waffle

When I scroll that long song or genre or composer list and notice how, yes, I in fact have four covers of Stardust, please also show the disambiguating factor directly following the song’s name, in grey. Like: “Stardust [Frank Sinatra]”, “Stardust [Nat King Cole, 3:17]”, “Stardust [Nat King Cole, 3:13]”, etc. (Or at least allow me to tap and hold to bring up some overlay with slightly more information, à la links in Safari.)

CoverFlow is kickass, but in horizontal mode, the biggest tap area by far is given to the album cover. A single tap brings up or hides the shuffle/repeat/scrubber controls and a double tap flips around to the album songs/rating side. I don’t believe this to be optimal usage of your space.

I posit that the middle area can easily be used instead for gestures. Tapping — or double tapping — plays/pauses. Swiping left and right changes the track. Pinching in and out raises and lowers the volume. I’m even open to orientation-independent considerations, for when you’ve just thrown your iPhone on the desk and reach out once in a while to fiddle with the controls — swiping to change the track is the only real problem, and it could easily be transformed to ‘twisting’ clockwise or counter-clockwise with two fingers, as if tracing short opposite segments of a circle.

While a playlist’s current sorting order carries over wonderfully from iTunes, please let me also re-sort it.