kurtgschumacher 19 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 When I do a search the results are presented in an apparently random order. I just did a search for the movie "Pi" and got every movie that started with "pi"... eight rows of seven titles, and the movie I wanted was at the end of the sixth row. I would like to be able to select the display to sort by title, as I can on a library display. Sorting by year might be convenient too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbarylski 590 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Good idea. I'd also like to see my previous searches when starting a search. Just something to help get to things quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 6333 Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 I just select the category from the search results, as Top results is still limited as you getting a set from each content type with a limit of 50. So in my test of searching "pi", Top Results shows 22 movies for the 50 results, but the Movies category shows 48 movies. So from a blanket Top Results (global) only year would be an advantage. Now search by specific library or type is a different story. But we are still limited to 50 items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtgschumacher 19 Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 @Happy2PlaySelecting only "Movies" moved "Pi" up from the sixth row to the fifth row. That still doesn't address the issue. If I search for "Pi", having the results sorted alphabetically would put "Pi" first in the list. That seems like an advantage to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Sorting search results is tricky because they are already sorted by search relevance. We could allow you to specify a secondary sorting criteria so that it's sorted by search relevance, then by XXX...but that wouldn't have a significant impact on the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtgschumacher 19 Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 How is "search relevance" determined? Because it seems to be pretty random to me. Would it be possible to do what Google and some other search engines do, and allow a quoted string to request an exact match? So searching for Pi would mean "give me everything that begins with Pi" and searching for "PI" would mean "give me only movies with the title PI". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 12953 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 27 minutes ago, kurtgschumacher said: Because it seems to be pretty random to me With a two-character search it will probably be hard to determine relevance because there will be so many matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 Quote Would it be possible to do what Google and some other search engines do, and allow a quoted string to request an exact match? Yes this is a good idea. Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtgschumacher 19 Posted August 6, 2021 Author Share Posted August 6, 2021 That would be awesome, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gismo33 2 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 (edited) On 8/6/2021 at 5:37 PM, Luke said: Yes this is a good idea. Thanks for the feedback. 1) quoted string search and wildcard (*) support would be great .. for e.g. searching for "The E*" would give only search results like "The Expenables", "The East", ... 2) Like the previous speaker sad, search results are sorted pretty randomly for me too... for e.g. If I am searching for (actor)names like John or Jessica, the top-results or even people-only-search returns mostly unknown actors first... (list the most known/best rated actors/movies first would be nice or even an alphabetically sorted search result would be better than the current random results - at least for me). Maybe you can put these search improvements to the feature list ? Thanks anyway. Edited October 22, 2021 by gismo33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Yes I think those make sense. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägs 28 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Quasi-related—with apologies for further deviating from the original request–but I just started using PhotoPrism, and one of the things I *love* about its search feature is that I can search for people, tags, etc., using the following format: person:john label:pets It would be great if Emby could implement a similar feature, such as: album:nevermind song:superstition artist:blondie film:independence day show:expanse And so on. I've created separate users for my music and videos because in part because the search results get unruly, and this would help refine the search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper 1266 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 12 hours ago, Jägs said: Quasi-related—with apologies for further deviating from the original request–but I just started using PhotoPrism, and one of the things I *love* about its search feature is that I can search for people, tags, etc., using the following format: person:john label:pets It would be great if Emby could implement a similar feature, such as: album:nevermind song:superstition artist:blondie film:independence day show:expanse And so on. I've created separate users for my music and videos because in part because the search results get unruly, and this would help refine the search. Aren't there already tabbed search results for separate categories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägs 28 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 4 hours ago, GrimReaper said: Aren't there already tabbed search results for separate categories? There are, but it'd make for a much quicker search if we could immediately filter by media type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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