Searching in Banshee - for composer

[mbe57]

Hi all,
1) reading the Search manual I found tons of fields to search for - however: composer is at least as meaningful as all the others - but is missing.
2) But even if it were there: I ran into a probelm to use search expressions at all.
Banshee 1.5 (Ubuntu 9.04 environment) offers search for title, year etc. etc. but entering a search expression takes the relation keywords as terms to search for, regardless of case I use.
Can an experience user pls. guide a newcomer.
TXs and best regards
Michael

[Bertrand Lorentz]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:37 -0700, mbe57 wrote:
> Hi all,
> 1) reading the Search manual I found tons of fields to search for - however:
> composer is at least as meaningful as all the others - but is missing.

It seems that it's working for me : typing "composer:beethoven" in the
search field finds what I want.
But you're right, it's missing from the list of fields in
http://banshee-project.org/support/guide/searching/

> 2) But even if it were there: I ran into a probelm to use search expressions
> at all.
> Banshee 1.5 (Ubuntu 9.04 environment) offers search for title, year etc.
> etc. but entering a search expression takes the relation keywords as terms
> to search for, regardless of case I use.

What exactly are you typing as a search expression ?
The syntax described in the guide should work.

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Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand.lorentz@...>


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[mbe57]

TXs for your advise, Bertrand, the "composer:beethoven" and similar does work indeed.
My trying expressions was a mix of effects: RTFM re. AND (not needed), but I found that - despite different manual statement - "not" does not work, while "NOT" does. "or" works both ways.
Rgds
Michael

Bertrand Lorentz wrote:

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:37 -0700, mbe57 wrote:
> 1) reading the Search manual I found tons of fields to search for - however:
> composer is at least as meaningful as all the others - but is missing.

It seems that it's working for me : typing "composer:beethoven" in the
search field finds what I want.
But you're right, it's missing from the list of fields in
http://banshee-project.org/support/guide/searching/

> 2) entering a search expression takes the relation keywords as terms
> to search for, regardless of case I use.

What exactly are you typing as a search expression ?
The syntax described in the guide should work.

--
Bertrand Lorentz <[e-mail]>