JHC;279028 Wrote: 
> My lists of artists is almost 2000 long. The controller scrolls lists
> nicely and the acceleration feature helps, but no amount of
> acceleration really makes scrolling through 2000 items very nice.
> 
> I was wondering if there might not be a way to give us a way when we're
> scrolling artists (or other really long lists), to jump forward to the
> next letter in the alphabet...
There is already a fairly straightforward way to get all artists (or
albums, etc) starting with a given letter: the Search mechanism. But
IMHO it takes rather too many button presses, and with my somewhat
smaller library (about 400 artists) it's quicker to just scroll the
main list.

Having a way to get quickly to a particular letter of the alphabet
would be a godsend, but I can't say I much like your suggested method.
I guess it would be better than nothing, though.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the Rio Karma portable
player got this right years ago. Its top menu was an A-Z arrangement,
so you could start by selecting the initial letter of the required
artist. In addition, the first item in the top level menu is "all
artists": selecting that gives you a complete scrollable list.

In concept the Controller could easily operate in an inverse of this
approach: the top level menu is the entire scrollable list (ie. as it
is now), with an additional first menu item being "A-Z". Selecting the
"A-Z" option would then display a scrollable alphabet of initial
letters.


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