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Topic: iOS player search is (sometimes?) case-sensitive and definitely shouldn't be (Read 587 times) previous topic - next topic
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iOS player search is (sometimes?) case-sensitive and definitely shouldn't be

Hi wonderful f2k community,

I love the player on iOS and use it as my daily driver to play music on my iPhone.

However, some of my music files' tags use all-lowercase letters for tags like Title, Artist, etc., and in at least a couple cases, this is literally how the artist themself has released the music, meaning that the all-lowercase versions are canonically correct and accurate (see also, artists with idiosyncratic case usage for their names like the all-caps MF DOOM, or the all-lowercase k.d. lang, etc.).

On iOS, by default the keyboard will capitalize the first letter entered into a field like the foobar2000 search box. When this happens, and I'm searching for a track, an artist, track or album whose tags are not capitalized, then the search returns no results, even if the files are present and indexed in the f2k library!

Oddly, this doesn't seem to happen in all instances, for example, if I search for "steely" (all lowercase), I still get results for the capitalized "Steely." The inverse does not appear to be true, though.

I pleadingly and humbly request of the developers to change the search code to make all searches completely case-insensitive, both ways (upper-to-lower and lower-to-upper), so that I can continue to enjoy my music freely with this wonderful player!

Thank you all so much for any assistance you might offer.

EDIT: I'm using the the latest version available in The App Store, 1.5.0