Search with partial MBID

MusicBrainz
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Hi,

I was wondering, is there any interest in (or is it even possible) implementing a search feature that allows for partial MBID searches?

Skimming through doc/Indexed_Search_Syntax and doc/…API/Search I noticed that some queries allow for (part of) strings. Would be cool if, for example, searching for reid:d1ad9426 (the first house of MBID d1ad9426-9f5b-40da-8d04-b0149195d6b6) found the release via the server search; the MBID field in Search - MusicBrainz, even something like release:d1ad9426 on Picard could narrow down the results too?

Also afaik partial MBID searches (kinda) work on Google.

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What would be the use case? I’m not sure when you have half an MBID :slight_smile:

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What I though was when a portion of the MBID is used for disambiguation like $if(%musicbrainz_albumid%,$left(%musicbrainz_albumid%,8)) in file naming (like IMDb IDs). helps too when files are in a remote so listings and tag scans are slower

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