A search function.
A search function to make it easier for finding objects in large music libraries.
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@Andrew makes sense - I often do the same thing - noticing things I want to update - although not always with album art.
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Andrew Morrison commented
Would love this. When I stream my music via Logitech Media Server, I often have the album art showing on a materialised view in a web browser on my 50" TV (a great way to fully appreciate the album art - even bigger than the original LP covers!). I sometimes spot ones that are crap scans, back covers or even rubbish digital photos of sleeves, so I'm just about to start correcting those using Bliss.
It'd therefore be really handy if I could enter a search string for the specific album to jump straight to it in Bliss. This is my No. 1 feature request right now. Thanks
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Totally appreciate this - it's been on my radar a while.
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Jason Matousek commented
As a new user to Bliss, I'm really feeling the limitation of no search function. Even a first letter search for artists would be amazingly helpful.
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The closest thing is using search on the Tags page, but this is an exact match and it shows files, not albums. This might at least give you an idea what album it is!
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Nigel Goode commented
My wife asked me to play the album we always listen to, 'the one with the red curtains that's opera arias' ...
Neither of us could remember the name.
Is there a way to search by genre, so I could look for an opera record, rather than artist or "starts with"?
(Turns out it was "Classic FM - The Operas Greatest Arias", found after a Google search... -
Nathan Freedenberg commented
Please...with a cherry on top. A search function would make my life more bliss.
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rob commented
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 commented
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 commented
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 commented
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 commented
Yes.
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Neil Bird commented
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.