My root schemes are simple affairs, designed for for quick find and play...
Audio, for example, is [album artist (auto)] by letter, [album artist (auto)] and [album]
It has all duplicates filtered out atm (under review) and a seperate root "Albums" view that has no exclusions, just mt=audio
I find the single letter view works better for me in browser views (easier to scan visually) than the "alphabet" method
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My tree is a bit of a mess atm while I face up to the awful possibility of there being no "favourites" system in v12.
Previously, my list would contain shortcuts to to few choice smartlists neatly buried away under playlists. Go there, hit the play button, move along... So swift, so simple. I'd be playing music in three mouse clicks. Now it's countless mouse clicks to get at the smartlist... not so good, so I'm experimenting a bit...
Adding new root schemes makes a real mess of the new tree too, double dose of not so good...
I'll let you know how the dust settles. Things are so bad without a faves list I can't believe v12 will ship without one to be honest. History has trained me to have a contingency plan in place though.
I still want to keep my root schemes as simple as possible...
I still want to keep the tree clutter to a minimum...
there's a bitter battle being fought atm, because I also want the minimum click count to get at what I want....
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If the top level nodes won't auto expand when selected, perhaps they could be made to drop down when hovered over for a few seconds? like those 'personalised' menus that microsoft uses around and about in their software. A slow second click expands the node, but then there's always the chance of sending the entire audio/image/video list into playing now...