Comments on: Music Player UI http://ajaxian.com/archives/music-player-ui Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 17 May 2012 07:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Filmo http://ajaxian.com/archives/music-player-ui/comment-page-1#comment-270010 Filmo Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:00:09 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5425#comment-270010 videos demos with no audio suck. videos demos with no audio suck.

]]> By: ronin691 http://ajaxian.com/archives/music-player-ui/comment-page-1#comment-269922 ronin691 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:46:38 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5425#comment-269922 Software emulation of iRiver's "Choat"? http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/10/brando-brings-irivers-s7-choat-dap-to-the-states-at-last/ Software emulation of iRiver’s “Choat”?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/10/brando-brings-irivers-s7-choat-dap-to-the-states-at-last/

]]> By: broofa http://ajaxian.com/archives/music-player-ui/comment-page-1#comment-269915 broofa Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:11:42 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=5425#comment-269915 The only thing novel in Yensdesign's UI are the mouse gestures. (All music players have keyboard shortcuts). And, while cute, I think they're useability breaks down in a real-world application. As soon as you put other controls in the UI, you have to worry about the drag gesture being used for other things, like rearranging songs in a playlist. The only solution (?) is to reserve a bit of space in the UI where users would have to start the drag. That area/control essentially becomes a wierd sort of button where the behavior depends on what direction you drag when you press it. Such a control will be a bit strange to users, and nowhere near as intuitive as just have the classic forward/back buttons + volume slider. That said, it really felt like the drag gestures needed to be bi-directional. That is, if I started a drag-down to lower the volume, I wanted to be able to switch the drag direction to increase the volume. (i.e. have it behave like an invisible slider). Same thing for next/previous track gesture. The only thing novel in Yensdesign’s UI are the mouse gestures. (All music players have keyboard shortcuts). And, while cute, I think they’re useability breaks down in a real-world application. As soon as you put other controls in the UI, you have to worry about the drag gesture being used for other things, like rearranging songs in a playlist. The only solution (?) is to reserve a bit of space in the UI where users would have to start the drag. That area/control essentially becomes a wierd sort of button where the behavior depends on what direction you drag when you press it. Such a control will be a bit strange to users, and nowhere near as intuitive as just have the classic forward/back buttons + volume slider.

That said, it really felt like the drag gestures needed to be bi-directional. That is, if I started a drag-down to lower the volume, I wanted to be able to switch the drag direction to increase the volume. (i.e. have it behave like an invisible slider). Same thing for next/previous track gesture.

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