Quick search improvements

[Dreamer]

Windows 10 has a very useful feature: press Win key, start typing, press Enter key - program/item is opened!

It's very fast, I can start a calculator for example just like this: Win+cal+Enter - try it!

My suggestion is to add something similar to AIMP, it has a feature Quick search already, there's an issue (reported here), anyway, once it will be fixed/changed, it could be working like this:

- use a global hotkey to activate AIMP and focus Quick search field
- start typing a song name
- press Enter to start playing first song found

Currently when I type a song name and press Enter, nothing happened, filter is working even without Enter, so it has no function, so why not just start playing first song?

This way it could be working like the Windows feature above: Ctrl+Shift+Q+type song name+Enter=play!

Another suggestion, quick search / filter is always active, even after AIMP restart and with the skin I'm using it's not possible to easily deactivate it with mouse, I have to select a text with mouse and press Del key, so my suggestion is to add option:

Deactivate quick search on:
[v] AIMP exit
[v] Tab change
[ ] Next song start playing

Thanks.

[Artem]

- use a global hotkey to activate AIMP and focus Quick search field
- start typing a song name
- press Enter to start playing first song found

Press arrow down / arrow up keys to select the item in list, next - press "enter" to start playing it.

possible to easily deactivate it with mouse

Why? just click on "X" button that located at right side of quick search edit.

[Dreamer]

I tried to press down, up and Enter, but it doesn't work, I tried it with Gilly Matt&Glossy skin and Bliss 4K skin, items look selected, but Enter to play doesn't work.

Why? just click on "X" button that located at right side of quick search edit.

My favorite skin - and it looks almost all other skins don't have the

• button - and it's not possible to edit skin AFAIK. 

Perhaps at least after tab change and/or AIMP exit it could automatically clear that field.

Another suggestion - when I use a hotkey to activate quick search, the text could be selected (if there's any), so it would be possible to easily change it, currently we have to clear old text first.

[Dreamer]

I'm not sure if suggestions above could be implemented, but I have some more, also some workarounds for those above.

AFAIK, "quick search" works exactly the same as "quick filter", so perhaps it could be renamed to "quick filter" - filter list the found items and hide others, quick search show the found items in the new window/tab, but if the same window is used, it's filter IMHO (of course, decision is on you).

Add "Delete" item to the context menu for "quick search" field in playlist - for any skin, if possible, to be able to disable filter with mouse, currently it's impossible (have to use "cut", but it's add the text to clipboard)

And - already requested above, at least the option to empty the quick search/filter field on program exit, or even empty the field always, without option.

Thanks.