Whilst your point stands, wouldn't it be easier to search for your artist as soon as you've selected your DLNA server rather than browse to the artist index first - especially as the search is for any artist and not specific to the index you're browsing (album artist vs track artist)?
Sorry I wasn't trying to say that your request isn't valid, any default other than Songs is better at the moment because the app fires off a UPnP search after every keystroke!
Maybe it's just a bad example, but why would you perform a search when you've found the artist in the list? Can't you just select the artist?
This will be a limitation of your media server; the better one's will display an A-Z index (if applicable) for you to choose from rather than the full list, although I'm not aware of any free ones that do this.
Sorry, I meant to say I did not find the artist in the list, suppose I was currently on C in the list of artists, but then I remembered a particular artist suppose starting with M - so it's easier to just tap the Search button than try to scroll down all the artists up to M.
If all you see is an A-Z listing then it's being generated by the media server (as below), but if the entire artist list is being displayed and a scroll bar or mini A-Z selection is available then that's being generated by the controller e.g. the scroll bar in BubbleUPnP.
