Yea thats exactly what im asking for... to be able to scroll through the now and next list while a song in that playlist is currently playing.
Just to be clear, the Now & Next display is showing you songs in the current running order (the collection of songs you've added, either by selecting/inserting/enqueueing playlists or individual songs.) I don't think the player really has a concept of the currently playing playlist, as the songs you've added to a running order may have come from many playlists, or may have even been selected individually.

Having said that, what you're asking for (a lot like how you can scroll through the songs on your Karma without skipping tracks) seems very possible with some software I'm working on. A program I'm hoping to release in the next few weeks already has the ability to (among other things) peek an arbitrary number of songs ahead in the running order and get the song's tag information. It also has the ability to display this information on the screen in a customizable format. All that's missing right now is some UI work to allow the user to walk through the track list. I'm not sure that'll make it in for the initial release (I've already added so much to it my head is spinning), but if it doesn't, I'll keep this in mind as something add in the future.
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