v1.14.4
Search on the web was only ever showing three songs per query. It now shows twenty, like the app always did.
Reported as "web pe bahut songs missing hote hain". Nothing was failing and nothing was being filtered — the page was simply asking the wrong endpoint.
Only three results per section
The web search called the catalogue's type-ahead endpoint — the one meant to fill a dropdown while you are still typing. It returns three items per section and no more, whatever the query. Measured against the real search endpoint on the same words: three songs versus twenty for “kesariya”, where the catalogue actually holds over a thousand; three versus twenty for “santali song” out of 816; three versus twenty for “arijit singh” out of 4,616. The Android app had always used the real endpoint, which is why the same search looked so much richer on the phone. Albums, artists and playlists were capped the same way and are fixed too.
Artists could collapse to a single row
Found while fixing the above. Results from the two sources are merged and de-duplicated by id — but an artist entry has no id, it is identified by a token. Every artist therefore looked like the same entry and all but one was discarded. The merge now uses the right key for each kind.
Good to know
- The type-ahead call is still made — it is what produces the "best match" card at the top, which the full search does not return. Both now run in parallel, and either can fail without emptying the page.