I got to say first of all I like my iPod and the click wheel user interface is nothing but revolutionary. But there is one user interface bug that is still in the iPod even after all these years that is the biggest quirk for me. This is not a bug in a sense that something works incorrectly but a bug in a sense that it should be done differently because it is so obvious.

Here is how I most commonly encounter this problem. I start playing say a song. In the middle of the song I decide to browse somewhere else for whatever reason. Now I decide not to play anything else but to change the volume. This is where things get difficult. Right now I am in a menu item of some other album or artist. In order to change the volume I need to be on the screen of the currently playing song. I can either wait for about 5 seconds for the menu screen to timeout or I can browse to the top of the menu and click on "Now playing". I don't know about you but waiting for 5 seconds when I want something now is way too long. Now I browse to the "Now playing" item and change the volume. At this point it is impossible to easily get back to the album of the currently playing song. What if I want to change to some other song in the same album but because I clicked on the "Now playing" item and because it is right under the top level menu of the iPod, I would have to browse to my album all over again.

Technically this is not a bug. The iPod is actually operating correctly and consistently. It treats the "Now playing" menu item as if it was a song in itself. Clicking on it changes the position of the iPods memory of where you are in the menu. I think this is where Apple has made a big mistake. The iPod should ignore the "Now playing" item as a memorable menu position. Even if it is useful to remember this position (you want to look at the song you are playing and immediately go back to the top to continue browsing other songs) it should only keep this memory for a perceivably short time such as less than a second.

If someone from Apple is reading this please FIX this! Its too easy.