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Why did you cripple the 'search tool' plugin in v3.3.2?

Added by Silvia Cardinalis about 12 years ago

I really loved Audacious for its elegancy combined with essential functionalities. One of those functionalities was the search tool plugin, which was able to find stuff from my music collection in a very awesome way. It did not only search for artist and track title, but also for genre etc and displayed it in a very smart way, using the tag category followed by a colon.

Now today I updated to version 3.3.2 and was very disappointed when I used the search tool. Now it only displays artists, titles and albums. No genre, nothing. This is a huge step backwards and renders Audacious useless for me. What's the point of the search tool if you can't find genres? If I want to do stupid file search for album name (= folder name), artist/title name (= file name), I can just use Nautilus, right?

Please, restore the search tool plugin to its previous function so that it also finds genres. Now I have to uninstall v3.3.2 and install the older version. Hopefully you'll fix this. Otherwise I'd be very sad and would have to switch to another player sooner or later :-(

Audacious was my favorite player. But without a proper search tool plugin, it's awkward.


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RE: Why did you cripple the 'search tool' plugin in v3.3.2? - Added by Lightning Rose about 12 years ago

Silvia,

I'm still running a GTK2 system (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) so I can't test Audacious 3.x and above.

Please try my open source program, Select-o-Magic 3000. It supports mp3, ogg, m4a, and flac audio files and works well with many audio players, including Audacious, my preferred player.

http://som3000.sourceforge.net/

Please let me know how you like it.

John Lindgren and the other developers: I've mentioned this program many times in various messages related to search functions. I hope my suggestion is welcome and not seen as any form of trolling. - Thanks.

L.N. Reed

RE: Why did you cripple the 'search tool' plugin in v3.3.2? - Added by Hermann Kreutsfeld about 12 years ago

At least you can still use the 3.2.x line for a while, as it's maintained for GTK2 systems. hey, this can work for both of you :-) it doesn't have the feature regression and works (maybe) on older OS.

It's written here, in the 3.3 release annoucement :
http://audacious-media-player.org/news/16-audacious-3-3-released

I've came here on redmine after going to that page, btw I put in a silly first name + last name and I'm no german at all.

Lightning Rose, you could switch to linux mint 13 Mate if/when you need to switch to another LTS, it's a pretty natural evolution from what you have now.

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