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Help Quick Search Box and Music?

What I find myself doing frequently is just opening the music app and hitting the search key. That way at least you know you are only searching music so its a bit quicker and more organized. I also use an app called TalkToMe Keyboard, which enables me to use the built in Google voice engine for any kind of text input. I use this for long band names such as "As I Lay Dying" because there are too many "As" and "dying" keywords in my library to make for a useful search. Much better to just say it, especially while driving - even with Pandora!
 
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Yep. I see that entry at the end, but it only tells me about YouTube and Weatherbug matches (which are also checked). Never shows me any of my music.

Of course I do know I can search for music from within the music app, but the point of the unified google search is that it is supposed to find stuff on my phone, and I have explicitely told it to include my music in the results and it is not...

Just want to see if there is any other trick...
 
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I was able to get it working properly with much more than 1000 songs.

What you need to do is make sure that it has updated the indexes, do this by clicking on "Artists" or "Albums" from the main page. You should see a spinning circle in the top right while it is indexing. Once it stops try searching.

I was not able to get it to work with >7500 tracks, might just be that it runs out of memory, since I tried splitting my music in half (3500 tracks each) and both sets worked fine...
 
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And you weren't able to search? What happens when you try?

When I do, I enter the text, if I pause and wait a few seconds before completing it, I will see a list of matches while the keyboard is still up. Otherwise I complete it, and I get a black screen with my search criteria at the bottom, and then after a few seconds I get the results.

If that indeed doesn't work for you, I would try what I did, remove your music, and add it back in chunks; maybe there is some improperly tagged songs?
 
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Ok, I tried that and maybe it is working - just not how I thought it would. I've been entering a word and pressing the search key, which just takes me to a Google search results screen.

But going by your instructions, I entered the word and didn't hit the search button. Instead, there is a list of suggested search items below. If I scroll all the way down that list, I see another option - More Results. If I expand that, it shows me the matches I have in my music collection.

That works for me - I'll just have to remember not to actually hit the search key.

Thanks for the help!
 
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Right, that's how it should work if you are using the search outside of the context of the music app.

If you are in the music app, either selecting search from the setting soft key at the bottom, or when you hit the search soft key at them bottom when you are in the application home page (where you see the four big buttons for Artists, Albums, Tracks, and Playlists (if I am not mistaken).
 
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