MPC format search output

[tony]

Hi, I am trying to use MPC to write a simple php control page and one of the options I would like to use is to search for a song or artist.

The problem I am having is that although the --format option seems to work fine when listing songs by artist or album etc it doesn't work when doing a search or a find.
If I add the option to the end of the line on a search (eg

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mpc find artist "Bad Company" --format "%title%"

) I get back:

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"--format" is not a valid search type: <any|Artist|Album|AlbumArtist|Title|Track|Name|Genre|Date|Composer|Performer|Comment|Disc|MUSICBRAINZ_ARTISTID|MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMID|MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID|MUSICBRAINZ_TRACKID>

If I put the format option before search it is not applied and I just get a list of filenames back.

Does anyone know if there is a way of getting a formatted list back from the search option?

Or is this an MPD problem?

Thanks

Tony

[max]

Wrong parameter order. Read the mpc manual.

[tony]

what other order is there? I tried both, putting the format command first and then again with it at the end.

After reading a bit more it appears that the format does not apply to the search command.

Looks like I will have to write my own system to browse/search songs and just use mpc to play the playlist.

thanks for the help.

[max]

After reading a bit more it appears that the format does not apply to the search command.

Wrong.

[tony]

Thanks again for the very useful answer, however the man page has

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--format
Configure the format of song display for status and the playlist

for the format command.
Nowhere does it mention any other output than Status and Playlist.
Do you have access to another manual for mpc? can you supply the correct syntax for the command I wish to use?

[Rasi]

then your mpc might be too old. this was added in 0.26