diff --git a/src/i18n/en/index.ts b/src/i18n/en/index.ts
index 8818871..87b96ff 100644
--- a/src/i18n/en/index.ts
+++ b/src/i18n/en/index.ts
@@ -1,274 +1,276 @@
 import type { BaseTranslation } from "../i18n-types";
 
 const en = {
-    infoPopup: {
-        buildBy: "Built by ",
-        version: "version",
-        releaseNotes: "Release Notes"
+  infoPopup: {
+    buildBy: "Built by ",
+    version: "version",
+    releaseNotes: "Release Notes"
+  },
+  sidebar: {
+    search: "Search",
+    library: "Library",
+    albums: "Albums",
+    favorites: "Favourites",
+    toDelete: "To Delete",
+    playlists: "Playlists",
+    smartPlaylists: "Smart Playlists",
+    artistsToolkit: "Artist's Toolkit",
+    map: "Map",
+    internetArchive: "Internet Archive",
+    stats: "Stats",
+    openWikiTooltip: "Open Wiki panel for {artist}",
+    addMetadataHint: "Add metadata",
+    takeControl: "Take control of your library",
+    iaMode:
+      "Main player off in Internet Archive mode<br /><br />Stop playback to re-enable"
+  },
+  library: {
+    fields: {
+      title: "Title",
+      artist: "Artist",
+      composer: "Composer",
+      album: "Album",
+      albumArtist: "Album Artist",
+      track: "Track",
+      compilation: "Compil",
+      year: "Year",
+      dateAdded: "Date Added",
+      genre: "Genre",
+      origin: "Origin",
+      duration: "Duration",
+      tags: "Tags"
     },
-    sidebar: {
-        search: "Search",
-        library: "Library",
-        albums: "Albums",
-        favorites: "Favourites",
-        toDelete: "To Delete",
-        playlists: "Playlists",
-        smartPlaylists: "Smart Playlists",
-        artistsToolkit: "Artist's Toolkit",
-        map: "Map",
-        internetArchive: "Internet Archive",
-        stats: "Stats",
-        openWikiTooltip: "Open Wiki panel for {artist}",
-        addMetadataHint: "Add metadata",
-        takeControl: "Take control of your library",
-        iaMode: "Main player off in Internet Archive mode<br /><br />Stop playback to re-enable"
+    resetToFileOrder: "Reset to file order",
+    orderHint: "Showing file order",
+    orderHintTemp: "Showing temporary order",
+    orderDisabledHint: "Switch to file order to re-order tracks",
+    queryNoResultsPlaceholder: "No results for \"{query}\""
+  },
+  bottomBar: {
+    queue: "Queue",
+    lyrics: "Lyrics",
+    lossySelector: {
+      lossy: "lossy",
+      lossless: "lossless",
+      both: "lossy + lossless"
     },
-    library: {
-        fields: {
-            title: "Title",
-            artist: "Artist",
-            composer: "Composer",
-            album: "Album",
-            albumArtist: "Album Artist",
-            track: "Track",
-            compilation: "Compil",
-            year: "Year",
-            dateAdded: "Date Added",
-            genre: "Genre",
-            origin: "Origin",
-            duration: "Duration",
-            tags: "Tags"
-        },
-        resetToFileOrder: "Reset to file order",
-        orderHint: "Showing file order",
-        orderHintTemp: "Showing temporary order",
-        orderDisabledHint: "Switch to file order to re-order tracks"
+    nextUp: "Next Up",
+    stats: {
+      songs: "songs",
+      artists: "artists",
+      albums: "albums"
+    }
+  },
+  smartPlaylists: {
+    builtIn: {
+      recentlyAdded: "Recently Added",
+      favourites: "Favourites"
     },
-    bottomBar: {
-        queue: "Queue",
-        lyrics: "Lyrics",
-        lossySelector: {
-            lossy: "lossy",
-            lossless: "lossless",
-            both: "lossy + lossless"
+    builder: {
+      close: "Close editor",
+      save: "Save",
+      placeholder: "My New Smart Playlist",
+      addNewBlock: "add new block",
+      valid: "query is valid",
+      invalid: "query is invalid",
+      parts: {
+        byArtist: {
+          title: "by artist",
+          example: "eg. by Charlie Parker"
         },
-        nextUp: "Next Up",
-        stats: {
-            songs: "songs",
-            artists: "artists",
-            albums: "albums"
-        }
-    },
-    smartPlaylists: {
-        builtIn: {
-            recentlyAdded: "Recently Added",
-            favourites: "Favourites"
+        releasedBetween: {
+          title: "released between",
+          example: "eg. released between 1950 and 1967"
         },
-        builder: {
-            close: "Close editor",
