The Juicy Cow

I don’t know about you, but personally I use the Apple Remote Control everyday. It came very handy with my Mac Book Pro and iTunes. I have 500+ albums loaded into iTunes and I do an extensive usage of the “random” function. So I always have a random play list going on as a music background.

My remote control is always around my mouse so I can get my hand on it easily and skip to the next random track. So far so good.

When it gets annoying is when the random play list takes you to a nice track and that you feel like you’d like to listen to the rest of the album… At the moment what you need to do is:

- Stop your work in progress.
- Open iTunes.
- Go to the control menu.
- Deactivate the random.
- Hide iTunes.
- Go back to work

I’m quite lazy and I get distracted from my main occupation pretty easily so that solution doesn’t work for me.

Instead, Apple engineers should add a simple button to the remote, there is plenty of room and that won’t damaged the sleeck design

This new control would just binarily trigger the random function. on/off.

I think it would make a lot of sense, no only to me, but to every user that uses the random function. The remote control needs to evolve, we overtook dady’s remote control (12 tracks cd in the hi-fi system, needs to control volume, play/pause/stop, next and previous track) a long time ago and today devices should be improved regarding the fact that we have to deal with a massive amount of data (MP3s…).

That’s all I have to say. It’s just a remote control after all. Now back to work.

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