I like both of those suggestions.

For the second one, I think what you're saying is: "When I use the Tweak Order feature to find a matching artist or genre, I'd like it to pull from the whole player rather than just the current playlist." I agree, I think that makes a lot of sense. It would tend to make the playlist longer, I think, and they'd have to put some code in there to make sure it didn't just pull a dupe of a current playlist item (so that the playlist doesn't suddenly contain two copies of the song), but it would be do-able.

Regarding your first suggestion: While we're on the subject of stuff popping up on the screen, I wish to "second" a gripe I heard posted elsewhere: When you're choosing to shuffle/unshuffle from the main menu (as opposed to the remote), there's no feedback as to which mode you just switched it into. It doesn't flash "shuffle off" or "shuffle on" when you hit it from the menu, only when you hit it from the remote. Now you'd think that you'd KNOW which one you just chose, and that's true. But you end up double guessing yourself because the menu just says "on" or "off", and now you're not sure... "did I just turn it from on to off or vice-versa?"

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Tony Fabris