Hi Peter, Xfade button is a fantastic feature that really has become almost as important as the Stop/Start button , the problem I have with it, it’s not available at all times when needed on iPhone in portrait mode if you don’t require lyrics screen, the iPhone is great for just playing music and the Xfade function is a NEED not a WANT to easily just select another song and Xfade to it, at the moment you can’t use the Xfade on iPhone if you disable the auto show lyrics as you don’t have any lyrics to show in your songs, if you are using ST3 as a Librarian or perhaps just a Party player or even DJ and you don’t need lyrics IPHONE becomes a perfect tool to use for that in PORTRAIT mode, this then becomes a great disadvantage to all those users.
My suggestion is make the Xfade and the Loop buttons available in playlists and song mode even if you get out of main screen that has lyrics , these two buttons should be available to the user at all times just like STOP/START because they are so important when playing songs for any occasion.