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Why are you dividing it up into so many sub-levels of the tree like that? Why not just put all the artists at the root?

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Because that's how I want to organise it .

Seriously, there's more than one way of doing things, and I personally prefer to have an extra layer of menus with a couple of dozen entries in each than to have one huge menu and have to scroll through 500 or so artists (okay, it's only half that because the menus wrap around..) Using the letter keys on the remote is often counterproductive in this, as I like to sort by surnames (hmm, I remember having a "record-store order" discussion last year). I don't expect everyone to share my preferences, but at least respect them!