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How does JellyFin search work - mjremijan - 2025-08-13
Can I get more information on how JellyFin search works? Specifically, does it support any kind of conditionals in the search like wildcards AND, OR,....things like that.
My home video titles are farily lengthy and contain a lot of information about the context of the home video. So, if I searched for something like "baseball michael", I'd expect to find videos with the words 'baseball' and 'michael' in the title. Please note, this is NOT just filenames, these are the actual video titles and they show up in JellyFin correctly. But if I search "baseball michael" both including and excluding quotes I get no results. I tried "baseball AND michael" and didn't work either. I tried "baseball*michael", "baseball*michael*", "*anw*michael*" and none of these produced any results.
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RE: How does JellyFin search work - crobibero - 2025-08-13
Jellyfin search is very basic, it just searches if the name contains the search term.
So in your instance the title would need to be something like “playing baseball michael”
Any words between baseball and michael would cause that title to not be found.