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Louis

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GIZMO Search behaviour improvement suggestion
« on: April 12, 2014, 07:02:15 pm »

The search behavior in GIZMO is somewhat limited because the returned results can only be played, not browsed. For instance, if I search for ABBA the results returned will be the "artist" Abba and along with various Abba album titles but not Abba tracks unless the title of the track is included in the search term.

Selecting any of the items in the search results will display the "What would you like to do?" dialogue box, which essentially consists of different play options. What would be helpful is an additional option to browse the search results and to be able to drill down to track level in the same way the regular browse function works. That is, say, selecting one of the Album titles and then having the option to select a track from that album, rather than only being able to select and play the whole album.

That would make Search really helpful, especially in very large libraries, and where you may not be sure what track it is you want to play until you see the title. Of course the same thing could be achieved by not using Search and simply browsing by Artist name to the track list, but when you have over 6,000 Artists to page through such a search option described would make the process a whole lot easier and faster.
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bungalow bill

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Re: GIZMO Search behaviour improvement suggestion
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 12:40:41 pm »

Hi,
I've also been looking for this search function- can anybody tell me if it is possible to search in this way, or is there any plan to develop the function to facilitate this?
thanks
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GadgetBoy

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Re: GIZMO Search behaviour improvement suggestion
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2014, 09:30:22 am »

+1

Not sure why you cannot drill down into search results, only play them.

Weird limitation, unless we're missing something...
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2014, 09:43:18 pm »

+1
I've wanted to use search as a starting point for browsing too.
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