An Advanced Search bug:
If you search for albums, then go to any page beyond page #1, the
results shown are tracks.
And I'm guessing that the following also wasn't intentional:
All artists on each album are listed in the album results, rather than
the album artist. I suppose this is probably a
If you search for albums, then go to any page beyond page #1, the
results shown are tracks.
Thanks, should be fixed now.
All artists on each album are listed in the album results, rather than
the album artist. I suppose this is probably a leftover from when
Advanced Search only searched for
I notice that the type albums/tracks of the search doesn't appear to be
remembered.
That should be fixed in tomorrow's build.
It might be desirable to use the text/small/large artwork setting when
returning albums.
Yeah, I knew this would come up. I'll have to see how hard this is to
fix.
Michael
Thanks again for all the hard work. At risk of being annoying, can I
just ask whether there is any chance that we might ever be able to
search by more than one of the categories of artist, composer, conductor
...
Also I'm a bit confused as to how band works. I can't seem to find any
way
Philip Meyer wrote:
You certainly can enter TPE2 as band in Mp3Tag and Foobar. There is an
option in Mp3tag to map the field accordingly. I'll check when I get
home.
Band works in FLAC tags too.
LMS can read TPE2 and interpret it as either Band/Orchestra or Album
Artist depending on
You certainly can enter TPE2 as band in Mp3Tag and Foobar. There is an
option in Mp3tag to map the field accordingly. I'll check when I get
home.
Band works in FLAC tags too.
LMS can read TPE2 and interpret it as either Band/Orchestra or Album
Artist depending on a setting. Foobar and Mp3Tag
In the past, Mp3Tag treated TPE2 as Band. Newer versions call TPE2
ALBUMARTIST, which was a weird thing to do when FLAC stores BAND tags. So with
the latest Mp3Tag release, it is possible to remap BAND as follows:
In Mp3Tag Options Tags Mapping, enter the following:
Tag / Source / Target
Philip Meyer wrote:
In the past, Mp3Tag treated TPE2 as Band. Newer versions call TPE2
ALBUMARTIST, which was a weird thing to do when FLAC stores BAND tags.
So with the latest Mp3Tag release, it is possible to remap BAND as
follows:
In Mp3Tag Options Tags Mapping, enter the
Wow. That is incredibly helpful. Thanks so much, Phil.
You're welcome.
For Foobar 2000 (one of the best/versatile media players), you should ensure
the following is configured:
File Preferences
Advanced
Tagging MP3 ID3v2 revision and quirks
Ensure Map TPE2 to Album Artist is unticked.
Then
mherger wrote:
Please update. It's rough, but it's there.
Thanks- this seems to work pretty well. I agree that it would be handy
if the album/ song choice stuck.
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JJZolx wrote:
Sample rate and bit depth would be a means of finding hi-res material.
exactly! would be nice to sort the red book and HD files in separate
playlists
Stereo - SPK: Triangle Magellan Quatuor - PRE: XSP-1 Gen2 - AMPS: 4 x
XPA-1 Gen2 - SOURCE: Logitech Transporter
HC - SPK:
Looks pretty good.
I notice that the type albums/tracks of the search doesn't appear to be
remembered.
It might be desirable to use the text/small/large artwork setting when
returning albums.
It would be a little smarter looking if the Genre field matched itself
against the items in the
There seem to me to be slightly different use cases depending on whether
you are just wanting to run the search or whether you want to save the
results as a sort of tracklist or submenu. Either way though I guess
some people (especially classical music collectors) will often be
wanting to get at
Yeah, I'm not certain whether you'd want filtering when searching for
albums.
For my needs, I think not. Lets say I have an album that is found by
genre and year range, with a couple of tracks on the album labeled with
a different genre. If I find that album in a list of results using the
At the moment one seems to get an answer in terms of tracks even if one
searches by album in advanced search, which seems a bit perverse-
although I guess it might suit some uses.
