New App - Search & Browse feature

I like the new search feature aswell and the fact I can go to an individual music service and just search the one service. I think once a local library search is available in the new App, that will make it better than the S2 App for a good many things. At least it suits the way I prefer to search for things.

The search history feature is really helpful too.

The old search listed each service separately too (including local search).

Can you filter by what you're actually looking for now in the latest version?  i.e. songs, artists, albums etc. and not the whole results lumped together or is that useful option still gone?

You can filter. It shows results for your default music service, you can switch to results from your other services. It’s just search, old and new get you to the same spot. They tested this search for a long time with the old app so no surprise this is one thing that works in the new app. 

OK, so in the results, it allows you to select Albums etc. (like the classic search) so I only see albums with the result and not Artists for example?

If you do it by selecting a single MSP it looks like this (a search for Genesis in this instance). The results are separated into Artists/Songs/Albums/Playlists etc. and the user can drill-down further into each category or item…  or the user can switch to a different service, Apple Music, Sonos Radio, Plex etc.

Screenshot: (It doesn’t show everything available, but the screen does scroll to show further categories such as Stations)…

OK.  From your example, if you search for the word Genesis because you want to find albums with the word Genesis (not by the band Genesis), how is this done?  It looks like selecting the Album filter doesn't achieve this, it's just somewhere in the meta data?

I also see a Your Library option above, what is in there, I thought you couldn't do that in the latest release?

Is there still an ‘All’ box to show all results?

It’s not my local NAS library - that’s my Amazon library - I have the same for the Apple Music iCloud library aswell, but a local library search should be coming in the near future, I believe🤞

To see all albums by a specific band I usually drill down via the Artist icon itself, which looks like this for Amazon Music (again the screen scrolls for more albums by the artist)…

Apple Music is similar, but no ‘Top Songs’ option or ‘Station’ above the list of Albums.

@sjw,

I can actually search my local NAS library too though at the moment simply by using Plex. This is what I see stored on the local NAS for the same search term:

OK, but I wasn't asking about finding albums by a specific artist, it was finding albums with a specific word in the name. Obviously it could be anything but in your ‘Genesis’ example, it is to find albums with the word genesis in the name of the album, not necessarily by the band. The classic search would return album names with Genesis in if the Album filter was selected and albums by the band Genesis if the Artist filter is selected.

In that instance, I would just expand the Albums category (‘view all’) and look in there, I guess, but that’s assuming I could not see the album searched for on the initial screen. I would think on most occasions it would be on the main screen display. 

The new search will return albums with the name in it or albums by Genesis. 

It should find Songs, Stations and Playlist too, aswell as Artists and Albums, with the chosen search-terms too, within some limitations, at least, but I guess the more that you know about what you’re looking for, the easier it is to then find things… there’s also the option to search all the installed music services in one fell swoop (but not a local library ‘directly’ at the moment).

Wouldn't that show lots of ‘noise’/results that don't have the word Genesis in?

Yeah, perhaps - and that sometimes can lead me to discovering new artists and music, so I’m okay with that.