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Hi, The current implementation of Emby search is very basic. Based on what I can tell, it only matches exact strings in the same exact order. Example: "Mission: Impossible" In this example the following queries will return a positive match Possible Impossible Mission Mission: Impossible And the following queries will not return anything at all (The worst offenders are highlighted) Mission Impossible Missoin: Imposible Imposible Impossible Mission Mission : Impossible Mission Impossible Another example would be "Mr. Robot" where if the dot is missing, nothing is returned or in general terms any variation of any string that is not an exact match will not return anything at all. Let's not even attempt to try a title like "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.". This makes the search difficult to use and at times even frustrating. As the examples above show, the major theme is special characters and punctuation and they can probably be bypassed by just ignoring them, which might or might not cause other problems in the process. This problem also affects titles that have letters with diacritical marks or glyphs such as "Amélie" and "Æon Flux", if you can't type them exactly, you can't find them. In my opinion a better attempt would be to use a difference string matching algorithm such as Levenshtein distance, you can then define an acceptable threshold and return the closest matches. I found a couple of C# projects that implement this and might be useful as a starting point. FuzzyWuzzy, a port of Python project in C#. https://github.com/BoomTownRoi/BoomTown.FuzzySharp FuzzyString. Has some additional string comparison algorithms too. https://github.com/kdjones/fuzzystring Thanks.
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It is recommended to improve the Chinese fuzzy search function
gejianya posted a topic in General/Windows
It is recommended to improve the Chinese fuzzy search function Now, when searching for an actor's name in Chinese, the system must match the first character to display search results. For example, if I want to search for Jackie Chan, I must input "成" for the system to show results for "成龙." If I only input "龙," the system will not display results for "成龙." This significantly affects the search experience; this is not a true fuzzy search. A true fuzzy search means that as long as I input "龙," the system will return all results containing "龙," including titles and actors, and also results where "龙" is not in the first position, such as "成龙," "龙年大吉," "三人成龙," etc. If this feature affects the system's operating speed, I believe that users would prefer the improvement of the feature over the system's speed. It's acceptable for search results to be a bit slower, but they must include all results; that is the correct approach. Users also tend to accept more complete and richer search results, so a slightly slower search speed is acceptable.（translate with OpenAI） 建议完善中文模糊搜索功能 现在中文搜索输入演员名字，系统搜索必须匹配第一个字，才会显示搜索结果，比如我要搜索成龙，那我就必须要输入成，系统才会出来成龙的结果，如果只输入龙的话，系统搜索就不会出现成龙结果。这是很影响搜索体验的，这不是真正意义上的模糊搜索，真正的模糊搜索是，只要我输入龙，系统会出来所有字段包含龙的结果，包括标题和演员，并且包含龙不在首位的结果，比如成龙，龙年大吉，三人成龙等。 如果这个功能影响系统运行速度的话，我认为在功能完善和系统运行速度之间，用户更愿意选择功能的完善，搜索结果出来慢点可以，但一定要包含所有结果，才是正确做法，用户也倾向于接受更完整更丰富的搜索结果，搜索速度慢一点可以接受。- 2 replies
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How about making it easier to search for something. Not a single long line of alphabet, not having to button down to start searching and making holding the arrow back and forth speed up after pressing for a second. Just make it easier for people on tvs using a remote. Thanks!
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Hi guys. First of all, thanks for the great work you are doing. Emby is a great media swerver and it's worth the money I spent for the premiere license. Now the issue. Performing a search while typing is a great feature wth nice user experience but it may be problematic when you have a huge database. I have more than 100,000 titles (plus actors, performers and all the other types of related entities) and the search is just too slow and very annoying as, for every letter you type in the search box, it starts to search my huge database. Is there any way to set the "type speed" or, better, simply disable the feature "search as you type" and let the server start the search only after you press 'ENTER'? It shouldn't too complex to implement. If not, would you consider to add it in one of the next releases? As you may understand, the search feature is very important on a database of ten thousands of titles... Thanks, Gerry
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I have two different servers, with Plex when you search for something it searches all the servers you have and brings back the results. With Emby it just searches the current sever you are in. I notice this feature was requested back in 2019, is there any update on this? Many thanks JC
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Most of the time one uses the search to just search for Movie Titles or a quick way to access a TV Series. But some search terms flood one with actors, trailers, or even episodes of a TV serial. Not that they are wrong and sometimes you want to see them, and i fact I want to keep actors, trailers and episodes; just not in the default search (but maybe having the option to search for that too) Best Regards
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Hi ! I use my own videos which have SRT sidecars. I want the search engine to take into account the text in these SRT files, is that something emby could do ? For instance if I type the word "sleep", it will show any video which has the occurrence "sleep" in its subtitle file, better yet, when I click on the video, it takes me to the exact location of this occurrence. Is that implemented or supported by any plugin ? Thanks in advance !
