Very early empeg's (beta3 and before?) had vertical menus - this is what people saw at the 1999 mp3 summit if you stopped by our booth. Feedback from initial testers and usability issues meant we moved to sideways menus before general release - and I'm pretty happy with them, despite arguing with Mike until I got quite red about how I preferred vertical ones ;)

Im sure you guys did a complete job researching people's reactions , but I think it might work with the left icon and larger letters for the Menu Items with a smooth scroll. It would be clearer and you could see it from a distance clearly or while distracted by driving. I' not convinced that side scrolling is all that natural to ANY interface.. The menus also stack up after a certain point and I think it is also wasting processor time doing the visualization in the back of cluttered drop scrollling menus


The other graphics are very pretty - one problem we do face is that we only have 1/4 of the screen space that the images posted use, and with this smaller resolution things get cramped *very* quickly. I do admit big icons for source, etc, would look very cute, but none of us are exactly talented graphic artists... if we could work out what we needed and what size we could use I suppose we could ask some of the (obviously talented!) people here to come up with some suggestions :)

I think everyone here is quite passionate about their empeg and eager to help in the process as much as you guys will allow. Let us know whatcha need. These graphics were rough and I blew them up double the size to make it clear. I cant make it at the dimensions of the screen if that will help.

of course hints on some tech stuff to make alternate displays and plug them in.. You guys ave more to worry aboout than making plugin architechure for us.

At some point in the future.. a dual menu system! You choice between vertical or horizontal! Thoughts?



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