Group by artist and grid view

[DerSeb]

The biggest issue I have with MM over the other Ultrastar versions is that it is much worse for browsing larger song libraries. The search function is great if you know what you want to sing, but sometimes I want to browse and it is also sub-optimal for controller input. The best way would be like it is in Vocaluxe, have a way to group the songs by Artists, and to have a grid view instead of the scroll view. Is this planned?

[kalixdev]

Hi, yes a Grid View should be possible in the future.

There already was some mockup for the UI, but not yet enough resources to implement it. Sadly Unity does not include a good component for a Grid View out of the box.
This is why Grid View is planned for later, when other promised features have been delivered.

[Riga]

UltraStar Play for windows allows you to quickly jump to songs based on the letter it starts with. There is a little menu in the top left that makes it soo much easier to sort songs then the current way of endless scrolling. I don't know why that was not imported into Melody.

[kalixdev]

You are right, the first versions of UltraStar Play had a list with letters.

However, this has been removed by now to reduce UI clutter.
Instead, the current approach is to type the letter on the keyboard to directly jump to songs (note that this works when not currently in the search text field).

[kalixdev]

> quickly jump to songs based on the letter it starts with

This has been improved in v1.4.4-beta8

When you type a single letter on the keyboard, then it will jump to the corresponding category in the song select (depends on song order, artist by default).
Similarly, `Shift + ArrowKey` can be used to jump to the next / previous category