Media Library Search

[DaN 49]

I feel some kind of limitation in web client search; when searching for a person; behavior is like:

-results will retrieve a person or a music artist with a similar name, or any media content (music, movie, TV, etc) that includes that name in the content title. (example 

-when viewing a movie cast, and clicking on a person, results will be limited to movies and TV shows where that person is part of its cast.

 

I'd like to see the search results doing both at the same time; in a sense:

-when searching for a valid person name; or clicking on a name in cast area of any content; the results show:

all media contents that has that person in the cast, or music albums that matches that person as an artist

any content where that person name appears on its title

 

I've a valid example on that case; when searching for Michael Jackson (as a search string) in My Library; results will show:

Michael Jackson Artist

Michael Jackson Person

only 1 Album (because Michael Jackson Name is part of its title (Michael Jackson's This Is It)

A Documentary called Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon (BTW, Michael Jackson is not in the cast)

Michael Jackson Company Studio

Couple of other results matches the word Michael

 

 

Click on Michael Jackson Person will show video contents that was not shown in the search results, and Songs:

 

 

Clicking on Michael Jackson Artist Albums and Songs (and they're even with different count)

 

 

Regards,

DaN

[DaN 49]

Is it possible, when clicking on a person in cast area; to have the retrieved results showing all media types not limited to the collection type, either categorized or not? BTW, this is how the Android client works, so I guess it's possible for Web Client too.

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Edited March 23, 2014 by DaN

[DaN 49]

Any answer please?

[Luke 42078]

the artist and person records are coming from different places and there isn't really a reliable way of linking them to each other.

[DaN 49]

At least all contents that has cast, could show in search results;currently the results are limited to movies and TV shows ; if a collection of mixed type, it will not show.

 

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[DaN 49]

You\re absolutely right that person and artist data comes from two different sources; but it's the same source for movies, TV, music video, mix content, and adult content; my question is why the results is pre-categorized to movies, TV, and Music Videos only?

 

Regards,

DaN

[DaN 49]

I tested different folder types, the person results only shows under movies, TV, and music videos, no other folder types

 

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[Luke 42078]

it's all based on what you specified as the media folder type. if it's mixed it's more or less automatic. if your media folder type is movies, it will be under movies, and so on and so forth.

[DaN 49]

Since the different media folder types supports People in metadata; and as mentioned they're all sourced from ImagesByName\People; I see that the search or (person selection) should be improved in away:

• Either retrieve matches from all similar sources media folders (whatever the type is); categorized whatever the media folder is.
• or Add an attribute to the folder when defined in library whether to include it in search results.

Regards,

DaN

Edited March 25, 2014 by DaN