Improve search behavior for foreign songs, artists & albums

[nuibance]

Feature description:

Improve search behavior for foreigns songs on Navidrome/Subsonic using albumsort, titlesort, and artistsort to match the searching experience provided by other Navidrome/Subsonic clients like substreamer.

Problem solved:

It will make songs, albums, & artists more searchable to people looking for them.

Brought benefits:

It will make songs, albums, & artists more searchable to people looking for them.

Other application solutions:

On other clients they use the sort tags for searching songs titles, albums and artists.

Additional description and context:

 

 

Screenshots / Mockup:

    

[Tolriq]

This is already the case and more.

What is your actual issue.

[nuibance]

I cant use Songs albums and artists sort tags to search.

Same artist on different apps. It happens with albums and songs as well

[Tolriq]

Provide logs during a sync to see what the server sends.

[nuibance]

Log
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[Tolriq]

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    "status": "ok",
    "version": "1.16.1",
    "type": "navidrome",
    "serverVersion": "0.56.1 (fa2cf362)",
    "openSubsonic": true,
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          "albumCount": 2,
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        },
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    }
  }
}

Those are the sort names returned by Navidrome. As you can see not what you expect. If you are sure of your tags then it’s probably an issue for @deluan

[deluan]

As I mentioned in Navidrome’s Discord, you have to set PreferSortTags to true in your config.