How Andy is currently listening to music.

[andrewducker]

I'm mostly listening to music at work at the moment, where I'm never sure exactly what's going to fit my mood at any point in time, and am distracted enough that I can't reach that part of me that just knows what the perfect song to listen to is any point in time.

So I'm hitting shuffle and listening to chunks of songs (or even whole tracks if they're _almost_ right) until I hit the one that makes me go "Yes!" and then switching to that album.

All of which makes me wish that the iPod had a "go to this album" button, even if that would clutter up what's largely a fantastically simple and intuitive interface.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea to me, though you'd possibly want "go to the playlist containing this song" as well/instead, which would imply being able to pick from all the playlists that contain that song ... and I'd like "play other songs by this artist" button on the same screen too ...

... and better playlist editing, and the ability to mark a song for deletion in the iPod and when you sync it gets removed from iTunes (when I find a downloaded album with deliberately scrambled tracks, or decide I never want to hear this song again)

A list of the last dozen songs played in shuffle mode, oh, and a bunch of other features! (and an FM radio with recording ability!)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that's the problem. As it is the iPod has a perfect little simple interface. Maybe it needs a foldout keyboard to manage a more complex one :->

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

or an smartphone/iPhone with 3rd party applications and a bluetooth connection to the iPod ... ;-)

It's times like this I wish I was an open source developer as I'd be able to grab someone else's MP3 playing app, add my own features and then rerelease it as a much better application!

[andrewducker]

Absolutely.

Seperate interfaces via Bluetooth would be the ideal answer, yeah. Sadly not likely to catch on this week.

[draconid.livejournal.com]

My Walkman has a similar feature to this - the option menu for any song has "go to album", "go to artist" and "go to genre". Annoyingly though it only takes you to a list of songs. When you select to play one of the songs it plays all the songs in said album/artist/genre which is great, but it inevitably means you listen to the first song in an artist's or album's list of songs more often than any others because it's the easiest one to press play on.

I need to patent the "perfect mp3 player"...