[robertlaing]

Hi Bart,

Hope you are well, thanks for your continuing hard work.

I have found something else which I would like to ask you about to see what you think.

In the music, when I go into an album and stay on the album list, these are the steps I follow to use the music player:

1. Play a song.
2. Press left to bring up an overlay menu.
3. Go to player.
4. When in player all I need to do to return to the album list is press return.

However, should I go into a playlist (such as party mode), this is what I need to do to acheive the same as above:

1. A song plays.
2. I press return and return to the main menu with the song playing.
3. Press return to get into the player.
**If I press return again I end back up in the main menu with the song playing as in step 2 above, then another press of return brings me to step 3 and this obviously carries on in this way.**
4. Press ok to get up the osd.
5. Press the cog wheels to bring up the box with the option to return to the playlist in it.
6. Press this option to return to the playlist.

Now, I wonder what you think about regarding making changes to the playlist to make it easier to use and to be more consistent with the way the album list performs?

I thought about this idea:

When in playlist (such as party mode), could you possibly put a go to player option on the right hand side of the playlist underneath where the (greyed out in party mode) options Shuffle, Save, Clear, Repeat are situated?
Then it would just be a case of when in a playlist, press right, and because in a playlist the options Shuffle, Save, Clear, Repeat are greyed out, the cursor would land automatically on Player to press to go straight to the player.

Then would it be possible whilst in the player to press return and return straight to the playlist (such as party mode)?

These steps would then image the steps taken whilst in an album list.
The only difference would be the pressing to the right rather than the left to begin the process.

Another thought I had was how about adding some song function buttons to these album list and playlist menus whilst a song is playing?
So such as stop, fast forward, etc. That way a song could be stopped in a playlist by simply pressing right to get onto the menu and pressing stop.

I have had a look on the estuary skin, and whilst in an album list or a playlist the process is the same, ie: press left, the overlay menu appears and then you choose player to get to the player, and return to return to the album or play list. I thought seeing as you already had the space on the left hand side of the playlist under the options Shuffle, Save, Clear, Repeat, that this would be a good place to add extra options.
It would look really neat too.

Let me know what you think Bart, I would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Kind regards,
Robert.