I’ve had a UI feature on my wish list for iPod for awhile. Simply, I frequently listen to my music using the “shuffle music” feature on the iPod (e.g. randomly play all the music that’s in that thing).
While listening, I will often come across a song that makes me think “man, that’s a great album, I’d like to listen to that right now”. Unfortunately, this is really painful to accomplish. You need to back out to the main screen, then drill into music/artists/album hierarchy to get to the album that’s current playing and then play it.
I find it hard to believe that I’m the only person that this happens to. It doesn’t seem like it’d be that difficult to have a method to “hop” to the parent album from a song being “now played”.
I understand that the iPhone and iTouch basically have this ability (e.g. you can “flip” album art over and see the entire album’s index. While I’ve never tried to actually accomplish this use case on either device, the demos I’ve seen imply that it’s probably possible for them). However, rumor has it that the newly revamped Nano and Classic interfaces have no optimizations here.
If true (I’ll get my hands on one to try myself eventually), it’s a real bummer.