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I have a problem with emby. Does the search no longer work for the movie content or file name? For me, it only works with the name of the movie, and never with the file or written content. Look at this example: Thank you
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It's still not possible to search for tags in Emby? Is there a bug for this?
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I am painstakingly remapping most of the channels. Apparently, the EPG resources received from my provider didn't have enough information to work properly. Now that things are coming along well, there are two things that must be fixed with the Roku version of Emby. There is a serious bug where when I scroll down the guide, I can't immediately access the menu by pushing the left arrow on my remote. I'm forced to completely exit out of the app and go back in. This is unacceptable to have this bug exist for so long. Another problem I found that when I'm finished watching a channel, and I click back, the guide doesn't populate. I get a blank screen and navigate between menus, then come back to guide before they repopulate. Anybody who actually uses the Ruku version of this app should understand what I'm talking about. Second issue is, why on earth did you not able the ability for us to use voice search? I should not have to type out every single letter when searching for a show or movie!! That is also not only unacceptable, but it's also primitive!! I felt like I was typing on my old flip phone. Pleas work on that!! Please also observe the second screenshot below When we're remapping channels, PLEASE, PLEASE! Allow for predictive text!! Depending on the source EPG we use we are forced to manually search and read everything on the list, because they are not all always in order. It's bad enough we have to do this manually, at least make it easier for us. I don't understand things like these that can make a user's life so much easier are not enabled! I don't mean to complain, but this is ridiculous! It's a lot of work man!!!!
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Hi all, along the lines of this request : it would be nice to be able to clear the search string with one click (x Clear Search) Thanks all, Roodee
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The search function for movies does not display "sort titles". Is this intended? Also it does not display the results in the same order as they are listed in the "movies" library. I think it would be a good idea to display the sort titles too. Or maybe an option in "settings" to define which titles ("tItle", "original title" and "sort title") should be considered in the results. (Emby Server Linux 4.3.1.0) Cheers
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After we watching a movie, we frequently base our "next watch" upon what actors are in that movie and then doing a search by clicking on the actor icon. I did several searches and realized, after ordering several movies, that I already had them after finding DUPICATES pop up in the suggested movies afterwards. We also use the EMBY search feature for actors and we found that actors that I had many movies for (there's tons of them), but only had 12 according to EMBY in my libraries. Is 12 an (artificial) limitation? Imagine having friends over and doing a search on "Christmas" movie titles and coming back with only 12 movies! Does this make sense? No this is insane.. Is there a hidden option for changing the number of movies that I'm not aware of? Do I have to go and create separate libraries for my many favorite actors and Movie types for them all to display completely? @LukePlease help or enlighten me!!! Thanks! (Feel like - Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)! Don't blame me. I like the odies!!) Running the most current release of EMBY. Windows client. Windows 10 64-bit, lots of processing power memory and huge storage etc..
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So I've looked in the FR's for 'Search' tag and can't see this anywhere obvious. I was surprised that External ID's (IMDB, TMDB etc) are not included in the search results ? ie if I put 'tt0088763' in the search box, I was expecting to get 'Back to the Future' listed .. but I get back no results at all. The local metadata clearly has the ID's listed and available - so can we please include this in a global search ? Thanks.
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Love the new format of search results with discreet groups to albums, movies, artists. As a search result set Emby will return all tracks from all albums matching search terms. This means that if I search for "The Cappuccino Songs", Emby will return, as a result, all tracks from this album regardless their title does not match search terms. Of course the result set also includes the album. The tracks, however does not seem to be a correct part of a result set. So if I search for a actor/actress will Emby return all movies where he has been? Or else if I search for a tv series name, should Emby return the episodes as a result? This seems to be wrong. Is it a "concept"??
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I stumbled on some issue regarding the search in the GUI and on identifying items and would suggest some improvements. For example i would suggest as "II" and "2" or "IV" and "4" are synonymous in movie titles, the search and the process of identifying should consider that, the same applies for "&" and "and". Furthermore i would suggest using levenshtein distance to improve the search and match items which does not match exactly but are likely the one searched for by the user. On identifying items emby chooses the first result, which might not be the likeliest. For example: A film named Guardians (2017).mkv is automatically identified as "Guradians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" from 2017 even though "Guradians" from 2017 shows up on the identifying page. I think there should a string comparison, maybe also with levenshtein distance, and when there is a 100% match this one should definetly be choosen.
