alphabet that is used to access listings of music artists associated with media content that is stored on the portable media player 110 or which may be otherwise accessed through the player in this example the alphabet icons are arranged as a scrollable list on the display screen 218 however in alternative arrangements icons for the entire alphabet may be displayed on a non scrollable screen it is emphasized that the use of an alphabet as the high level entry point to a 3 d space is illustrative and that other types of entry points may also be used depending on the requirements of a given implementation in the screen 900 shown in fig9 the user 105 has selected the letter u2018 a u2019 to explore artists 39 names that begin with that letter as the user 105 presses the g pad 225 to zoom into the 3 d space 400 gui objects 1006 appear in the distance as shown in screen 1000 in fig1 as the user 105 continues to zoom in the objects appear to get closer by increasing in size with more detail becoming apparent as details become discernible the user can use the directional positions on the g pad 225 to steer up down left or right as the zoom continues to steer to a gui object or group of objects of interest an illustrative group of gui objects 1106 is shown in fig1 which comprises four fictitious artists as the user 105 continues to zoom and steer a path more detailed information becomes available as shown in fig1 such details may include for example information such as representative graphics and logos 1206 for the band descriptive text and the like representative audio content such as a sample of.