Ideally, if you can’t remember the name of the song you’re looking for, you should be able to type in its lyrics and, provided the file HAS lyrics embedded, have it appear in results.
Problem solved:
Difficulty finding songs you aren’t overly familiar with, haven’t heard in a while, or otherwise aren’t super obvious to remember.
Brought benefits:
Turns Symfonium search into a more robust search engine for your music library and gives embedded lyrics more functionality than just being able to sing along.
Other application solutions:
Spotify has this option. It goes a step further and seems to search for similar words/imperfect matches too but I don’t think that’s necessary
While the idea sounds cool it might be a performance killer for big libraries.
If I search for a track it currently already takes 4ish seconds before results are displayed with ~1m tracks.
Another potential downside is that some people are unaware of embedded lyrics in their files and I have come across files where (for whatever reason) entire books were stored in the LYRICS or UNSYNCEDLYRICS tags as text.
So if Tolriq adds this functionality, I think it should be optional to allow people with big libraries to avoid the potential search performance hit.
Totally fair. I agree about it being optional. Maybe some kind of setting for which metadata fields should be searched when looking things up. My library is probably pretty modest compared to many others
+1 for this! I wish there was a filter so that I can search it only if I want to. Sometimes, I just know the lyrics of the song I’m looking for, and I don’t know what other app could let me search lyrics embedded in the file.
I’m hoping the fact that this wasn’t immediately hit with wont-implement means it’s at least an option for a future update. I still find myself wanting to do this
To be clear, your request is different. I’m not talking about filtering your library yo just any song with lyrics. I’m talking about being able to type lyrics into the search and have it return the song if it has matching embedded lyrics.
I’m just pointing it out because I don’t want this getting slapped with the duplicate tag