In my opinion there are three important areas which, if addressed, will make this a knock-out app:
1) Filtering is essential when you have a fair idea what you want (I emailed the following suggestion to Joerg back in January). For instance, I'm tagging my FLAC files with multiple genres (e.g. Joel;Blues;Delta Blues). I would love to be able to filter music by multiple genre. e.g. First select "Joel" (which filters out all my partner's albums), then "Blues" (broad "Blues" genre). You get the idea. 2) A picture tells a thousand words! Human beings are visual animals and our primary cues are visual. As much album art as possible please! I think that taking a leaf out of the Sooloos book makes a lot of sense. Clearly the iPad screen is smaller than the 17" Sooloos Control 10, but if the album art is a bit smaller, then I'm sure the same effect can be achieved. The image below is much smaller than the iPad screen! [image: http://www.meridian-audio.com/sooloos/img/experience/images/interface.jpg] 3) Finding music to listen to when you *don't* know what you want is critical. I agree that randomization is important. I would love to: - Display a page of random album art. - Hold down my finger on one "pivot" album and get a pop-up menu. - Select "View more albums from this year" or "from this genre" or "by this artist". - iPeng then displays a new page of album art (randomized) based on the user's choice (leaving the pivot album in the same position as it was on the first screen). - User can swipe the page up/down in the likely event that there are more albums than will fit on a single page. (Paginating rather than scrolling would allow the pivot album to remain in the same place on the new page.) - This process could be continued ad-infinitem with maybe one "previous page" step. I'm really looking forward to the iPad version - it was one of the main reasons I bought an iPad! Thanks, Joel (Silber) -- VirusKiller ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VirusKiller's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74581 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
