When I turn the MP3 player on, it starts playing my last played song [expected]. When I press the back button, I go to my album list [excepted]. When I press the back button again, I go to the menu [expected].
When I press back again, I go straight to my playing MP3.
When I press back I expect the same behavior as before. But when I press the back button, instead of my album list, I go straight to the menu. From this moment the back button will only switch me between my playing MP3 and the menu. Why can’t I reach the album list with the back button?
Reproduction steps:
Navigate to album and play first MP3 [Playing MP3 list is shown]
this is a very interesting finding about the player, you can also report this issue to sandisk so they can look into it further to see if its a normal behaviour or not.
Not so strange. The back button is used to climb back up the tree. Depending on where you are and how you got there, somtimes using the left button(when it has no other function) will take you back one step, while at other times it does nothing. In that regard it is somewhat inconsistant.
Think of it as navigating the branches of a tree starting at the root. From a branch or leaf, you can go back along the path you used to get there, but otherwise can’t jump directly from one branch to another, but must first go back to the root.
“It is possible to jump directly to the album list (see first post), but the behavior is not consistent.”
When you say album list, do you mean the list of albums for a specific artist? If so, if you choose artists, the artist you want,then choose the album you want, then click on the first song to start playing the album, if you press the back button once you get to list of songs for the album you started playing. If you then press the left button, you get the list of albums for that artist. Whereas if you chose the album directly from the album menu, then when you press the left button(after pressing the back button once) you get the complete list of albums on the player.
I think of it this way. Normally the left button should be used as the the button to go back, but when pressing the left button has a different function, then pressing the back button is needed. On older Sandisk players, rather than having the extra button labelled with a back arrow, it was labelled as the home buttom(on the Clip+ for example, there is a drawing of a house over the button).
For the issue I reported (see first post) it does not matter of the album is selected from the Albums menu or the Artists menu. The behavior is the same: The first time the back button navigates to the Album list, the second (and future) presses leads to the “Main Menu”.
Perhaps you can see my trouble in the following scenario:
If I want to select another album from the same artist, I need to do the following:
Press Back [Main menu is shown]
Press Enter [Music menu is shown]
Select Artist and press Enter [Artist is shown]
Navigate to the album I want to hear and press Enter [Album is shown]
Select MP3 and press Enter [Playing MP3 list is shown]
When the back button works the scenario is as follows:
Press Back [Album is shown]
Navigate to the album I want to hear and press Enter [Album is shown]
Select MP3 and press Enter [Playing MP3 list is shown]
Besides my “frustration” of how I would like the back button to work, should navigation behavior in consumer products be as consistent as possible. If it only once leads to the Album list, and all other times to the Main menu, it is not consistent.
I don’t really follow what problem you are having. When you are at the now playing screen you need to use the back button to get out. Once you are at the list of songs for the album though, then if you have navigated from the artists menu, pressing the left button gets you to the other albums by the artist.
There might be some bugs in the firmware though. Did you try downloading the firmware and manually installing it? sometimes the firmware in the player can become corrupted.