new main menu

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I don't believe it ever worked in any of the places you've listed it as "not working".

That may well be true. Anyway, the way things are structured now, this is a little more problematic than before. Before the change, turning the player on I got to the file browser, where the quick menu works. Now, I'm in the main menu where it doesn't work. Ok, I probably was misled by the "playlist" entry in the main menu. The better way to my playlists seems to be via the "files" entry (file browser) That way, I can change my shuffle setting via the quick menu as usual. And it's just one click more than before.

I love to have the files and database on top level. It was quite a bit of clicking before to change from one mode to the other. So I am happy with the new structure over all, it's just hard to get used to it after years of using the old interface. I keep pressing the A-B button to get to the settings, finding myself in the main menu. Which is the new way to get to the settings anyway Just a little more clicking. I guess we'd need more buttons on our DAPs, I can't figure out an over all superior solution. It seems it is not possible to have short ways to all three, settings menu, quick menu and switching from files to database and back.  

As for the playlist vs files entry on top, I'd certainly prefer 1.) files 2.) database 3) bookmarks because I rarely use the bookmark stuff. All I really need is the resume function, but others will differ for sure. I'm quite sure I never used the more advanced bookmark function besides resume. Then again, it won't be too hard for me to scroll down one line to get to the files.

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[bascule]

You can always configure it to start in the File Browser

[tab]

Thanks for the tip, I just did this. Helps a little, but of course still no "one button click" access to the settings. Anyway, I will get used to it sooner or later.

[Mikerman]

While I understand that one may set the Files screen as the default page or eliminate one's bookmarks entirely to have the Files listing on top in the Main Menu, I guess those options kind of seem like kludges if it might make sense to have the Files selection on top in the Main Menu, for ease of use generally.

But perhaps there are people out there who use the Bookmarks selection more than the Files selection, and that's why the decision was made to place Files second?  It just seems somewhat counterintuitive.  Hence my original inquiry.

[Yotto]

I personally use the bookmark section more often than the files section.  Far more often.  So I personally have been saved a keyclick with the new change.

Of course, my beef with the new menu system is that when I stop playing a track and want to go to a different bookmark, I'm almost never on the "bookmarks" menu because I frequently view the file tree while listening.  Therefore, when I stop, it goes to the file tree, and when I hit "menu" it's on "Files" which is the single least likely option I will want, considering I was *just in the file tree and obviously didn't want to be there*.  But that's a different topic.