake)" screen
saver to be made the default screen saver. And at this time it was
renamed to be "Now Playing", which as Michael says, is bound to cause
another layer of confusion... but in my mind was the correct choice and
well.... was there a better option?
And now my particular bugbear:
The Now Playing area has always been a bit of a mess. There is a
confusion between the Now Playing screensaver and the Now Playing
screen (oh yes, they are different things!). They look like the samne
thing and are pretty much called the same thing, but they have
different functionality applied to them.
For instance, if you are using 7.1/7.2 and the default Now Playing
screensaver ("Now Playing (jump on wake)" as was) kicked in you can use
the left arrow and you'll be returned to the screen you were viewing
before the screensaver kicked in.
But if you select Now Playing from the remote you are returned to the
Now Playing *screen* and hitting the left arrow takes you to the top
item in your Home menu.
To me the most obvious and overiding fault with the remote/display UI
and the main reasons that some new users think the system is
"eccentric" and hard to get to grips with is the similarity and
differences between the Now Playing screen and screensaver. The recent
decison to make the originally named "Now Playing (Jump on wake)"
screensaver the default will go a good way to alleviate this
eccentricity, but still does not entirely address the problem.
MC
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