There isn't a search by album in advanced search. There is only search for
songs, with one option to find songs
In that scenario, I would think you'd typically use track search, not
album search.
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That's not modified this year, but modified in 2014. But you've been
I get your point about relative timestamps (today - 7) :-). Still, that
should work anyway.
Well, I planned to update the query each year, so at the moment, it is
modified this year :-)
Oh... but it won't: the library is
In that scenario, I would think you'd typically use track search, not
album search.
I suppose so, if there would be an option to show matching songs or show
container albums, then everyone happy.
I'm not sure why you would want to see heirarchy of album Songs, if you are
looking for albums,
Philip Meyer wrote:
In that scenario, I would think you'd typically use track search, not
album search.
I suppose so, if there would be an option to show matching songs or
show container albums, then everyone happy.
I'm not sure why you would want to see heirarchy of album Songs, if
Please update. It's rough, but it's there.
Am 27.09.2014 um 02:58 schrieb Phil Meyer s...@hergest.demon.co.uk:
At the moment one seems to get an answer in terms of tracks even if one
searches by album in advanced search, which seems a bit perverse-
although I guess it might suit some uses.
If you press the Clear button, it doesn't clear the Saved Search
drop-down selection.
Thanks. Will fix.
When entering a date search, eg Date Modified, it is suggesting American
date format (ex: mm/dd/). Could it be locale sensitive? It would
be more natural for me to enter dd/mm/.
When a search is saved as a custom library, and then the music
library is rescanned to pick up new music, would you expect
the custom library to be refreshed to show new matching music?
Yes. If this doesn't work for you, then please send me the
advancedSearch.prefs file. I'm not hand-coding
Michael do you think there's a chance that advanced search could be
given a bit of a spring clean.
Did you try the latest builds? I've done more than a spring clean
yesterday ;-).
For example rather than bitrate (limited
to 320 kbps) , I would have thought that most people would be more
mherger wrote:
Quite frankly I wouldn't need neither bitrate nor sample rate or bit
depth...
Sample rate and bit depth would be a means of finding hi-res material.
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mherger wrote:
- I don't see how/where you can save a search.
Once you've run a search you would get a Save As input field at the
bottom of the form.
And how do you get to that form with the 'Save As'? Is it supposed to
reappear above the search results? From what I can see, you have to
Will see what I can do there. The problem is that for non-EN speakers
this might become not so obvious. Und please don't ask me to localize
this as well :-P
Well perhaps just accepting -7 as an input would do?
Now I have created a silly library view, how do I remove it?
Go to the Switch
Have you given any thought to being able to pull up albums with the
Advanced Search? Or possibly artists? For albums, you could simply find
albums containing at least one track satisfying the search.
Albums, in particular, could be very handy. With the only question being
whether users would
The fact that results can't be paged is indeed a bit limiting... But I
thought that the play all item would actually play all matches.
More than just a bit. Maybe it works a library view, but I don't use
those.
For whatever reason paging was disabled for Advanced Search
specifically. I
If that can be addressed, it would be nicer to be able to list the
saved
searches in the Search menu instead of only in a drop-down in
Advanced
Search.
I think it's fine to have the UI in the web only.
Yes, no question about this. I couldn't imagine trying to do it in any
other UI.
But
Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing: I didn't mean being
able to run the saved searches as searches, but to be able to
play/enqueue them as though they were playlists. They could appear under
the Search menu, under Playlists, or under Favorites. Whatever makes
sense.
The thing about
And how do you get to that form with the 'Save As'? Is it supposed to
reappear above the search results? From what I can see, you have to go
back to it via the breadcrumbs before you see the form-above-results and
the Save fields.
