Don’t let the title fool you… much. I mean, I do like the service even if it has some limitations (to list these is for another post). It plays my music, so it does its job. However, there’s one little thing that annoys me. It’d probably be something insignificant for most of you; this little thing is the fact that every time I open my Cloud Player, I have to select and choose my albums to be sorted by Artist and not by Album which is its default setting.
Now, you may say that it’s not so hard to just move my mouse over the “Sort By” option, and it isn’t, but it gets annoying over time. It’s a basic function. I’m a developer so I know what it takes to develop something. I know people can think that implementing something is just as easy as requesting it. That said, I go back to what I just said, it’s a basic function. I cannot believe that when the engineers designed the Cloud Player they didn’t take into consideration what the user’s sorting preference would be. They could’ve added a “Your Cloud Player Settings” page where the user could set his/her Cloud Player global preferences, or maybe just a radio button in the “Your Amazon MP3 settings” page where he/she could set their sorting preference and save it in the database… but this is all they have:

I’ve sent the ACP team feedback TWICE some time ago, but I guess that, if they really read users’ feedback, this kind of request currently sits in their (very) low priority list… so who knows if they will ever implement it.
You know, if they don’t want to create a record in their DB with such setting, IMO, an easy (and probably temporary) implementation of this would be to write a cookie on the user’s computer, and every time the user loads his/her Cloud Player, the application would read the cookie and sorting would automatically be applied. At least that’s how I would approach this issue.
So, as of today, this is my only “beef” with the ACP… meh.