My two primary wishes for the iOS app are:

- Functionality parity for the other interfaces. It's more than inconvenient to not be able to do something as fundamental as set a track as a pick/neutral/non-pick while listening using your device. In my case, setting a track pick means pausing the music, going to a different room, launching Control:Mac, finding the album, editing the album, finding the track, setting the track value, saving the album, closing Control:Mac, returning to the listening room, and then unpausing the music. That's CRAZY for a system that's supposed to be high-end-convenient!

- A general usability study would eliminate countless unnecessary steps in the flow of using Control. One small example is setting a focus on a genre:
1. Tap the focus button
2. Tab Genre (at this stage, you have no focus criteria, so there's no reason to go to the intermediary menu that shows a list of genres in the focus, but you are taken there anyway. Why not go straight to the list of genres (which probably ought to be an expandable hierarchy, rather than the entire list of 800+ genres that must be scrolled every time).

As usual with M, top notch music experience, completely idiosyncratic UI.

While fixing these kinds of things from a development and testing point of view is somewhere between non-trivial, and not too bad, it would require that M look outside itself for common UI design patterns.

Sorry if this came across as somewhere between a suggestion and a complaint.


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