Improve navigation/scrolling in large folders

[edechamps]

In my Infuse (running on Apple TV 4K 3rd Gen, connected to a Jellyfin instance), I routinely deal with extremely large folders. My main Jellyfin folder has 1000+ elements in it.

Infuse doesn’t provide an easy way to easily find something in such large folders, as far as I can tell.

Possible ways to improve navigation in such folders may include:

• When holding the up/down button in the remote, show the name of the item at the current scroll position while scrolling (so that I know when to stop, when scrolling a sorted list)
  • Currently, Infuse only shows a dotted vertical bar on the right side. That’s not helpful.
• Provide a way to quickly jump to a specific letter (A, B, C…).
  • Official Jellyfin clients have this and it works quite well.

[NC_Bullseye]

@edechamps

Provide a way to quickly jump to a specific letter (A, B, C…).

This is being looked into but it’s a Jellyfin issue and they’ve been contacted.

Alphabet scrolling?

Infuse will include an alphabet scrollbar when browsing in the Library or a Plex server. Emby and Jellyfin require a small technical change on the server side for Infuse to display these alphabet scrollbars, and we have communicated with the respective teams about this. Emby has expressed interest in making this small change for a future update and once this happens we can enable this feature for Emby.

[edechamps]

After some more testing I realized that the “List view” option does not do much when using a Jellyfin server, but it does work when I point Infuse to an SMB network share instead. When holding the down button in list view, scrolling a large folder is doable as the names are still shown while scrolling, making it possible to know when to stop.

So my advice to users with this problem is: use a network share, not Jellyfin.