Enhanced browsing of Home Music Share

[Hazenhart]

When browsing Home Music Share in the WiiM Home app (example: NAS hosted files using Minimserver), allow a long press and drag to quickly scan to different places in the alphabet, or provide another means to quickly browse lengthy lists of alphabetically sorted tags (artist, track, etc) by being able to jump directly to an alphabetic position in the list. The Sonos app has/had a good example of this with a very minimal scroll bar position on the right side of the list that shows the current alphabet position when holding a finger down on it. It could then be drug down immediately to the desired letter of the alphabet in a single move.

Right now if I want to browse my "Artist" listings starting with the letter "T," I have to swipe up ~10+ times to get down to the "T's"

 

[simbun]

When browsing Home Music Share in the WiiM Home app (example: NAS hosted files using Minimserver), allow a long press and drag to quickly scan to different places in the alphabet, or provide another means to quickly browse lengthy lists of alphabetically sorted tags (artist, track, etc) by being able to jump directly to an alphabetic position in the list.

The latest WHA update introduced a jumplist for the USB media library, which I expect to see rolled out to other services soon.
If you have the licensed version of MinimServer you can implement this on the server side (much more efficient) by using the alphaGroup setting.

 

[Burnside]

An alphabetic jump list has just been implemented for usb media, so maybe it’ll come to other sources too.

You can also set the “alphaGroup” setting in Minimserver to group your lists alphabetically and in effect provide you with a jump list - see “alphabetical grouping” on this page https://minimserver.com/ug-browsing.html#Alphabetical grouping

I’ve set mine to “all” but you can group whatever you want as per the settings

 

[Burnside]

The latest WHA update introduced a jumplist for the USB media library, which I expect to see rolled out to other services soon.
If you have the licensed version of MinimServer you can implement this on the server side (much more efficient) by using the alphaGroup setting.

Just beat me, and I should have known you’d be along soon

 

[Hazenhart]

Thank you @simbun and @Burnside
I was not aware of this indexing feature in Minimserver (I need to spend more time learning its capabilities). I just made this adjustment and it works great.

I do think the WHA should be updated to reflect the USB browsing changes though...