>Very very very originally, the player did have vertical menus;
>horizontal are better, given the controls (or so we decided after playing with both quite a lot).

Yeah, the horizontal menus are Ok. but the human eye just doesn't work that well for horizontally scrolling playlists... way too much distraction to have any sort of continuity to the visual text.

Vertically scrolled playlists are MUCH easier for human eyes to sift through.. everything lines up evenly on the left, and the eye can rapidly scan the entries above/below.. That's why hijack uses vertical scrolling for it's menus, as well.

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