My VW is this way and it’s infuriating. It drives me nuts that Down is Next, it’s so backwards.
Volume should be up/down, and track left/right.
I’m curious if the left/right would be language dependent? English is left to right, so Right would be Next. Would Hebrew and Arabic be the opposite since they’re right to left languages?
I have only had one car, a 2021 Seat Leon, qnd the media controls are great, but spread out on the steering wheeel…
The volume control is located on the left side, it is a wheel, roll it up, volume goes up, roll it down, volume goes down, push the wheel, and the music is paused. Next/Previous buttons are located on the right side of the steering wheel, works great!
Now, if only it didn’t have touch controls for everything outside the steering wheel…
It drives me nuts that Down is Next, it’s so backwards.
How is that backwards? If you have music in a playlist in a media player app (or iPod or other MP3 player), the next song is underneath the one you’re currently playing.
Down is next because it’s a list of songs with the first song at the top and the last at the bottom.
Frankly it’s the orientation that makes the most sense when you consider it given most people will be listening from a streaming service, but back when CDs were a thing the songs weren’t considered a list but tracks numbered from 1 to n. The up button incremented the track number and so it made sense for up to be next.
Going even further to tapes, fast forward and rewind literally moved the tape left to right/right to left, and so it made sense for them to be right and left respectively, however now it makes less sense other than being what older people are used to
My VW is this way and it’s infuriating. It drives me nuts that Down is Next, it’s so backwards.
Volume should be up/down, and track left/right.
I’m curious if the left/right would be language dependent? English is left to right, so Right would be Next. Would Hebrew and Arabic be the opposite since they’re right to left languages?
I have my now old VW because their design was so intuitive. Sad how much worse they’ve become in the past 10 years in design and quality
I have only had one car, a 2021 Seat Leon, qnd the media controls are great, but spread out on the steering wheeel…
The volume control is located on the left side, it is a wheel, roll it up, volume goes up, roll it down, volume goes down, push the wheel, and the music is paused. Next/Previous buttons are located on the right side of the steering wheel, works great!
Now, if only it didn’t have touch controls for everything outside the steering wheel…
How is that backwards? If you have music in a playlist in a media player app (or iPod or other MP3 player), the next song is underneath the one you’re currently playing.
Oof yes, my Kia ev6 too. Down is next. In my BMW up was next.
Down is next because it’s a list of songs with the first song at the top and the last at the bottom.
Frankly it’s the orientation that makes the most sense when you consider it given most people will be listening from a streaming service, but back when CDs were a thing the songs weren’t considered a list but tracks numbered from 1 to n. The up button incremented the track number and so it made sense for up to be next.
Going even further to tapes, fast forward and rewind literally moved the tape left to right/right to left, and so it made sense for them to be right and left respectively, however now it makes less sense other than being what older people are used to