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Hi, It would be helpful if you add collections to search results. If you have a few hundred collections, it become a chore to find what you are looking for by sorting through them manually. The same argument could be made for Genres, specially with genre cleaner plugin and Emby's ability to handle custom genres. Optional: If polluting the results is an issue then perhaps a search syntax could be added that you can type in the search box to make the results more specific. example; collections: search-query (only returns the results from collection) genres: search-query (only returns the results from genres) custom-media-library: search-query (only return the results from that specific library) Thanks,
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I'm not sure if it is possible for you to do something about this. Searching for example: Lois & Clark: The New Adventure of Superman (there are other shows as well with the same issue) Lois & Clark, brings back search results as expected, but if I search for Lois and Clark, it does not bring back the series as a search result. Is it possible to recognize 'and' and '&' as the same thing?
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Searching/Filtering movies by (original?) spoken language of film
bric posted a topic in Feature Requests
As discussed in this post, I'm hoping there is some way of searching or filtering movies by (original?) spoken language of film so that (for example) I could see all the Spanish language films I have. Or all the French Language. Or...etc. Kodi implements this in their "smart playlist" feature and the language seems to pull from the metadata stored within the file itself. I say this because if I had encoded something as an avi or mp4 then it did not show up in the playlist. I would have to repackage as an mkv (and make sure to specify the language of the track) in order to have it show up. So a 'smart playlist' feature might be a place to implement this. Adding a '...' at the side of the nav bar for additional options like this one would be another possibility. themoviedb.org has a data field called "original language" which could be useful for such a feature, but of course, a dubbed version might have a different language than the "original language". The metadata (.nfo) files emby generates seem to read the actual language track (at least for mkv format... which I've been using exclusively lately). Those are my main thoughts. Thanks for the help. -
server v4.5.0.6 plugin v1.5.6.0 - search to add new series/movie is not working there is not even a ("failed") entry in the log file - movie "detection" is also "broken" they get recognized as series - the list of files to organize does not get refreshed after an organize action, as it used to you have to refresh the whole page to see new items
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Hi, I'm currently using the http://swagger.emby.media/?staticview=true#/ItemsService/getUsersByUseridItems with parameters 'IncludeItemTypes=episode' and searchTerm to find episodes by name but I was wondering if it was possible to include the name of the TV show somehow in the request to narrow down the search. I'm asking because there are cases (like most first episodes that are called "Pilot") where being able to also include the TV show would help a lot. Thanks.
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Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to execute a search for a specific string that looked for a strict exact match. With that I mean search for the exact length of the string, not content that contains the query passed. For instance, if I search for "The avengers" I would like to know if it's possible to get results for exactly "The Avengers" without getting also as a result "The Avengers: Age of Ultron". Thanks.
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Is there a more up to date list of Hotkeys than the following post? https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/2142-emby-theater/page-25&do=findComment&comment=72843 At the moment I'm wondering if there is a Hotkey for initiating a Search. If there are hotkeys for things like toggling/cycling Subtitles/CC or cycling Audio Channels (eg, different languages) I'd be interested in knowing those as well. I might think of a few more later that'd be useful, but at the moment those are what I'm most interested in. Overall though everything works great with my default remote settings, which is very nice.
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when using the search box with Chinese character, it only displays results for movies and TVs that start with the letters you are typing from left to right, but will not display words from the middle of title. Example video titles: 传奇办公室 土地公传奇 维京传奇 新白娘子传奇 镜花缘传奇 香帅传奇 Say I was searching the word: 传奇 but only 传奇办公室 will show in the searched results because the word is at the beginning of the title. Please fix the issue for searching with Chinese character, thank you!
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Show which library search results are in?
Noodlewasser posted a topic in Non-Emby General Discussion
Hi! I don't know if this can be configured somehow, but I would really like to have the option to display the title of a library for items in the search results. I have different libraries for different languages and formats (4K, 3D, etc.) and if I search for something I can get up to 10 duplicates which I then have to click and hope that I found the one in the right library. If there is no such option, do you thi Just adding the library title to a label below the title and year would solve this problem and improve the search feature by a lot. Do you think this is possible? Edit: I'm sorry I wanted to post this to the "Feature Requests" subforum but somehow messed up.- 3 replies
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