rhythmbox cannot search by filename

[Elia Vecellio]

Ubuntu 8.04 Final Release. Rhythmbox 0.11.5 (ie default version)

Sometimes a music file (MP3, OGG, etc) will have incorrect or missing song information (ie artist, album, track). At the moment Rhythmbox will only search on the song information, so it often cannot find a track even though the filename of that song will contain the searched keyword.

Rhythmbox should also search the filename for keywords. Additionally, it should be possible to customize the column headings in the Library. For instance, so that, if we want, we can see the Filename, File Format (MP3, OGG etc) etc. Then it would be possible to sort and search on these extra information.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for reporting this. However, it's more a feature request. I'll report it upstream in the GNOME Bugtracker, where Rhythmbox is managed.

[Marctro (usrox)]

This "filename"-column missing in the library is really annoying. SInce I have sorted my complete collection cleanly by name only. Many of my .wma/.ogg/.mp3 files have no tags and then the display of the media library in rhythmbox looks inconsistent.

Exaile has an option to show a filename-only. Since Rhythmbox is however the better player and delivered default in ubuntu I hope it will be added eventually. It is now 2 years later (ubuntu 10.04) and still no filename column.

It is ridiculous that instead of a simple filename column one has a "file location" column which displays the whole path... this *really* looks ugly and obsolete.