Not happening, not by default.  Your only hope is to file a bug for configurable default search fields (which I think is already filed).  We can't search everything by default or our performance will suffer terribly.

Reopening, because this is in fact a valid bug. Not addressing this issue one way or the author means that Banshee will be completely useless for classical music, since e.g. searching for "Mozart" will *not find* music by Mozart.

Technical suggestion/braindump: concatenate the contents of the fields to be searched through by default (artist, album, title, composer, conductor) into one string database column and search that column if no search namespace was given (and perhaps index it).

(In reply to comment #1)
> Not happening, not by default.  Your only hope is to file a bug for
> configurable default search fields (which I think is already filed).

I couldn't find one. Any reason this couldn't become that?

> We can't 
> search everything by default or our performance will suffer terribly.

Understandable. Would it affect performance if we added composer and conductor by default? I know not everyone has classical music in their collection but, for those that don't, would searching on empty fields affect performance?

*** Bug 629980 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project
to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the
responsibility for active development again.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.