Limiting search to specific libraries

[Teredactle 37]

Hi, is there any work being done restricting searches to specific libraries? I find it very annoying to search while I'm browsing a library and results come back from ALL of emby. That is illogical for me.

Please add this option, either by making it global, or returning results then having the option to filter the results by library.

TY

[Neminem 1518]

Go to you library settings and toggle this setting.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

9 hours ago, Neminem said:

Go to you library settings and toggle this setting.

Thank you. I never have even noticed that setting and I have a few libraries that I want to exclude from searches but I never could figure out how. 
Was this a recent add that I missed or did my old eyes just drift past it when I thought I was looking for a way to exclude them?

[Teredactle 37]

Problem is that when I search if I'm in the library that I exclude, no results are returned from that library. To me that option to exclude from global search makes sense if you're at the home screen searching. It's illogical that when you are IN that library and you search, there are no results.

Can someone chime in with this logic, it doesn't seem correct. The expectation is that if you're in a library, you should be able to search it, regardless if you exclude it from a "global search".

What other type of search is there beside global search?

Thanks

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, Teredactle said:

Problem is that when I search if I'm in the library that I exclude, no results are returned from that library. To me that option to exclude from global search makes sense if you're at the home screen searching. It's illogical that when you are IN that library and you search, there are no results.

Can someone chime in with this logic, it doesn't seem correct. The expectation is that if you're in a library, you should be able to search it, regardless if you exclude it from a "global search".

hi, yes you are correct.

[Neminem 1518]

There is this FR about this, I thnik.

 

[Teredactle 37]

11 hours ago, Luke said:

hi, yes you are correct.

Are you talking about this?

Can someone chime in with this logic, it doesn't seem correct. The expectation is that if you're in a library, you should be able to search it, regardless if you exclude it from a "global search".

So then, it's a bug? If I exclude the library from global search, I go in the library (via browser) and do a search, and get 0 results from this library.

Just trying to understand how this works, maybe I just don't get it, and also some search features are not consistent across interfaces/client apps....

TY

[IAmHugh 63]

On 12/23/2025 at 11:24 PM, Teredactle said:

Hi, is there any work being done restricting searches to specific libraries? I find it very annoying to search while I'm browsing a library and results come back from ALL of emby. That is illogical for me.

Please add this option, either by making it global, or returning results then having the option to filter the results by library.

TY

Unfortunately even though this should have been addressed and fixed YEARS ago it has pretty much been ignored by the devs in lieu of features peeps really do not want. In my book each of the devs deserve a tiny lump of coal, used coal at that so they can't make use of it.

Edited December 25, 2025 by IAmHugh

[Neminem 1518]

51 minutes ago, Teredactle said:

So then, it's a bug? If I exclude the library from global search

No its not a bug.

You don't want that library searchable, no matter what, with that toggled.

Please see the post about FR.

[Luke 42077]

23 hours ago, Neminem said:

No its not a bug.

You don't want that library searchable, no matter what, with that toggled.

Please see the post about FR.

Yea but I think when you’re in that library doing a scoped search it should be able to work.

[Teredactle 37]

I'm confused now. If you exclude a particular library globally, there is no way to search it, not even if you are IN that library?

 

[Luke 42077]

On 1/1/2026 at 2:22 AM, Teredactle said:

I'm confused now. If you exclude a particular library globally, there is no way to search it, not even if you are IN that library?

 

HI, no, it shouldn't';t be that way. You are right.