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Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
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[Enhancement]: Universal/Inter Library Search #556

Open jt196 opened 2 years ago

jt196 commented 2 years ago

Describe the feature/enhancement

So, have a bunch of radio shows and audiobooks. Some of them have an author that exists in both libraries - e.g. Agatha Christie. When I search in Plex, I get a list of all the items in both libraries. Admittedly, there's 2 versions of the author for each library, but it's a useful shortcut.

cyberkoala commented 2 years ago

This might also make opening up multiple libraries more manageable. Use cases: Large multi user deployments may make libraries get unwieldy, if you have 200 or so podcasts, half of which are still updating. Separation of categories - library for news podcasts, library for entertainment. Future proofing if the experimental ebook reader functionality becomes more fully fleshed, meaning most deployments might have 3 different standard libraries..

adocampo commented 1 year ago

Yes, I have the podcast and three libraries, I would like the search tool to search in all my libraries and podcasts, and not to be forced to search in each library for some term.