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Plugins / Re: Modern Search Bar - Unified search bar with fuzzy matching

« on: March 14, 2025, 10:49:57 AM »

For me, a filter (Capital A instead of a?) would work. And/Or a plugin setting for our preference. I'd almost always prefer album artist, but both Artist and Album artist being in the dropdown would be great!
Oh, and the issue is that searching for Artist shows incomplete albums when the song artist is, for instance: 'artist a ft. artist b'.

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Plugins / Re: Modern Search Bar - Unified search bar with fuzzy matching

« on: March 11, 2025, 04:02:54 PM »

Hah, I just came here to ask for the very same thing @enrivac!
Still really loving this plugin, so nice to use.
Would adding album artwork (and enlarging the thumbnail) be possible, as well?

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Plugins / Re: Modern Search Bar - Unified search bar with fuzzy matching

« on: February 25, 2025, 08:23:14 AM »

@fiso64 absolutely okay with the current state if it's not possible, I just wanted it so I could limit my search to either Library or Inbox (which I use for music that hasn't had its tags/images etc checked)
Wonderful plugin either way, thanks!

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Plugins / Re: Modern Search Bar - Unified search bar with fuzzy matching

« on: February 21, 2025, 03:22:12 PM »

Fantastic work! This reminds me of stuff like Launchy, just very nice to use. I see prefixes for artists etc, but can we switch between 'Entire Library' and 'Local Node only' as we can in the built-in search bar?

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Questions / Re: Help setting up library/sorting/grouping

« on: February 11, 2025, 08:58:22 AM »

@tjinc: In the cases of Collaborations and Splits, where the Album Artist ends up being 'Artist X & Artist Y', but the 'Artist' field can still list each artist separately:
any way to set up custom grouping/sorting so these also show up on the individual page for each artist? As stated, I currently use 'Album Artist' so compilations etc get accurately grouped together as an album, but I can't help but think there's some virtual tag trickery to get closer.

edit: Wait, I missed what you said about Splits... I didn't realise I could enter multiple values there! That might actually just do it. Thanks a lot!

Edit 2:... I can't believe it was that simple. Given the lack of a '...' at the end of Album Artist I just assumed this couldn't store multiple values. This is perfect, thanks!

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Questions / Re: Help setting up library/sorting/grouping

« on: February 10, 2025, 10:06:31 AM »

No, that I've got covered. The most important bit is this:
"One area that gives me trouble is splits (eg. a Split EP between two bands), collaborations, and various 'Various Artists' situations (compilations, soundtracks, etc.)". I wonder how other people deal with this?
I use 'Album Artist' to make sure compilations behave, but Split EP's and collaborations elude me.


Here's what my layout looks like:

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Questions / Help setting up library/sorting/grouping

« on: February 06, 2025, 09:25:01 AM »

Hey everyone,

Apologies if this is explained somewhere, but I'm having troubling seeing the forest for the trees and hope someone can help me make sense of things:

I currently have my layout organised with
-a Library Explorer set to Album Artists on the left
-Main Panel on Album Covers, set to group by 'Grouping', ( to divide into Album, EP, Single etc.), and sorting to 'Album Artist/Grouping/Year/Album'.

I also use a Virtual Tag to name and divide discs/movements/bonus tracks, which works really nicely.

One area that gives me trouble is splits (eg. a Split EP between two bands), collaborations, and various 'Various Artists' situations (compilations, soundtracks, etc.)

When clicking on an artist in my Library Explorer, I'd like it to show all albums that artist is involved with, including those where it's not the only/main artist. It does this for Compilations (partially, it only shows the songs of said artist, which I can live with), but as only 'Artist' can have multiple entries, and I'm sorting by Album Artist, those 'Various Artists' albums pose a problem, as do collaborations (where the Album Artist will be something like 'Band X & Artist Y).
I'm struggling to find a way to deal with these situations, and was hoping someone could help me figure things out!

Thanks in advance