Hey guys, I guess i'm missing something here, I just can't figure out how to search through my n900 device. So for instance, i want to find a song on my n900, so i open the music in media player and just start writing letters. Working fine but only when i type the letters with which the song begins.. For example, i want to play "The Beatles - I want to hold your hand", i type in "The" (so it will find The beatles) or i type in "I want" (so it will find I want to hold your hand) - it just searches for songs that start with the letters I type in. But what if, for instance, i can't remember the whole title of the song, i just know that "hand" is in it.. So i write in "hand" and nothing turns up. Is there another way to search through songs? I hope you get my point. Thanks in advance for your answers.

I don't have any music on my n900 else I would try myself. Try using wild cards.

In your case "*hold you*" would get the song you want.

This should work way better in a future version now that https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5388 has been fixed internally.

Unfortunately that doesn't work. It looks like it is currently limited to a prefix search.

Olympus, if you'd like to help you could create a brainstorm requesting that the mediaplayer UI be open sourced as described here:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_developme...losed_packages

The framework that mediaplayer is built on is open so it's conceivable that Nokia might go through with that. If we can get them to release the source code I will do some work to add full string search. It might be a little tricky with a large music library but the N900 should be powerful enough to index substrings.