First, it seems I'm unable to enter a blank (space) character.

Spaces (and special characters) are completely ignored when matching. For example, I can match "Dazed, Beautiful and Bruised" by pressing 3203323 etc.

I think the highlighting should start with "f" here as well.

I agree. I'll put it on the wishlist.

Whenever the empeg stops playing (because, for example, it finished playing the results of my last search), the Search By ... menu just disappears.

This appears to be a bug.

Oh, and while I'm at it... I have a feature request for the empeg folks: Ignoring "The " is nice for english songs and artists. If you have the time and space, could you add the same for some major foreign languages? German, for example... smile. You could ignore "Der " and "Die " and "Das " at the beginning. Would make finding "Die Fantastischen Vier" easier, and also prove that the empeg team is truely thinking globally... :-)

Good point. We'll have to add this, maybe we could have entries in the config file. Mind you, I might want to skip "Le" from "Le Voyage de Pénélope" even if I speak English. :-)


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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)