seraching and finding music

[waeller]

Hi!

I' using twonky running on a Activy Media server ams150.

Everytime i'm seraching a artist (or song oralbum) I have to go through music/artist/...

Then the List of all artists is shown. To find my favourite artists i use the search button on the remote control. But the np2900 only finds the artist if I have spelled it correctly and completly.
Phill Collins ist only found if i type "Phill Collins".
No results with "Phil" or "collins "

Is there a way to do a wildcard search like "phil" or "*phil*"?
How do you search and find your favourite music?


kind regards,
waeller

[Blechtrottel]

Dear Waeller,
following is mentioned in the User Manual.

SEARCH is using the search mechanism as provided by the Server. in your case the AMS150. I did some analysis and this indeed happens. They issue a UPnP search @ the server.

I've tried a query with similar logic as you mention below - I searched for "ella" and it found "Ella and Fitzgerald". Even I change the string to "Ell" it still finds it. Based on this test the unit surely won't need wildcards.

Guess you've to find out what SEARCH algorhym your AMS150 supports.

I guess the reason Philips has chosen this SEARCH @ Server is the fact that it will go always faster than using a search from the device (load list, check, reload list, check ...).

[waeller]

Hi!
Thank you for your answer.

There was a misconfiguration on my ams150 running twonkymedia.
Now after finetuning the configuration it works fine.

kind regards,
waeller

[Borner]

btw: is there a way to cancel an runnig "search"?