If you open a bug/enhancement report for this idea, I will vote for it! On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:33 AM, cliveb < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. > > > -- > cliveb > > Transporter -> ATC SCM100A > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44671 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss >
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