When creating a Sonic Adventure, please give the ability for the search to find tracks by ARTIST or ALBUM in addition to Track Name. Sometimes I want to add a song, but I don’t know the name of the song… I only know the artist, or maybe the album. Right now there’s no way to add a track unless I know enough of the track name that it appears in the search results.
For example, I want to add the song “Computer Blue” by Prince (from the album Purple Rain) to a Sonic Adventure, but I can’t remember the name of the song, and I can’t just search “Prince” or “Purple Rain” to find it. Or maybe I remember the song has “Computer” in the name. But searching only “Computer” brings up 6 other songs in my library that aren’t a match (e.g. “Computer Camp Love” by Datarock).
There need to be other ways to add a track to a Sonic Adventure other than knowing the exact song name.
This is a server limitation, we don’t return tracks for artist/album matches. We actually used to, but found that it cluttered the results too much.
I can see where you might find value in what you’re describing, not least because the search tab (where you might find information you need) is on the same tab as sonic adventure.
First, searching “Computer” in Sonic Adventure shows only 3 tracks, two of which are from the same artist. Why only 3 tracks? Why these tracks? Why these artists? Unclear.
Second, searching “Computer” via the regular Search UI, then selecting Tracks. Results show 44 tracks with “Computer” in the name. I only show the first screen of results.
This difference makes no sense. It’s pointlessly frustrating. It seems reasonable to get the same results in both places.
What is going on with Sonic Adventure search vs regular Search?
Why doesn’t starting a search with Magnet match ALL of the tracks in the below screenshots? “Magnet” should match “Magnet’s” and “Magnetic”, no? Especially when there aren’t a ton of results to begin with. I don’t understand why Sonic Adventure search only shows the song Magnet by Bikini Kill, and not the other ones.
Why do neither of these search options find the track Animal Magnetism by Scorpions? (It’s both an album name and a track name) BUT weirdly, if I search for that track on my Plex server directly through the web interface, it shows Animal Magnetism listed under Tracks.
Plex via the web interface shows the track Animal Magnetism if I search for “Animal Magnetism” (first screenshot), but does NOT show the track if I only search for “Magnetism”. But it does show the album by the same name. (second and third screenshots) ----- this makes ZERO sense.
“Magnetism Scorpions” also doesn’t find the track. But it does on Apple Music and Spotify.
If I can ONLY search for Tracks in Sonic Adventure, but it can’t find tracks based on a partial title match, this is a broken feature. Since Plex offers no direct support, I’m hoping someone will see this and reply and fix it in the near future?
Search is still totally screwed up in Plexamp. I’m trying to search within Sonic Adventure for the track “Toni How Did You Get So Cynical”. One would think that searching “Toni” would show it as the first result. But no.
I also can’t make sense of how Plex chooses which songs to display in the results, and the order it displays them in. Seems to be totally random. Why does it show only these 9 songs, and not the songs in the second list of results? Both lists match the first search string.
Here’s regular Plexamp search (the magnifying glass tab) which is even worse! It only shows THREE tracks (I didn’t cut off anything in the screenshot, that’s all it shows), and there’s no arrow next to Tracks to see more. WTF?
Search on Plex web seems mostly ok? It appears to 1) Show the track I’m looking for at the top and 2) Show all tracks where “toni” appears somewhere in the title (there are dozens of tracks in the list when I scroll down).
Why can’t Plexamp get this right? Why are there so many different results depending on where I’m initiating the search? This should be the same results everywhere in Plex and Plexamp.
Am I the only one who things Search is a baseline feature that should work 100% correctly every time?
More madness. This is the regular Search. There’s a track by Fujiya & Miyagi called Artificial Sweeteners (on the album of the same name). Plexamp seems to think this track doesn’t exist. It’s also not shown in Plex web either.
But if I search for “Artificial l” (that’s an L) it shows one of the tracks I would expect, but also shows the track “Little Stabs at Happiness” even though it doesn’t have “Artificial l” anywhere in the name, not even a little bit.
Why is “Artificial Light” not shown when I search for just “Artificial” ???
Still frustrated by these unreliable search results, and the fact that I can’t add tracks to Sonic Adventure via searching for the artist or album and then drilling down to the track I want. It’s very inconvenient, to say the least, that I have to know the exact track name to add it.
I’ll weigh in here with a left turn: I’ve always thought that it would make more sense to add a “start/add-to Sonic Adventure“ menu item to the long press menu for single tracks. It seems like this would address OP’s issue without needing difficult and specific search expansion.
The only issue obvious with this approach is that it’s not 100% intuitive what should happen when choosing to start a sonic adventure with only one track. Seems like good enough choices could be made though (eg: don’t start playback until a second song is added)
Especially if there was a way to Save individual Sonic Adventures. Perhaps then we could Favorite our top 3 Sonic Adventures, and those would appear in the menu as “Add to Sonic Adventure > Armand’s Adventure #1”
I would LOVE the ability to:
Save Sonic Adventures
Easily add Tracks by drilling down through my library (via Artist or Album) to find a track
Add new tracks to existing Sonic Adventures (see: Saving above)
Be able to drag and rearrange the seed tracks within a Sonic Adventure to spawn different intermediary tracks
Combine two or more Sonic Adventures for a new listening experience (either temporary or permanent merging).
