iPod Search for iPhone – where for art thou?

Driving to work this morning, I had my iPhone playing on Shuffle mode. A song came on my White Zombie, and as I listened, I thought to myself that I'd like to go ahead and hear more from young Robert, both solo and with ensemble.

It was at this moment that I realized that the iPod function of the iPhone is missing a Search feature! What the hey?

As you'll possibly recall, Apple added a search function to the iPod back in late 2006. This allowed a user to scroll through a Search menu and enter in enough characters to pull up a specific artist or album.

So I'm a little dumbfounded to learn that there isn't any way to search my iPod for an item in my library. In fact, I've been poring through the menus, websites and docs from everywhere trying to make sure I am not just somehow totally oblivious to this feature (am I???).

Imagine the possibilities...instead of pulling over (or trying to do it while driving, ha) and adding all songs from 'Rob Zombie' & 'White Zombie' to a playlist, I could instead just hit Search -> Artist and enter 'Zombie'. Just like in iTunes, I would then see only items that contain the artist 'Zombie'. I then hit Shuffle and am able to easily and quickly play those tracks.

So I ask you, dear reader, to please use the iPhone Feedback Form and let Apple know that we want to search our iPod library!

Don't make fun of my musical tastes, Rob Zombie makes awesome driving music!

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  • Fofer
    Not sure if the date on the post above is accurate. Yesterday? 7/29/09? Because Spotlight is on the iPhone (OS 3.0) now, you can search for songs rather easily. Either in the iPod app itself, or the Spotlight screen.

    Must be an old comment. We've had Contact searching on the iPhone for awhile now.

    You can sort of do "More from this Album" when shuffling. Click the "track listing" icon and the other tracks for the album will come up. Pick any other track and it will drop out of shuffle mode and play the tracks from the album. Then you can click the shuffle icon when you are tired of that album and want to pick up some more music.

    I've wanted "More from this Artist" when shuffling music since iPod 1.0, though. Hopefully we'll see it added someday soon.
  • Josh
    Even sillier: You *are* able to search via the keyboard in the iTunes Wireless Store. (Why they don't extend that same search capability to the Music app, for searching songs/artists/albums, I have no idea.) While we're wondering, why the ^&*$ is this not available in Contacts? It's practically required there.

    What I'd really like to see, when playing music on shuffle are two buttons:
    -More from this Artist
    -More from this Album
    That way, no search is even needed.

    But, along with this, I'd like to see Search capabilities everywhere. It's running OS X, right? Then throw Spotlight on that sucker!
  • ZeeZee
    I never noticed that before. Why have a keyboard if you aren't going to use it?
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