embyuser24 43 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 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. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Hi yes, it's something we're interested in for the future. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legallink 187 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 +1 on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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adrianwi 237 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 +100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
embyuser24 43 Posted January 28, 2019 Author Share Posted January 28, 2019 The new search improvements in v4.0 are great and very welcomed! Are there any plans for implementing nearest match searches in cases of misspelled words/phrases? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 It's possible for the future. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottles51 63 Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Can we please have the apostrophe excluded in the web browser searches. It is easy to forget adding one in especially when pasting in a title. You may have the title and forget to add the apostrophe and not realize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 HI, yes this is something that needs to be improved. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägs 72 Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 I'd just like to expand the scope on this a bit since the original request was video specific, but with improvements made to the music side of the shop, it'd be great to include artist and title (or album) in the search as well, as I outline here: 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Taking another look at this, this feature request was created prior to Emby Server switching to full text searching in it's database, and as a result, many of the examples in the first post have been solved for the past several years. Even the diacritical marks have long been solved where Amélie can be located by searching either Amélie or Amelie. The open issues are currently misspellings (fuzzy), and certain characters such as single quotes and periods that require the person searching to enter their search term exactly as it appears in the database. In the upcoming 4.8 server release, we'll handle these characters better so that it won't matter how you're searching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägs 72 Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Just so I'm clear: the improvements to search do not include the ability to search artist/composer + title (e.g., "Miles Davis Autumn Leaves"), correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 3 hours ago, Jägs said: Just so I'm clear: the improvements to search do not include the ability to search artist/composer + title (e.g., "Miles Davis Autumn Leaves"), correct? Correct, however there are some other nice improvements you may enjoy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkorleone 0 Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 I'm running 4.8.0.46, thanks for the improvements! Don't want to keep this open forever, but I'm adding my use case. For a video with the name, say "Vacation.Video.2023-07-13.Rome.1" if I search for "Rome," then I don't get back the item. I can technically go and bulk edit metadata, but I have hundreds of these files and lots are with a similar naming convention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 4 minutes ago, donkorleone said: I'm running 4.8.0.46, thanks for the improvements! Don't want to keep this open forever, but I'm adding my use case. For a video with the name, say "Vacation.Video.2023-07-13.Rome.1" if I search for "Rome," then I don't get back the item. I can technically go and bulk edit metadata, but I have hundreds of these files and lots are with a similar naming convention. What is the title of the item in the server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryancey 23 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Any news on this feature? Looks like I hasn't made it to the 4.8 release and yet seems pretty expectable nowadays on a library manager. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37009 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 9 hours ago, ryancey said: Any news on this feature? Looks like I hasn't made it to the 4.8 release and yet seems pretty expectable nowadays on a library manager. Thanks! Hi, yes we are continuing to work on improving search. Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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