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jonathan at snetram

Dec 30, 2009, 12:19 PM

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Improved search function with autocomplete/autosuggest (was Re: Ideas for MythMusic rewrite)

On 30-12-2009 13:53, Paul Harrison wrote:
> We'll probably regret this but we would like your opinions :-) We are
> in the process of switching MythMusic to MythUI and would like to take
> the opportunity to make some much needed improvements to the interface.

A would really like a better search funcionality, for instance:

Search through tracks, artists and the like by keying in the letter, but
not only the first. I would really love a kind of auto-complete, e.g.
when I cue in P I might get:

Pearl Jam
Pigeon Detectives
PJ Harvey

When I cue in E after that I only have Pearl Jam.

Although this preferably could be limited to starting from the front
this might also be useful looking through whole artist names, perhaps it
can also be used to search through videos, recordings and the like.

Kind regards,

Jonathan
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jonathan at snetram

Dec 30, 2009, 12:28 PM

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Re: Improved search function with autocomplete/autosuggest (was Re: Ideas for MythMusic rewrite) [In reply to]

On 30-12-2009 21:19, Jonathan Martens wrote:
> Search through tracks, artists and the like by keying in the letter, but
> not only the first. I would really love a kind of auto-complete, e.g.
> when I cue in P I might get:
>
> Pearl Jam
> Pigeon Detectives
> PJ Harvey
>
> When I cue in E after that I only have Pearl Jam.

While this first of all looks like a keyboard thing I would prefer if I
could navigate through the alphabet for the next letter with the up/down
(and perhaps PgUp/PgDn for bigger skips).

Kind regards,

Jonathan
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mythtv-dev2 at dwilga-linux1

Dec 31, 2009, 7:14 AM

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Re: Improved search function with autocomplete/autosuggest (was Re: Ideas for MythMusic rewrite) [In reply to]

On 30-12-2009 21:19, Jonathan Martens wrote:
>Search through tracks, artists and the like by keying in the letter, but
>not only the first. I would really love a kind of auto-complete, e.g.
>when I cue in P I might get:
>
>Pearl Jam
>Pigeon Detectives
>PJ Harvey
>
>When I cue in E after that I only have Pearl Jam.

I second this feature, though I'd actually find it more useful in
Watch Recordings. I waste a huge amount of time trying to find a
particular episode by subtitle from the 100 or so episodes of Curious
George I've amassed for my kid.

So I guess I'm requesting that, if you do write it, it be done in
such a way that it could be implemented in other areas of the code,
as well, and not tied to just Music.
--
Dan Wilga "Ook."
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chrisznews4 at rogers

Dec 31, 2009, 8:45 AM

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Re: Improved search function with autocomplete/autosuggest (was Re: Ideas for MythMusic rewrite) [In reply to]

Jonathan Martens wrote:
> Search through tracks, artists and the like by keying in the letter,
> but not only the first. I would really love a kind of auto-complete,
> e.g. when I cue in P I might get:
>
> Pearl Jam
> Pigeon Detectives
> PJ Harvey
>
> When I cue in E after that I only have Pearl Jam.
I believe the Search function already does that. It is not specific to
the beginning of the search string; it will match the string within any
of artist, album, or track. But yes, I would definitely like to see that
feature preserved and improved.

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robert.mcnamara at gmail

Dec 31, 2009, 8:50 AM

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Re: Improved search function with autocomplete/autosuggest (was Re: Ideas for MythMusic rewrite) [In reply to]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Christian Szpilfogel
<chrisznews4 [at] rogers> wrote:
> Jonathan Martens wrote:
>>
>> Search through tracks, artists and the like by keying in the letter, but
>> not only the first. I would really love a kind of auto-complete, e.g. when I
>> cue in P I might get:
>>
>> Pearl Jam
>> Pigeon Detectives
>> PJ Harvey
>>
>> When I cue in E after that I only have Pearl Jam.
>
> I believe the Search function already does that. It is not specific to the
> beginning of the search string; it will match the string within any of
> artist, album, or track. But yes, I would definitely like to see that
> feature preserved and improved.
>

MythUI already has an incremental search widget that is used in
various spots in the frontend, notably MythVideo and MythGame. The
developer can implement it as a mid-word search or a "from the
beginning only" search. There's no work that needs to be done on
this.

Robert
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herman at frontier

Jan 2, 2010, 2:13 AM

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Re: Improved search function with autocomplete/autosuggest (was Re: Ideas for MythMusic rewrite) [In reply to]

> Search through tracks, artists and the like by keying in the letter, but
> not only the first. I would really love a kind of auto-complete, e.g.
> when I cue in P I might get:
>
> Pearl Jam
> Pigeon Detectives
> PJ Harvey
>
> When I cue in E after that I only have Pearl Jam.

Exapnd it to what my Pre does: when typing "Ha", the PJ Harvey also
shows up (i.e. it looks at beginnings of words, not titles). This helps
when you're not sure if it is "firstname lastname", or the reverse, and
prefixes like "The" can be left as they are.

Herman

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