Alpha navigation input speed

Roon Software Feature Suggestions
#1

The alpha navigation feature is quite neat, but it could perhaps benefit from a slight re-design. If you–let’s say–want to get an artist starting with GOL, you press the ABC button to bring up the navigation, and press G, making a subconscious note of where the letter O is, which you want to type next. But the location of O moves, because not all letters are likely to be present in any given library following G. Therefore you have to spend time looking for where the O is now. The same thing repeats for the next letter.

This makes the operation slower than necessary, because the user can’t predict the next state.
A suggestion would be to have a full character list always present, with non-existing letters inactive (“greyed out”); in order to enhance the input speed.

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#2

I agree. The way it is now is sub-optimal IMO.

I also don’t want to have to press ABC every time. It’s just an irritating extra click.

#3

Without the ABC icon, how would it be triggered, esp. on a touch screen with no keyboard or mouse?

#4

It’s always there on C15 and Sooloos iPad app. Why can’t it be in Roon?

#5

Oh got you, you want all the selection letters permanently visible. I would not want that, I prefer the ABC icon approach.

#6

That said, if the alpha nav just replaced the scroll bar without taking up anymore screen space then I’d be happy with having a single row of alpha characters …

Provided they are not that small to make selection difficult on table sized screens.

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