I posted this in the ICE3 thread, but this seems like a good time to re-run it:
I'd like a front end that would work similarly to Front Row, only using the touch screen.
Make it use my iTunes library (since Home Share can now automatically sync my purchases) and properly render the character substitutions iTunes makes in the file system.
Have all the music controls on the Music page so I don't have to tap twice to find them.
Make the music controls mimic the functionality of an iPod or iTunes button presses. ICE3 needlessly deviates from iPod/iTunes (and for that matter, most other players) conventions.
Have it properly parse the iTunes library for Music, Movies and TV shows. The last iTunes update broke ICE3, which must have hard-coded the Movies path.
For album art, have it use either or both a JPG in the folder or in the MP3 metadata.
For longer term I would like to embed Garmin Mobile PC in the front end.
I would like to have an OBD II setup that allows me to select parameters to display and to calculate things like instantaneous and average fuel MPG.
What I don't want is the complexity of other front ends like Road Runner or Centrafuse. Make the screens immediately obvious how to navigate and control functions. I loved the UI simplicity and straightforward design of Neon Boombox, but the dev quit on it before all the bugs were killed and I couldn't keep using it.
I would enthusiastically volunteer to Beta test your front end. Good luck on your efforts and I sincerely hope they bear more fruit than AMP Car FrontEnd, Neon BoomBox and ICE3 which have all withered due to neglect of the original developers.
