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Lightning is an appealing idea for the shuffle symbol, definitely.  Another option would be something from a slot machine, though none of the relevant symbols (lemon, cherry, bar, seven) are quite distinctive enough...

The first thing that came to my mind when I thought about shuffle was dice, but since Play is using that, I think Cog might want its own symbol.  Unless -- we could totally nerd out and use Dungeons & Dragons polyhedral dice!    Probably not enough room for that, though.

Of course, there's also the symbol for chaos, which I believe is a circle with lines going in all eight cardinal directions...probably too close to Cog's wagon wheel.

What about a luck symbol, like a clover or a horseshoe?  (Aye, me lucky charms...)

Sounds great to me!  Makes intuitive sense and seems logical.

While we're on the topic of Shuffle, one question:  I know you're planning to redo the Shuffle code.  Will we be able to step backwards through the last few shuffle picks without disrupting the process?  Sometimes I'm busy while listening -- say, if I'm washing dishes -- and would like to find out what the last few songs were without causing the shuffle algorithm to reinitialize.

I just realized that I hadn't posted to this thread!  I do 90% of my listening in Cog, and I think it's a terrific program that's getting even better with every release.  It reminds me a great deal of SoundApp, which was always my MP3 player of choice on OS 9.

These days, the only time I break out iTunes is for encoding, tagging, and CD burning.  Cog has also been a great replacement for the only other SHN player for OS X, MacAmp Lite.  Occasionally, if I'm listening to a bootleg in FLAC or SHN format that was recorded at the wrong speed, I'll boot up MacAmp Lite so that I can speed-correct it on the fly;  I look forward, when the Cog plug-in system is user-available in 0.09/0.10, to the day that I can do that in Cog instead!

No prefs deleted here, it just worked!

One of the earliest Mac OS audio players, SoundApp, actually had a function whereby you could convert your entire playlist into the format of your choice*.  It was an extremely handy trick (one that I still use), and I've occasionally wished that Cog could do the same, since doing the same kind of batch conversion is pretty kludgy in iTunes and Audacity.  But I suspect that it's probably not the kind of functionality that's central to Cog's mission -- though Cog and SoundApp are, in many ways, programs that share a similar spirit.

*(well, as long as it was into .aiff, .wav, .sd2, .au, or one or two others -- SoundApp wasn't an MP3 encoder or anything like that)

Both my computer and my girlfriend's iBook are running Tiger, and both give error beeps when attempting to use the "Home" and "End" keys in Cog 0.07 (and earlier versions), so I assume that if it's "fixed" in Leopard, it is indeed at the OS level.

Would it take much to add a bit of extra code so that it works in Tiger too, or has that boat left the shipyard?

Ooh, that'd be awesome.  As I've said elsewhere, I don't plan to switch to Leopard for a while -- I've got too much stuff that I need, or at least like, to do in Classic.

I really hope 0.08 isn't Leopard-only -- I thought you'd decided to postpone that until 0.09+?