A search function.
A search function to make it easier for finding objects in large music libraries.
Shawn Kernen
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rob
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I'd like to be able to search for an album or artist by entering a string in an entry box. A partial match maybe even with a simple wild card would be great.
So *im
would match Jim Croce as well as Tim Buckley
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Certainly no reason other than it hasn't been implemented yet ;-)
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Ralph Martin
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We can search for albums by initial letter - why not the same for artists? And why no free text search?
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Anonymous
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Should not be too strict - I have so many albums whose titles starts with "the". I would want the search to work even it I didn't type "the". As someone else suggested, matching artist and album name at the same time would also help.
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Kent Williams
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As I suggested to Dan, a compact searching box with drag & drop would make working with Ableton Live easier.
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Kent Williams
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Yes.
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Neil Bird
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Yes, it'd be nice to see an interactive (like google) matches-anything search (title, artist, genre, maybe filename, etc.).
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I merged Matt Jenkins idea into this one:
"Being able to search your database for artists, albums, albums of a specific genre, etc would be a huge bonus.
When you have thousands of albums spread amongst many hundreds of artists finding the album or artist within the artist and album displays is an onerous task. A simple search box that returns simple text matches for artist, album, genre, etc., would be a good start. Advanced searches where you can search for strings within the specific topics of artist, album, genre etc., would be even better."
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I agree. As more stuff is added to the interface, a search function becomes one of the easiest way of finding things.
I think it should be top level (accessible from any page) and it shouldn't just search for albums, artists etc.... it should also search for bliss concepts. E.g. search for 'settings' - suggests a settings page. Search for 'albums' - suggests the album overview page. Anyway, that's a vision, maybe first step would just be album/artist search as you say.
