2012-08-21, 15:43
Well the volume will work everywhere
And you have a small eye icon in most menus (maybe in overflow or hard menu button) to go to now playing.
Direct going to now playing may not be wanted all the times and there won't be any easy way for the user to disable it when some times he don't want it like queuing songs or tv episodes. Not talking about media that can take long time to start due to buffering for example.
Touching a icon to go to now playing is the simplest and quickest way for all needs
And you have a small eye icon in most menus (maybe in overflow or hard menu button) to go to now playing.
Direct going to now playing may not be wanted all the times and there won't be any easy way for the user to disable it when some times he don't want it like queuing songs or tv episodes. Not talking about media that can take long time to start due to buffering for example.
Touching a icon to go to now playing is the simplest and quickest way for all needs