While the iPod style A-Z scrolling is now very fast, it is also very hit and miss.
It requires quite a bit of scrolling to find a particular artist as you normally overshoot/undershoot a couple of times before finding the desired option.

As bug https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12083 shows, there is more then one other user who has reverted to using the file system for artist organisation to allow fast selection.

I have my music organised as follows.

C:\music\0-9\ (all artists beginning with numbers)
C:\music\A\ (all artists beginning with A)
C:\music\B\ (all artists beginning with B)
....
C:\music\Z\ (all artists beginning with Z)

This allows a quick 2 step section process, where I select a folder from A to Z and then select an artist from the list.


Can I request a "Large Library Browsing Mode" where Browse Artist,Album becomes a 2 step process.

i.e.

Browse Artist  
0-9
A
B
C
...
Z

Then I select a letter and get all artists beginning with that letter.

I can now do a slow scroll through the first list and a quicker scan through the small list of artists.

Making this optional would satisfy the users who are happy with the current selection scheme.