Just got this today, and here are some suggestions, mostly a couple of things that have already been mentioned:
Change behaviour of the touch controls/locking
Change it so that it continuously scrolls, and that the speed at which it scrolls at is proportional to the distance from the centre (already suggested). Make it so that you press the power to lock/unlock, or at least get rid of the swipe-to-unlock UI feature – with the sluggish UI, it’s hard to determine whether this swipe was performed successfully or not. Hitting the play/pause button in a menu should not play the selected song, it should play/pause appropriately.
Menus should wrap instead of bounce back
Pretty self-explanatory. It’s annoying to have to go all the way left instead of just wrapping to the other end.
Variable font sizes
Allowing us to change the sizes of the font (even just in typical intervals such as “Small”, “Medium”, and "Large) would greatly benefit those of us that like seeing more info, and those of us that want to see more songs listed at once.
Menu options
Allow us to put a menu like Songs on the main menu, and have left-right scrolling scroll through the alphabet. I, for one, rarely use Artists/Albums, and would rather have an easy way to access the Songs menu to browse through all my songs.
Support album art transparency
White stripes are ugly.
Speed up UI
I know this is categorized as a known issue, but I can’t stress how slow the UI is right now. Trying to scroll through a small 300-song list takes forever, and the framerate seems rather low. The font smoothing is kind of awkward and seems slow. Do whatever it takes to boost the FPS of the UI up to par.
Modify current playing UI
The touch controls right now are simply too sensitive for regular use. I skip tracks by accident way too much. Make the track skipping be based on swipes rather than taps, and that’ll be a great first step. Centre the text displayed, and have everything scroll, or do what the iPod Nano used to do, which is display track/artist then change to track/album. At least, make the track title larger to make it a little nicer to look at.
I know I made a lot of suggestions, but I really do think this is a rig with tremendous capacity for improvement, and I have trust in you guys, knowing what was done with the Clip/+.
