For what it's worth, I also preferred the old behavior. I generally sort my tracks by the album column, but only very rarely do I want to typeahead search by album. It would be great if it were possible to intuitively let people search whatever column they want, but as it is I find the new behaviour far less intuitive than simply searching titles.
I think I have a reasonable justification for this too. Generally if I'm to search for a title I will know specifically the song I want, so will use typeahead search in the entry view. But when searching a genre, artist or album I am probably not certain of the exact song I want. So searching in the browser or the search bar makes more sense as I will then be shown a list of matching tracks to choose from ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jonathan Matthew" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 6, 2010 09:28 Subject: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox 0.13.1 released To: "Edgar Luna" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Edgar Luna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Congratulations for another release. I got a comment here > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Jonathan Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> * Use the current sorting column for typeahead searching > > OMG. > > So If I sort as I always do by Year, because in this way I have: each song > by album in the right order (by track number), then each album for year it > was released. Then I'm basically screwed I lost typeahead searching. The summary isn't entirely accurate: we only use the sorting column if it contains a string value (album, artist, genre, title), otherwise we use the title column. > I understand that having the incapability of searching in album, artist or > genre sucked for many people at many times (you can use typeahead in the > browser for that btw). But, I believe that searching a song is the most > common way to using this feature and sorting all my library by Title just to > find one song, then I go set the sort to Year again *seems* silly. I'll try > to see what happens with that. Well, I don't really know how people use typeahead searching. I've rarely seen it mentioned, and there were only a few duplicates of the original bug report from 2006. I'm sure we can find a reasonable solution that works for everyone. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
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