Not to belabor the point, but here’s what the Theater looks like when actually playing a song. Forget the kinds of visualizations you’re used to in iTunes or Windows Media Player. The only activity on this screen is the time counter. Wait a minute or two, though, and you can watch the Seagate logo putter around when the screen saver kicks in. Slick.
The Theater does insert a two-second pause between music tracks. There’s no way in the current Theater to remove this pause. Similarly, there’s no provision for cross-fading tracks or assembling a playback queue as you navigate music folders. Reluctantly, Seagate admits that it sees the Theater as more of a photo player than a music player. The music serves as soundtracks for photo slideshows, more or less.