This was the MAIN reason I rooted my Hero... I couldn't agree more. It's a pain to pull the phone out when you're running mph on a treadmill to unlock it and stare at the glass to get the button right to advance. Sure you can get a bluetooth headset that does it but they can be a pain and the batteries run out. The Cyanogen rom on the Hero had that feature so that you can hard press the volume up or down and it would go forward or backward in your playlist. But I really don't feel like rooting just for that now that I have an Evo. I was hoping it would be a part of the phone by now...

It was sweet on my old BB Curve...

 

Check out Shake2PlayNext in the market. It allows you to skip to the next song by shaking the phone, and the acceleration sensitivity is adjustable. It is compatible with a large list of players.

 

Hi,

You can try this application : Next Song

 

Or you can stop spamming apps that have nothing to do with the thread.

 

Looks like a righteous answer to the question to me. App does what OP asked for, and this isn't the dev, playing sly either. You see something that I don't?

Suggest maybe that app and No Lock, free in the Market, will do the trick.

 

Wow. I was totally reading the wrong thread. I had this open at the same time as the one for using the volume button to control the camera shutter. Sorry man. I'll go back to my corner now.