Here are bugs you've identified.

overlay band name on band tile. I know the name is up top, but I don’t recognize a lot of those tile pics and have to go one by one trying to find the right one.

There is a setting to always show the titles on the items. On the home view press *, then go to Settings / User Interface / Libraries / General / Grid View Settings / Item Titles. Ensure this setting is set to Always Show. In your music library you will see titles for all your artists, but only if you're using the Artists (Grid) view - accessed by pressing * while in your library. The titles in the Artists (Presentation) view aren't honoring this setting. That's a bug 🐛

Here are new features you've identified that I'll made enhancement tickets for so we can work on them in the future.

also a “all songs” next to “albums”.

Create a new section that shows a selectable list of all the artist's songs.

when playing and play/pause is focused, if I could push “up” to focus the progress bar, and then left/right to fast fwd/rewind, or “ok” btn to enter a time to skip to (think, where I left off in this 20 hour long audiobook)

This has been on my mind ever since I first wrote the audio player. It's coming once we get the last of what I call "the foundation" items completed. In a nutshell, we needed the behind the scenes code to be improved before we could jump into adding more "advanced" functions to the audio player.

Movies section had some nitpicks too. Like wishing there was a quick bar when you focus a movie, or at least putting “un/mark watched” in the asterisk menu instead of having to drill into it.

We've had other people mention a similar menu in other locations. We've started calling it a context menu. We need to think more about how it interacts with existing * menus and all that, but it's another good idea.

Hope you found my complaining useful!

Very helpful, thank you!