Can Scheme be specified for GoSearch?

[emmee]

I'd like to use GoSearch with an arbitrary scheme, just like JumpToLetter. For example to display all albums by an artist in an Artist/Album scheme. Problem is that GoSearch always results in a track based display.

Is this possible? If so, how?

TIA....

[Jlee]

You need to use the library view instead of search for that and you'll need to set up some view schemes that will support the search. Details in this thread (http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14264) for you.

[emmee]

OK, so it sounds like the answer to my question is no.

The question now is, can this functionality be added in the future?

Ben, any comments?

Seems to me like this would be very handy for a lot os users.

[Jlee]

Your request seems a bit vague. Certainly the example you give can be done now it's just that you wouldn't use the search function, you would use Lua to set the library root and show the results on a library panel. So, why develop the Search function to do something that is already possible with another perfectly good function? If you are trying to do more than your example suggests I think you need to give Ben more details of exactly what you are trying to achieve.

[emmee]

Sorry, I thought my original post was clear enough.

I'm looking for a generalized search using GAC to allow album art displays as opposed to the library tree display you've described in another thread. As I understand it, these are two distinctly different objects. I agree with you that the library tree has speed advantages and that's why I'd like to implement that method also.

The GoSearch request as it stands today seems to have a fixed scheme (if I understand it correctly, which may not be the case) that can not be changed. I'm just looking for a way to change the default scheme.

Another way to look at it involves the JumpToLetter GAC request. It searches to the first instance that starts witth a given letter in whatever scheme that's currently defined. For example you can skip to the first album, genre or whatever starts with a specified letter. I'd like to see similar behavior with GoSearch except instead of skipping to the first instance starting with a given letter it would return all instances that match the search criterion.

Hopefully my request is clear enough now....

[Ben S]

emmee - I understand what you're looking for, but it's not currently possible. A search searches the entire library, not just the current scheme or any scheme.

[emmee]

emmee - I understand what you're looking for, but it's not currently possible. A search searches the entire library, not just the current scheme or any scheme.

OK, Thanks!

Is this something that could be put on the list of new features for future release?

[Ben S]

Can you give me an example of something you're searching? It's possible for some players that you could combine searchs (to include Genre, let's say).

[emmee]

Can you give me an example of something you're searching? It's possible for some players that you could combine searchs (to include Genre, let's say).

Right now I'm just looking for basic stuff like all albums by an artist or all tracks by an artist. The search function is fine as it is now (except for the possible bug described here http://promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14418&highlight=&sid=3622a1a26643bea1ef28747e77f9814a).

All that's missing is being able to specify how the results are presented and used using GAC.

By "combining searches" I assume you're talking about smart viewschemes like those in JRMC, which I'm using. If so, I don't see how these help with with GoSearch since a scheme can't be specified. Am I missing something?

[Jlee]

With JRMC you can search using e.g.:

artist=madonna

or

ar=madonna

I do this on my search panel. I have buttons for All, Artist, Album and Track. You select one of these after entering the seach criteria and it searches the relevant field in JRMC.

[emmee]

With JRMC you can search using e.g.:

artist=madonna

or

ar=madonna

I do this on my search panel. I have buttons for All, Artist, Album and Track. You select one of these after entering the seach criteria and it searches the relevant field in JRMC.

Jlee,

Thanks for the tip!

I'm familiar with using search in JRMC but didn't know it could be initiated via NR. How do you command MC to do a search from NR? Once the search is done how you get the results into NR? I'd like to display the results using GAC so that I can have album art included in the results. Is this possible?

Sorry if these are stupid questions, but I'm still trying to figure all this stuff out.