I have a pretty full ipod at about 30 gigs and have been a little frustrated by the ipod interface.

It seems that switching between albums and artists takes a LOOONG time if you have a lot of artists. On the ipod, scrolling speeds up and lets you get to the later letters faster, but it takes forever for me to go to an artist with a letter T or M since I have to scroll through thousands of artists. And then if you need to switch among albums, pressing menu does now take me one level back, but all the way to the begining again! Am I missing something or is there a better way to navigate (jump to a specific artist, or go back all albums of an artist from one instead of starting over?)

 

Sounds like a glitch to me. Try Updating your software and resetting the ipod. I know when i go into an artist then an album then hit menu it just goes back one level.

IE if i am in the songs on an album and hit menu i go back to the list of albums and menu again goes back to the Artist view.

Most people don't have thousands of artists on their ipod. Thousands of songs yes... but not artists.