better search function and more options showing mp3tag info

[spexer]

[Guest]

is there any work in progress regarding the improvement of the search function?
No one else that feels this is a much wanted improvment?

[spexer]

Would still like to see a improved search function.
To be able to search by artist, by album, by title or by combinations artist + title or even better parts of artist+parts of title.

Also there are others who wants this -->
http://forum.silverjuke.net/viewtopic.php?t=3180

[SilverEagle]

Hi spexer,

Do you want to search from script or from the normal GUI? I presumed the GUI, but seeing you also informed after player.getTitleAtPos() a year ago: from script what you ask is possible. Only the input field is hard to code, see my epos in the thread you quote.

By the way: if you are still looking for "Also I would like to see more functions like player.getTitleAtPos, I would like to get the year, genre info and so on..." I could post a script function doing that.

SilverEagle

[spexer]

[SilverEagle]

[spexer]

ok!
All of this sounds very good...
Also thanks for taking the time to explain a few things, thats nice!

[SilverEagle]

Hi All,

As promised a script which gives more info about any url than just available from the player.getXxxAtPos() family of functions.

Included is a demofunction which from the tools menu gives some info about the currently playing track, and I also included two helper functions to convert the internal database data & time formats to human readable formats.

Enjoy,
SilverEagle

[Guest]

Thankx - Rob

[Munger]

After watching a number of semi-inebriated, semi-literate partygoers trying to find songs on the jukebox, it occurred to me that a very simple change would make the current search function much more useable. Put simply, ignore all diacriticals, all punctuation, all white space and finally all vowels when matching against the database. for example:-

Now! That's What I Music 77 becomes nwthtswhtcllmsc77
Beyoncé becomes bync

You get the idea. You would be surprised how well this works (I use the approach on my music website). It doesn't really matter if you get a few false positives, as the object is to give the user a much smaller selection of songs to browse, rather than to return a completely accurate result set.