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+--- Thread: Where exactly does Search search? (/t-where-exactly-does-search-search)
Where exactly does Search search? - WoodyBABL - 2025-11-06
Using 10.11.2.
Was trying to put together a collection of Christmas episodes, so I searched for Christmas... naturally.
I noticed that an episode of Newhart was missing. The episode description contains "24 guests are snowed in on Christmas Eve."
I thought maybe it needed to have a tag..So I added the tag Christmas to the episode metadata.
Did a search for Christmas and the episode still didn't show up. Tried the search through the Android TV client and the Android phone client. Any idea why the search is ignoring it?
RE: Where exactly does Search search? - crobibero - 2025-11-06
The title. That is it
RE: Where exactly does Search search? - WoodyBABL - 2025-11-06
Wow. That seems limiting.
Just now I went to the Shows library and filtered by the tag Christmas. I see that only picks up if the tag exists for the series not individual episodes.
RE: Where exactly does Search search? - kandykarter - 2025-11-06
Jellyfin's built-in search is getting better, but it's pretty limited, still. There's a plugin where you can connect it to an instance of Meillisearch, which works well (at least for me, on docker, linux, etc, your mileage may vary) and tends to improve results quite a bit.
My favourite example is that if I search "opera" in the standard Jellyfin search, the movie Opera (1987) is the third result. With the Meillisearch plugin, it's the first.
https://github.com/arnesacnussem/jellyfin-plugin-meilisearch