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calarco3
Trending Lyricist I
June 19, 2017

Adding to queue

  • June 19, 2017
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Can we please have the option to choose what tapping a song in the list does. It used to be that when I tap the song I would get an option menu to added to the end of the Q, play now and now it just instantly play goes to the end of my queue and start playing that song or worse entire albums. This is crazy. I understand it's because dumb people don't understand how a queue works but it destroys the controller for people that have an idea of what's going on. Please let us choose what happens, i liked the menu but it would be even better if we could choose a default action for tapping song then the three dots gives you the little menu.
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    Alan_6
    Prodigy II
    February 18, 2018
    Locking the queue would be a smart option, but getting the queue controls "right" and having sensible defaults would be a start (limiting user choice is good design, good UI/U design is vital).

    Consistency with queue behaviour is not something Sonos does well. We're still working around mistakenly thinking that the design principle is "click on something to play it and do the most sensible default, and the queue lives until it expires", when the reality is a bit different (eg. the useful but shouldn't-be-a-default clicking an album track to "play from here", or the face-palming expired queue "play next" inserting).

    Where Sonos are consistent is in keeping the same buttons regardless of context or relevance (eg. "add this existing favourite to favourites" options, or the utterly useless expired-queue "play next" option). Given that there's been little change in the last 18 months, this is obviously not a priority for Sonos. I'd love to have seen the user testing for the v7 release.
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      Grand Maestro
      February 19, 2018
      I always enjoyed the original 2005 Queue behavior, but this seemed illogical to the ITunes crowd that embraced the “Play from here” model. I never use iTunes because of this behavior. Early on I tried an iPod for a little while, found it to be very hard to use, mostly due to that “Play from here” behavior, handed the thing back to its owner, and never looked back.

      “Play from here” makes sense to an album oriented person. I have a friend who views an album as a complete work of art that should be played in its entirety — tracks are meaningless. I, on the other hand, am track oriented and I can’t understand why the unwanted “Play from here” track(s) are always on the front end of the disc.

      I’m sure that SONOS has some market research data that convinces them that the Apple interface is the way to maximum profit.

      Sure, I can slog through the SONOS options and add my single track to the Queue, but this is more work for me. I do notice that hard core Apple users seem to relish an excuse to stroke their device and don’t mind endlessly climbing down lists of options. I prefer minimum work user interfaces.

      By the way, I can use Apple products when necessary. I’m currently typing on an iPad that I had to buy in order to develop some iPad specific applications and I’m too lazy to move to my computer and use a real keyboard. There is zero music stored here. For music listening I use the SONOS controller.
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