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Search: Metadata vs. Lyrics

I think it's awesome that songbird allows you to really easily find, save and view lyrics for all your music. Brilliant, great job chaps. It's also incredibly handy that the library search feature allows you to search through lyrics because we all know how irritating it is when you've got half a chorus stuck in your head and you can't remember what the darn song is called.

Anyhoo, a new problem arises from this - now when I search for a song or album title I get a couple of hundred hits instead of the 20 or so that I wanted. Therefore what I propose is a little search preferences dialogue box (or part of the drop down search engine list?) or something similar allowing you to choose from the following options when searching your library:

- Search just metadata eg track title, album, artists etc etc
- Search just lyrics
- Search both lyrics and metadeta

Would this be easily implementable? I don't know very much about these things. What do you all think? I've got nearly 18,000 tracks in my library and I think it would be really useful to pin down the song you wanted.

I'm really sorry if somebody has already suggested this but if so, well done because I think it's a great idea... :)

Tim

ps - thank you beautiful people for songbird. It's awesome :)
 
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