Search: allow to find exact matches, like title:="Nice"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mixxx |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
OS Linux Mint 20.3 Una (based on Focal Fossa) x64
Mixxx 2.4-alpha-
Try to locate a single word track title in library using the search function and will be disappointed.
I would like to find all versions of a song with the title Evil in my library. Not every track containing the word evil in its title but only those which their title is EVIL. I found out that it is almost impossible with the current implementation of search function of Mixxx.
I tried to write in search field the following:
ππ―π’π₯ returned thousands of titles containing the π¬ππ«π’π§π ..evil.. anywhere i.e Evil's or Devil or Neville or Sevilla, and the π°π¨π«π Evil like ..the Evil prince.. which is normal and expected.
"ππ―π’π₯" returned the same as above (even if I am not 100% sure since there isn't a counter to know how many results each search returned, (I will submit another (bug) wish for this) but also thousands of titles containing the π¬ππ«π’π§π ..evil.. anywhere (I suppose it isn't normal since I used quotes and mixxx should at least exclude words as Devil or Sevilla returning ..Evil eye.. or .. Evil woman .. or any title containing the π°π¨π«π Evil)
" ππ―π’π₯" (leading space), "ππ―π’π₯ " (trailing space), " ππ―π’π₯ " (leading and trailing spaces) much less results but again hundreds, if not thousands of tracks containing this string anywhere. I can't tell if there is a difference (no counter to say how many).
ππ’ππ₯π:ππ―π’π₯ and ππ’ππ₯π:"ππ―π’π₯" returned much less results since it looks only in title column but also everything containing the π¬ππ«π’π§π ..evil.. i.e Devil, evil woman, evil ways, Sevilla etc. etc. hundreds of tracks, no counter to say which one returned more.
ππ’ππ₯π:"ππ―π’π₯ and ππ’ππ₯π:ππ―π’π₯" returned nothing at all which was expected (probably invalid filter since quotes wasn't closed in both cases)
I couldn't find any combination to have only the tracks with the title "Evil" in the library view.π
So I was unable to find the tracks with the title "Evil". I figured out that I have 8 tracks with this single word title Evil after sorting the title by clicking on the title and then scroll down to letter E so they were all sorted together. But it is a workaround in my opinion.
So a revision of the search function should be done to address this situation.
Think that you like to find all covers of a song for a show or a podcast...
Thanks in advance
summary: |
- search fails to find single word track title + Search: allow to find exact matches, like title:="Nice" |
Changed in mixxx: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
What about
title:evil
and sort by title (clicking the column header). Doesn't "Evil" show up at the top/bottom?