2024-09-18, 03:26 PM
(2024-09-18, 10:25 AM)pixel24 Wrote: The search functionality in Jellyfin is currently, in my opinion, a disaster when it comes to speed. From what I've read, this is due to tags being included in the search (since version 10.9), but that's only half-knowledge! It gets really terrible when searching with Finamp, where it's even slower than in the web UI. The fact is, a database search should be much faster. So if anyone has a trick up their sleeve to speed up the search, I'd be very interested.
Well I ended up getting impatient last night and installed Jellysearch last night, and it did improve search speed significantly. Searching in the Jellyfin WebUI takes around 1 second instead of 6-7 now. Same in Finamp, but the issue is that it won't return any results when searching under the Artists tab. I'll poke around and see if I can figure it out, but I'm not sure where the issue is. Finamp's logs show the same thing for a successful Album search and an unsuccessful Artist search, and the Jellysearch log just shows "No hits, not proxying" when searching Artists in Finamp. I posted in the Jellysearch thread as well so if anyone has any insight on the issue I can relay it here. Overall I'd still recommend Jellysearch in its current state, since it's literally faster to search for an album, click the album, then click the artist than it is to wait for default Jellyfin search to return anything.