Incorrect search results about mopidy-beets HOT 3 CLOSED

Apologies, I was doing it wrong :) A quick perusal of the code revealed that I should be doing:
mopidy.library.search({artist: ['Can']}, ['beets:'])

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I'm reopening this because I found that the search results can be improved. Searching the way I put in my second comment does limit the results to 'Can' but it still returns every file which has the letters 'Can' in any metadata field, which is not too useful.

I've edited library.py to format the artist, album, track, and year queries according to the way the beet CLI tool does it:

        for (field, val) in query.iteritems():

            if field == "album":
                search.append('album:'+val[0])
            if field == "artist":
                search.append('artist:'+val[0])
            if field == "track":
                search.append('track:'+val[0])
            if field == "date":
                search.append('date:'+val[0])

This gives the results I'd expect.
You can still use mopidy's 'any' field to enter any generic search - eg year:2002

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thank you for your hint!
Now the search code should work fine for the different categories.

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