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[Twit]

Steve,

Forgive me if I can already do this but have not figured it out yet.
There is a post about jriver integration which made me think about this.

Nearly every time I have a party we end up searching the music database for specific songs people want to hear (I have 14000). I always end up using jriver to find a specific song because XL has set search parameters. Some one says 'Remember that song sung by those guys - something about a doctor". If i search in xlobby on doctor i get nothing because the answer is "Spin Doctors".

Baically what I would like is:

1 - Search on any part of a name/song not just the beginning.
2 - Search entire database at once. People often get the artist name and song name mixed up.
3 - Ability to do boolean searches. ie "*Doctors".

Thanks
Simon.

[vicom]

Twit, I'm dying for this feature... see also
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4012

[Twit]

I can't believe we are the only ones who want this!
By typing this i can also get it bumped!

[a06lp]

i'll vote for this too.

[edit] - let me clarify:
take a look at Winamp's Jump to File plugin - that's great searching!

[badubo]

+1

[C-moi]

+1

[ingalls]

+1

[stevenhanna6]

bump, when hell is this gonna get fixed!

just bumping so I dont forget, this will be next on my list after fixing a resource bug.

[a06lp]

bump, when hell is this gonna get fixed!

just bumping so I dont forget, this will be next on my list after fixing a resource bug.

LOL
awesome!

[hjackson]

Good feature request!

hjackson

[ingalls]

Yes, thanks a lot Steven!

[stevenhanna6]

ok guys here is what i did, should be good...see ya

http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2screentest.zip


just kidding, I didnt add the "*" request because I think what I did should cover that one. If you do a search for "doctor" now it will check for everything that starts with "doctor" then it will look for anything that contains the word...I think that will be enough but I can add "*" if we think its needed....but again I dont think its needed.

Search entire database at once. People often get the artist name and song name mixed up

yah good idea, I never thought of that....ok I have added the ability to filter on multiple filters if that makes sense...think of it as combining the results into one. So "xlobby->set filter" can not only have "artist" as a filter but now it can have "artist,trackname" as a multifilter.....again this applies for anything....make the multi filter as long as you want just seperate what your filtering on by a comma....ie artist,album,trackname

try that out and tell me if that helps out enough.

[jowaldo]

ok guys here is what i did, should be good...see ya

http://www.xlobby.com/xlobby2screentest.zip


just kidding, I didnt add the "*" request because I think what I did should cover that one. If you do a search for "doctor" now it will check for everything that starts with "doctor" then it will look for anything that contains the word...I think that will be enough but I can add "*" if we think its needed....but again I dont think its needed.

Search entire database at once. People often get the artist name and song name mixed up

yah good idea, I never thought of that....ok I have added the ability to filter on multiple filters if that makes sense...think of it as combining the results into one. So "xlobby->set filter" can not only have "artist" as a filter but now it can have "artist,trackname" as a multifilter.....again this applies for anything....make the multi filter as long as you want just seperate what your filtering on by a comma....ie artist,album,trackname

try that out and tell me if that helps out enough.

wow this should really come in handy!

[vicom]

Yahoo!!! I'll give it a bash when I get back home tonight

[Twit]

Fantastic - will try it out this weekend.

U Da Man!