-            save: "Save",
-            placeholder: "My New Smart Playlist",
-            addNewBlock: "add new block",
-            valid: "query is valid",
-            invalid: "query is invalid",
-            parts: {
-                byArtist: {
-                    title: "by artist",
-                    example: "eg. by Charlie Parker"
-                },
-                releasedBetween: {
-                    title: "released between",
-                    example: "eg. released between 1950 and 1967"
-                },
-                releasedAfter: {
-                    title: "released after",
-                    example: "eg. released after 1950"
-                },
-                releasedIn: {
-                    title: "released in",
-                    example: "eg. released in 1999"
-                },
-                titleContains: {
-                    title: "song title contains {text}",
-                    example: " eg. title contains Love"
-                },
-                longerThan: {
-                    title: "longer than",
-                    example: "eg. longer than 04:00"
-                },
-                containsGenre: {
-                    title: "contains genre",
-                    example: "eg. contains Rock"
-                },
-                fromCountry: {
-                    title: "from country",
-                    example: "eg. from Australia"
-                },
-                byComposer: {
-                    title: "by composer",
-                    example: "eg. by Charles Mingus"
-                },
-                containsTag: {
-                    title: "contains tag",
-                    example: "eg. contains love"
-                }
-            }
+        releasedAfter: {
+          title: "released after",
+          example: "eg. released after 1950"
         },
-        newSmartPlaylist: "New smart playlist",
-        libraryPlaceholder: {
-            title: "Smart playlist results will appear here",
-            subtitle: "Happy searching!"
-        }
-    },
-    trackInfo: {
-        title: "Track Info",
-        subtitle: "Use UP and DOWN to change tracks",
-        overwriteFile: "Overwrite file",
-        fileInfo: "File Info",
-        file: "File",
-        codec: "Codec",
-        tagType: "Tag Type",
-        duration: "Duration",
-        sampleRate: "Sample rate",
-        bitRate: "Bitrate",
-        enrichmentCenter: "Enrichment Center",
-        countryOfOrigin: "Country of Origin",
-        countryOfOriginTooltip:
-            "Set this to use the Map view and filter by country in Smart Playlists",
-        fetchingOriginCountry: "Loading...",
-        save: "Save",
-        fetchFromWikipedia: "Fetch from Wikipedia",
-        artworkReadyToSave: "Ready to save",
-        artworkFound: "Found",
-        noArtwork: "No artwork",
-        artworkTooltip: "Paste image or click to select file",
-        fetchArt: "Fetch Art",
-        metadata: "Metadata",
-        tools: "Tools",
-        aboutArtwork: "About artwork",
-        artworkTooltipTitle: "🎨 Artwork priority",
-        artworkTooltipBody:
-            "<h3 style='margin:0'>🎨 Artwork priority</h3><br/>First, Musicat looks for artwork encoded in the file metadata, which you can overwrite by clicking this square (png and jpg supported). <br/><br/>If there is none, it will look for a file in the album folder called <i>cover.jpg, folder.jpg</i> or <i>artwork.jpg</i> (you can change this list of filenames in Settings).<br/><br/>Otherwise, it will look for any image in the album folder and use that.",
-        encodedInFile: "Encoded in file",
-        bit: "bit",
-        noMetadata: "Song has no metadata",
-        unsupportedFormat:
-            "This file type is not yet supported for metadata viewing/editing",
-        fix: "Fix",
-        errors: {
-            nullChars:
-                "Some tags have a hidden character that prevents them from being read properly."
+        releasedIn: {
+          title: "released in",
+          example: "eg. released in 1999"
         },
-        artist: "artist",
-        fixLegacyEncodings: {
-            title: "Fix legacy encodings",
-            body: "If you have ID3 tags encoded with legacy encodings, you should update them to the universal UTF-8 so they display properly. Select an encoding and click Fix.",
-            hint: "Select encoding..."
