In hindsight, I never should have kept AudioMan's old collection-based repository/database that long, because it affected the agility of the project. Every new "query" I wanted was a big task. I had delayed replacing it until after the huge MVC rewrite so that I had a known stable repository to work with -- it was about the only thing that didn't change.

Only when the repository started to limit the addition of almost every new feature did I actually replace it with a real relational database: hsqldb. So the project foundered a bit until the database swap.

Now the database allows me to mine the data a *lot* better. To show this off, I've added search to AudioMan. You select a source and then type in a few words into the search text box. AudioMan finds all of the tracks that match the search as you type. This also works on tracks on backed up discs that you've scanned into AudioMan, making it really easy to find where you backed up your stuff.

Check out the search text box in the latest build of AudioMan (nightly or integration, check the build times).