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Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
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[Enhancement]: Search to include titles / descriptions #3301

Open rynh opened 2 months ago

rynh commented 2 months ago

Type of Enhancement

Server Backend

Describe the Feature/Enhancement

It'd be helpful if search would include item titles (and perhaps descriptions?) Most useful for podcasts. Search will catch the podcast title but not episodes within.

Not sure if indexing descriptions would bloat the index with large libraries, especially it searches as you type (which is a great look!)

Why would this be helpful?

Would be very helpful for large backlogs.

Future Implementation (Screenshot)

As search box is used it'd include these additional fields.

Audiobookshelf Server Version

2.12.3

Current Implementation (Screenshot)

No response

chenpinetree commented 2 months ago

I also need this function very much and I completely agree.

contributor commented 2 months ago

You already can search in title/description of a podcast. Though not from top bar search box, but from specific podcast: image

chenpinetree commented 2 months ago

You already can search in title/description of a podcast. Though not from top bar search box, but from specific podcast: image

Thank you for the update. However, could you also add this feature to audiobooks? I’ve prepared fairy tales for my child, and there are hundreds of episodes, each with a different story and title. I’ve placed all these stories in a ‘Children’s Stories’ folder, but there’s no way to search for a specific story when we want to listen to specificc one. If I use the search function now, I have to place this folder inside the ‘Podcasts’ folder. So have to switch between the audiobooks and podcasts databases.

In addition, there are audiobooks with numbered chapters, it's really helpful to have a search feature for the chapters names.

Also, why not add it to the top bar search? Wouldn’t that be more convenient?

rynh commented 1 month ago

You already can search in title/description of a podcast. Though not from top bar search box, but from specific podcast: image

Thanks, didn't notice this in the web view. If this could be added to the mobile app that'd be great.

I think the main search bar may be more intuitive though.

contributor commented 1 month ago

Sure, using main search would be more convenient

contributor commented 1 month ago

there’s no way to search for a specific story when we want to listen to specificc one

You can search audiobooks from main search. Title and Subtitle fields are searchable.

chenpinetree commented 1 month ago

there’s no way to search for a specific story when we want to listen to specificc one

You can search audiobooks from main search. Title and Subtitle fields are searchable.

Title of the chapters are not searchable.