[Obsolete] Really inconsistent search results

This issue is obsolete, since the Media Type selection dropdown has been removed from the Global Search field.

Server Version#: 1.31.3.6819
Player Version#: 4.103.2 (Plex Web)

When I use advanced filters Track Title contains "from" , it finds 74 tracks in my classical music library and 38 in my ‘everything else’ library.

When I enter “from” in the global search field (limited to Music) and select “View all results,” it finds 30 tracks (old complaint), but only 16 of them have “from” in the track title. It appears to have switched to tracks from albums that have “from” in the album title.

In the world of “fuzzy” searches (which should be optional), this might be a reasonable result, but only after “non-fuzzy” results are listed.

Plex Media Server Logs_2023-03-21_09-13-21.zip (4.1 MB)

How did you limit the search? There isn’t an option to search specific libraries, only servers. Can you provide screenshots. It’s a little hard to comprehend just from your description.

@anon18523487 guessing limiting to the type here.

Plex

the global search, searches everything, in music that includes albums. Afaik it just giving a mix of both. ( I understand you don’t like the 30 limit)

That’s correct.

I suppose that’s the case. It just seems very unintuitive. Especially when there’s a line above that shows albums with “from” in the album title. With that, it doesn’t really make sense for the “Tracks” results to be coming from albums with the search term.

Oh wow. I never used that. :hide:

It appears to work fine for me, but I don’t have anything that results in more than 30+ results so that may be a factor.

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