This revision is a large update to add support for keyword searches as
suggested by Rutt on the Slim Devices forums.
Keyword searching is useful for find items when you're not sure whether the
text being searched for appears within the artist, album or song name, or when
you want to perform an 'AND' search that includes the artist name, album name
and the song title (normally you can't specify your search on more than one).
As an example, classical music tagging is often inconsistent in that the
composer may be used as the artist, within the album name or as part of the
song title which makes searching for all things by Mozart, for example,
difficult. However, a keyword search of "mozart" will find anything by the
artists "Mozart" or "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", as well as the album "Complete
Mozart Edition" and the track "March from Idomeneo by Mozart".
As another example, you know there's a song about love by Elvis Presley in
there somewhere, but don't want to leaf through either all the songs about
love, or your extensive Elvis Presley collection. Instead, you can keyword
search for "love" and "elvis" (use the '0' button to separate each keyword),
and you'll get the focused list you're after.
There is now an additional top-level lazy search menu item for keyword
searches, that appears after the existing entry for song searches.
Using keyword searches should be pretty self-explanatory. Multiple words are
entered separated by the '0' key, and the results are filtered to those that
match all keywords. Note that keywords can match anywhere within the song
title, album title or artist name. The results are presented in the normal
artist/album/song hierarchy and PLAY/ADD/INSERT is available from the remote
control as usual. As an example, the keyword search "5683035847" will perform
that Elvis love song search described earlier.
The minimum length of each keyword is four characters by default, but that can
be changed through "Server Settings-Plugins" as for the other defaults. Also,
you can press SEARCH to force a search even with short keywords (if there are
at least two characters).
Note that the lazified database format has changed to support keyword search
and this means the database needs to be re-lazified. The plugin will do this
automatically the first time it is started (so no manual rescan should be
necessary), but be aware that keyword searches won't find all the correct
results until that process has completed.
The plugin now mentions both Squeezebox and Transporter as players.
Other changes:
- Fixed a bug with the use of INPUT.Choice - in the past the user may have not
entered the list at item 1 if other search lists had been looked at
previously.
- The plugin now mentions both the Squeezebox and Transporter as players.