Yes, that's what I experience. It isn't very intuitive. I assume
Philip Meyer wrote:
The thing about saving as a playlist or favourite, is that it is flat in
structure; a heirarchy of search results is good, eg. ArtistAlbum, but
not going to be what everyone expects. The flat set of results we get
now is good if you are just looking for some specific
When a search is saved as a custom library, and then the music
library is rescanned to pick up new music, would you expect
the custom library to be refreshed to show new matching music?
Yes. If this doesn't work for you, then please send me the
advancedSearch.prefs file. I'm not hand-coding
If you incorporated the ability to search for either albums or tracks,
then by searching for albums you'd have a two-level hierarchy. This
could be very helpful. For instance, a search for all 80s Metal albums,
then the user could run the search and pick one from the results.
I assume you still
mherger wrote:
That sounds indeed like a good idea. I'm an album listener.
Overall I think that Advanced Search opens a few opportunities way
beyond what it was supposed to do in the past. I think it's fine to have
the UI in the web only. But the saved searches should indeed be
me.coverid FROM tracks me WHERE ( timestamp 1388534400 ) GROUP BY
me.id ORDER
That's not modified this year, but modified in 2014. But you've been
I get your point about relative timestamps (today - 7) :-). Still, that
should work anyway.
Oh... but it won't: the library is
Rethinking it a bit, ideally the saved searches would be available
*both* as searches and as playable lists.
Hehe... choice is always good! Except for the developer :-P.
If you incorporated the ability to search for either albums or tracks,
then by searching for albums you'd have a two-level
If you incorporated the ability to search for either albums or tracks,
then by searching for albums you'd have a two-level hierarchy. This
could be very helpful. For instance, a search for all 80s Metal albums,
then the user could run the search and pick one from the results.
I assume you still
mherger wrote:
If you incorporated the ability to search for either albums or
tracks,
then by searching for albums you'd have a two-level hierarchy. This
could be very helpful. For instance, a search for all 80s Metal
albums,
then the user could run the search and pick one from the
Philip Meyer wrote:
If you incorporated the ability to search for either albums or tracks,
then by searching for albums you'd have a two-level hierarchy. This
could be very helpful. For instance, a search for all 80s Metal
albums,
then the user could run the search and pick one from the
Would it be possible to add something to search to help organize the
results? I've had to do about 400 searches in the past day or so as I
look for whether I have specific songs used for an event. I needed
Fever by Sarah Vaughan. Searching for fever alone brings back a
ridiculous number of
Would it be possible to add something to search to help organize the
results?
Difficult to impossible without a considerable amount of work and lots
of new code. I've always hoped to see a grid view at some point, which
would allow to sort tracks by whatever column you want. But that would
You might add an 'Advanced Search' item under My Music Search, if
that's possible under onebrowser.
I tried this... but as you guessed, the browse menu handler made this
impossible. Or at least I didn't find a way to do it in a reasonable
amount of time. It's now a link next to the Search
Ok, I did some work on the Advanced Search. Please update to the latest
builds and give this some good testing:
a. now that additional browse modes support composer and conductor at
least, could the advanced search functionality incorporate them as a
query.
Yes. You can now define what roles
Played with it a little, and here a couple of quick observations:
- I'm only seeing a single page of results, ordered alphabetically, with
no pagebar or 'more' links. There's an 'All Songs' link, but it's not
linked to anything. The play/enqueue buttons for 'All Songs' works, but
only plays the
I guess I was somewhat unfamiliar with Advanced Search. I took a look at
Advanced Search in 7.8 and 7.7, which answered a couple of my
questions.
(BTW, it's unbelievably slow in earlier versions of LMS when the result
set is large. I see the server's CPU being pegged and eventually it
times out
- I don't see how/where you can save a search.
Once you've run a search you would get a Save As input field at the
bottom of the form.
- How does the genre text search work? Is it a simple LIKE '%text%'
or can you do anything more complicated?
