[Dave McCrea]

Some bands organize their songs by chart number instead of name. In those situations it would be useful if the user could add numbers to the Alphabet List to more quickly locate a song called by number by the band leader. 

For example if numbers (eg 100, 200, 300, 400, etc) could be added to the alphabet list, they would sort before A-Z and it would be much faster to locate and load a song (eg. finding number 435 by starting at 400) than scrolling through the list starting a "0". I appreciate that the user would have to create placeholder songs with the titles "100"  "200" "300"  "400" etc. corresponding to the entries in the edited alphabet list for this to work. 

In bands with hundreds of songs organized by chart number, this would be a big help. If the user had control of the alphabet list they could decide on the optimum interval between number entries (eg, by 50's or 100s, etc.).

Great program! Thanks for considering

[Zubersoft]

I can consider it, although the nature of these changes is tedious, as I start having to add more and more settings to give users fine control over the behavior of the alphabet list. The logic for determining where to jump to when a letter is pressed would also be negatively impacted by this change, as I have an exception for when "#" is tapped, but if I start placing numbers in the alphabet list, then I have to have a lot more logic to figure out where to jump to when a number if pressed versus a letter. There is also the issue of the width of the alphabet bar. If I start inserting 100, 200, etc, that's three characters instead of just a single character, so the bar would have to dynamically expand it's width, but the layout is statically defined (as you get better layout performance from a fixed width), so I would have to make changes across quite a few UIs that have the alphabet bar on them. I'm just trying to call out a few of the many changes that would have to change to incorporate this.

On a side note, you can long press the # icon, then tap 4, then tap 0, then tap 0 if you want to jump to a song starting with 400. You can also change the behavior under Settings->Library Settings->Show Extended Letter List with Tap if you want a single tap to bring up the letter list.

Mike

[Dave McCrea]

I can consider it, although the nature of these changes is tedious, as I start having to add more and more settings to give users fine control over the behavior of the alphabet list. The logic for determining where to jump to when a letter is pressed would also be negatively impacted by this change, as I have an exception for when "#" is tapped, but if I start placing numbers in the alphabet list, then I have to have a lot more logic to figure out where to jump to when a number if pressed versus a letter. There is also the issue of the width of the alphabet bar. If I start inserting 100, 200, etc, that's three characters instead of just a single character, so the bar would have to dynamically expand it's width, but the layout is statically defined (as you get better layout performance from a fixed width), so I would have to make changes across quite a few UIs that have the alphabet bar on them. I'm just trying to call out a few of the many changes that would have to change to incorporate this.

On a side note, you can long press the # icon, then tap 4, then tap 0, then tap 0 if you want to jump to a song starting with 400. You can also change the behavior under Settings->Library Settings->Show Extended Letter List with Tap if you want a single tap to bring up the letter list.

Mike

I understand the complications. I didn't know about the long press # and then a number. That is useful and it helps! 
We have a few charts in the 1000s. To ensure a proper numerical sort, my charts are numbered with four digits with a leading zero for charts < 1000. (eg 0245). 
When I long press #, only a small box appears with 0 and 1 visible (Android). Then pressing the 0 in small box brings up the 0-9 selection.  So if I press 0 then 4, the first chart in the 0400s is at the top of the screen (happens to be 0416 in the book I'm looking at). This works very well and I will use this method all the time. 
Thanks!

[Zubersoft]

Sure thing, glad to hear my suggestion helped.

Mike