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Search does not work as expected聽#154
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馃寧 Environment
- Environment: Production
- Device: Samsung M21
- OS: Android 12
- App Version & Build: 1.0.7
馃挰 Description
It seems that the search function searches for individual words, not sentences. For example, when I type "sun" it shows me multiple results for the word sun. Great.
Notice there are a couple of songs that start with "The sun" but when I search for "the sun". Those songs doesn't show up, instead its matching "The Sound" picking s u n separately. "The Sun WIll Rise" was a much better match than "The Sound" but its not even present in the list. Sorry it was snowing in S2 for some reason 馃槅
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timusus commentedon Sep 26, 2026
Fixed on main by the rewritten search (typo-tolerant word index,
SearchIndexin:android:mediaprovider:core). Query tokens match whole words or word prefixes; a token of three letters or fewer gets no typos, so "sun" can no longer match the scattered letters of "The Sound", and a leading "the" is optional. Pinned inSearchLibraryTest("matches a phrase by its words, not by scattered letters"): "the sun" returns "The Sun Will Rise" first, then "Sunward", and never "The Sound". The test lands with the next push to main.test(app): pin that search matches a phrase by its words