In spite of the fact that she never usually touches anything I set up without a cheat-sheet and at least a brief instruction tour, Susan managed to navigate through XBMC’s menu to play some music. Not to detract from Susan’s initiative and skill, but kudos to the XBMC team for making it easy enough to use for a complete XBMC-newbie to be able to achieve results.
One reason why this was such an achievement is that it involved the use of the “Menu” key in XBMC. “Menu” (usually) returns the operator to the top menu, or steps back a menu layer in multi-layered menus. Trick is that the “Menu” button on the XBox DVD Remote is a crappy little sub-button at the lower-left-hand corner of the navigation section (arrow buttons). Not easy to find.
I had left the thing on the System Status page, and Susan got back to the main menu, selected My Music, saw the music cued up, and pressed “Play”. Might not seem like much, but she gave it a go and won — and for that I’m proud of her. Good one babe!
Crossed Wires 