[Empeg-general] Re: Playlist Navigation

[Tony Fabris]

Maybe I've misinterpreted more than once, as this isn't something that came upon me all of a sudden with this one post.

No, you haven't misinterpreted me. There are many times when I have specifically said, "Don't do it that way, do it my way instead." So your point is valid.

My purpose for those posts is to defend the player's design. Not to say that someone is wrong for wanting it to work differently, I'm merely saying that it was meant to work a certain way. It may be very flexible, but it's only flexible within its design constraints.

If they kept adding features every time somone wanted it to work differently, the player software would be a complete mess. Any mature UI design is a careful balance that falls somwhere in between the two extremes of the designer's original intent and user's wildest pie-in-the-sky expectations. My purpose is to try to steer new users toward the "designer intent" side of the equation.