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New Search and Music Library

  • 22 April 2024
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I note from the post announcing the New Search that local music library was not included.  I’m puzzled by this as I can’t be the only person who has hundreds of albums in their local library.  I have two questions:

  • Why was the local library excluded from the local search?
  • Do you have plans to retrofit it into the New Search, and if so when will this happen?
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Best answer by controlav 22 April 2024, 19:07

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New Search uses a frankly bizarre architecture, which I do not understand the reasoning behind.

The search is done entirely in the cloud: this means it knows nothing about your local music (or your personal playlists on music services), plus it is not compatible with every music service (as the services need to be able to handle the “all” category and many do not).

Recommend you stick with Classic Search (or old-old search that the Desktop apps still use).

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Thanks @controlav 

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