Some suggestions to greatly improve the search usability and to reduce the time needed for the user to find certain songs
Highlight search words throughout the results list
Group and Sort the search result list (show most relevant hits first)
Group by Title matches a. Sort alphabetically but then move to the top of the list: I. Title matches at the beginning (Ignore prefix words like "The" for the sorting) II. followed by full phrase matches III. followed by the rest of the Title matches later in the title string
Group by Author matches a. Sort alphabetically
Group by Lyrics matches a. Sort by song title alphabetically but then move to the top of the list: I. full phrase matches II. matches in the same lyrics line III. rests of the lyrics matches
Make the groups collapsable
In the search edit box show the number of search hits grayed out in braces while typing
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Leon Raj
said
almost 5 years ago
Also, can wild cards be used? E.g. "%" or "*" much like searching file names.
Max Moldmann
Some suggestions to greatly improve the search usability and to reduce the time needed for the user to find certain songs
Highlight search words throughout the results list
Group and Sort the search result list (show most relevant hits first)
a. Sort alphabetically but then move to the top of the list:
I. Title matches at the beginning (Ignore prefix words like "The" for the sorting)
II. followed by full phrase matches
III. followed by the rest of the Title matches later in the title string
a. Sort alphabetically
a. Sort by song title alphabetically but then move to the top of the list:
I. full phrase matches
II. matches in the same lyrics line
III. rests of the lyrics matches
1 person likes this idea