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Diskograf’s search is designed to get you to the right song, artist, or label as quickly as possible — whether you know exactly what you’re looking for or you’re exploring from a half-remembered phrase. A plain text search is enough to get started, and a set of structured filters lets you narrow results with precision when you need it. Type any word or phrase into the search bar to search across song titles in the catalogue. You don’t need to know an exact title — partial matches work, and results are ranked so the most relevant entries appear first. Search ranking takes two signals into account:
  • Catalogue importance — songs with richer credit data and broader catalogue coverage rank higher.
  • YouTube activity — songs with stronger engagement on YouTube surface more prominently, helping popular and well-known tracks appear where you’d expect them.

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Search Filters

Filters let you scope your search beyond song titles. Each filter has a full-length form and a single-letter shorthand — both work identically.

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Artist name matching

Artist filters support partial name matching and resolve known aliases automatically. If an artist is catalogued under multiple names, any of their aliases will match.

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Label name matching

Label filters also support partial matching — you don’t need to type the full company name. label:rocket will match Rocketfuel Entertainment Sdn Bhd without requiring the complete string.

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Combining Filters

You can combine plain text with any number of filters in a single search query. Write the filters anywhere in the query — order doesn’t matter.
This example returns songs with “cinta” in the title, performed by an artist matching “siti”, released during the 2000s. A few more examples to show the range of what’s possible:
There’s no limit on how many filters you combine — stack as many as you need to zero in on exactly what you’re looking for.

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Search Tips

Try the following steps in order:
  1. Remove filters one at a time. A combination like year:2005 label:sony artist:ella may be too specific. Remove the most restrictive filter first and see if results appear.
  2. Check your spelling. Partial matches help, but a typo in the first few characters can prevent a match entirely.
  3. Try a shorter search term. Instead of a full title, try the most distinctive single word from it.
  4. Try the artist filter alone. If you’re confident about the artist, searching artist:name on its own will show their full catalogue, and you can scan from there.
Wrap the name in double quotes:
Without quotes, each word is treated as an independent search token. artist:faizal tahir would filter by an artist matching “faizal” and also include the plain text term “tahir” — which is probably not what you want.The same rule applies to multi-word label names:
Yes. Use the decade: filter (shorthand d:) with the opening year of the decade:
This returns all songs released between 1980 and 1989 inclusive. It’s especially useful when you remember the era but not the exact year of a release.You can combine it with other filters as normal:
Diskograf ranks search results using two signals: catalogue importance (how complete and well-documented a song or artist’s record is) and YouTube activity (engagement and view counts on associated videos). Well-documented artists with active YouTube presence will tend to rank higher than entries with sparse data, even if both are a textual match for your query.If you’re looking for a lesser-known artist and they’re not appearing prominently, try using the artist: filter directly rather than a plain text search — this bypasses relevance ranking and returns all matching artist entries.
The search bar is available on every page of Diskograf. Click it or use the keyboard shortcut to open the search palette without navigating away from where you are.