Facebook elevator music
Some things are meant to be done sequentially
This is not about the music listened at Facebook’s HQ elevators. It’s about the digital equivalent of having to move down from level 100 to level 1 and up again in a fast elevator just because you forgot your phone at the reception.
Doesn’t this happen to you every day? You are scrolling the Facebook feed and you stop at a video/audio you want to listen. You press play.
You move on.
Then another one comes up. What do you do? Rewind a la Irréversible only to forward to the same spot again.
Audio should be liberated from text. Since listening to two things at the same time makes no sense, one of the following should happen:
- Each new audio stops any prior one: no changes needed in the interface.
- 1 + you display the current track on a small fixed position in your screen.
- best of all, if possible, generate a list of tracks/videos as you scroll. Something like on tapely.
That 3rd point would be really interesting if you are seeing a profile page where it has many videos amongst the posts as you scroll. A dynamic audiovisual list from the corresponding posts!