No, just names, or part of names. rock, pop
Michael do you think there's a chance that advanced search could be
given a bit of a spring clean. For example rather than bitrate (limited
to 320 kbps) , I would have thought that most people would be more
interested in sample rate and/or bit depth. This combined with conductor
and composer
mherger wrote:
Ok, I did some work on the Advanced Search. Please update to the latest
builds and give this some good testing:
Could offer buttons on the search/advanced search pages to Save as
Favourite or Save as custom library.
You can now save searchs to be re-run, as well as as
When a search is saved as a custom library, and then the music library is
rescanned to pick up new music, would you expect the custom library to be
refreshed to show new matching music?
I'm not seeing that at the moment. i.e. the search was for music modified this
year, and a specific artist.
a. now that additional browse modes support composer and conductor at
least, could the advanced search functionality incorporate them as a
query.
b. is there a way of getting advanced search to appear as a top level
menu option and to have it readily accessible in Ipeng?
For quite some time I
mherger wrote:
a. now that additional browse modes support composer and conductor at
least, could the advanced search functionality incorporate them as a
query.
b. is there a way of getting advanced search to appear as a top
level
menu option and to have it readily accessible in
mherger wrote:
I would agree that the current way to get to the advanced search is more
than cumbersome...
Only if you don't know where it is, or you're unaware that it exists.
But if you do know, it's only two clicks from anywhere in the web UI.
You might add an 'Advanced Search' item under
I have a couple of suggestions which might enhance search functionality
out of the box (ie without having to construct custom search)
a. now that additional browse modes support composer and conductor at
least, could the advanced search functionality incorporate them as a
query.
b. is there a
Personally, I wouldn't want any type of 'fuzzy' searching or extended
searching within the basic search. If want to find anything by name,
then I'll take one of two approaches:
* Enter just enough of the name to be certain that the search will
return a short list that is easily scanned for the
I would think the fuzzy search would only be a specific advanced
search option to avoid taking a performance hit on regular searching. I
would only use it when I didn't get any hits on the specific search. How
much value it has may depend on how spelling challenged you are.
Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz
Mnyb wrote:
I would like fuzzy search mostly for misspeling and tracks and artists
in non native languages .
Current search already seems to deal well with artists with special
characters and is case insensitive. Is there a specific example of a
search of an artist with characters in the
get.amped wrote:
My personal favorite enhancement is to have a way to determine whether a
track (or artist or album, etc.) is included in a saved playlist.
Sounds like its a real unique wish...
get.amped wrote:
Right now, I have to open the list in another program (like Wordpad) and
use
DJanGo wrote:
Sounds like its a real unique wish...
There are thousand ways to rome...
Code:
$ sqlite3 /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/cache/library.db
sqlite select playlist from playlist_track where track like '%oloko%';
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61801
61801
get.amped wrote:
Overall there's fairly limited playlist functionality in LMS. Basically
you can save the Now playing list and... that's about it other than
selecting it to play it again. You can't reorder items in the saved list
In the web UI you can drag and drop items in the current
JJZolx wrote:
The only real difficulty I can see is if you wanted to listen to
something else while working on building or editing a playlist.
This is a significant part of the issue. When I'm building new
playlists, I often do so on my secondary system by adding songs into the
Now playing
get.amped wrote:
This is a significant part of the issue. When I'm building new
playlists, I often do so on my secondary system by adding songs into the
Now playing list. Probably not realistic for many (most?) LMS users to
have a complete second system to work on what they will be listening
JJZolx wrote:
A simple workaround just occurred to me: The current playlist is
per-player. If you can install a software player such as SqueezePlay on
a PC, then you can use it as a dummy player. Play what you like on one
or more players, and use the software player as a target for a
get.amped wrote:
That would be a relatively easy way to build a new playlist with a
single system and not interfere with what's playing now. Nice!
The local player plugin can be your friend if the LMS server can install
that plugin ,then it s basically a one click operation and a restart (
ok
I would like fuzzy search mostly for misspeling and tracks and artists
in non native languages .
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