Bugzilla – Bug 987
Live Search/Manual Search confusion
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:36:01 UTC
If I enter something to search for, eg. "Athlete", I get one and only one matching Artist as it performs a live search whilst I type. If I press return in the "Live Search" field or press the search button, this lists "athlete": 0. I assume this performs a song-search only, which is a bit confusing. If it is only meant to seach songs, perhaps change the button text to "search songs", and then change the search type drop-down list to "Search for Songs". Perhaps the type of search it should do should match the browse type drop-down selection (or have different search buttons on the form)? Eg, if "browse artists" is selected, then performing a live search would search for artists, rather than songs.
Philip - I just checked in subversion change 2393, which fixes this problem. It adds back the 3 type searching to the fallback search.
Even better would be to incorporate the live search directly into the drop- down option and "for..." fields. eg. select "Search albums", and then as typing in the "for" field, the results pane updates. This would only search albums (search artists and search songs working the same way). The type of search drop-down could also have a "search all", which would work as "search music" currently does.
Reopening as I think this is the same thing. Initiating a 'manual' search by pressing enter or clicking the search button returns only matching songs, whereas the livesearch matches songs, albums and artists. (default skin)
I agree the behavior with live search should be the same as clicking the button.
Fixed in subversion change 4299