+        titleContains: {
+          title: "song title contains {text}",
+          example: " eg. title contains Love"
         },
-        setTitleFromFileNameHint: "Click to set title from filename"
-    },
-    settings: {
-        title: "Settings",
-        library: "Library",
-        audio: "Audio",
-        outputDevice: "Output device",
-        followSystem: "Same as system device",
-        interface: "Interface",
-        features: "Features",
-        subtitle: "Configure stuff",
-        version: "Version",
-        commaSeparatedFilenames: "filenames",
-        llms: "gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, ollama",
-        foldersToWatch: "Folders to watch",
-        folder: "{{1 folder | ?? folders}}",
-        importing: "Importing..",
-        enableArtistsToolkit: "Enable Artist's Toolkit",
-        songbookLocation: "Songbook location",
-        scrapbookLocation: "Scrapbook location",
-        enableAIFeatures: "Enable AI features",
-        aiModel: "AI Model (LLM)",
-        openApiKey: "OpenAI API Key",
-        geniusApiKey: "Genius API Key",
-        discogsApiKey: "Discogs API Key"
-    },
-    wiki: {
-        inArticle: "Found mentions from your library:",
-        clickHint: "Click to scroll to mention",
-        albums: "Albums",
-        songs: "Songs",
-        artists: "Artists"
-    },
-    tagCloud: {
-        close: "Close tags"
-    },
-    artistsToolkit: {
-        header: {
-            songbookLocationHint:
-                "Your songbook location managed by Musicat. Currently set to {path}",
-            songbookLocationHintEmpty:
-                "Please set your songbook location to be managed by Musicat.",
-            showScrapbook: "Show scrapbook",
-            hideScrapbook: "Hide scrapbook"
+        longerThan: {
+          title: "longer than",
+          example: "eg. longer than 04:00"
         },
-        scrapbook: {
-            title: "Scrapbook",
-            setupHint: "Please set up your scrapbook location in settings",
-            notFoundError: "Scrapbook location not found",
-            openSettings: "Open settings",
-            openInFinder: "Open in Finder"
+        containsGenre: {
+          title: "contains genre",
+          example: "eg. contains Rock"
         },
-        songDetails: {
-            tabs: {
-                lyrics: "Lyrics & Chords",
-                files: "Files",
-                other: "Other"
-            },
-            lyricsEditor: {
-                options: {
-                    alignFirstChord: "Align 1st chord"
-                }
-            }
+        fromCountry: {
+          title: "from country",
+          example: "eg. from Australia"
+        },
+        byComposer: {
+          title: "by composer",
+          example: "eg. by Charles Mingus"
+        },
+        containsTag: {
+          title: "contains tag",
+          example: "eg. contains love"
         }
+      }
     },
-    button: {
-        areYouSure: "Click again to confirm"
+    newSmartPlaylist: "New smart playlist",
+    libraryPlaceholder: {
+      title: "Smart playlist results will appear here",
+      subtitle: "Happy searching!"
+    }
+  },
+  trackInfo: {
+    title: "Track Info",
+    subtitle: "Use UP and DOWN to change tracks",
+    overwriteFile: "Overwrite file",
+    fileInfo: "File Info",
+    file: "File",
+    codec: "Codec",
+    tagType: "Tag Type",
+    duration: "Duration",
+    sampleRate: "Sample rate",
+    bitRate: "Bitrate",
+    enrichmentCenter: "Enrichment Center",
+    countryOfOrigin: "Country of Origin",
+    countryOfOriginTooltip:
+      "Set this to use the Map view and filter by country in Smart Playlists",
+    fetchingOriginCountry: "Loading...",
+    save: "Save",
+    fetchFromWikipedia: "Fetch from Wikipedia",
+    artworkReadyToSave: "Ready to save",
+    artworkFound: "Found",
+    noArtwork: "No artwork",
+    artworkTooltip: "Paste image or click to select file",
+    fetchArt: "Fetch Art",
+    metadata: "Metadata",
+    tools: "Tools",
+    aboutArtwork: "About artwork",
+    artworkTooltipTitle: "🎨 Artwork priority",
+    artworkTooltipBody:
+      "<h3 style='margin:0'>🎨 Artwork priority</h3><br/>First, Musicat looks for artwork encoded in the file metadata, which you can overwrite by clicking this square (png and jpg supported). <br/><br/>If there is none, it will look for a file in the album folder called <i>cover.jpg, folder.jpg</i> or <i>artwork.jpg</i> (you can change this list of filenames in Settings).<br/><br/>Otherwise, it will look for any image in the album folder and use that.",
+    encodedInFile: "Encoded in file",
+    bit: "bit",
+    noMetadata: "Song has no metadata",
+    unsupportedFormat:
+      "This file type is not yet supported for metadata viewing/editing",
+    fix: "Fix",
+    errors: {
+      nullChars:
+        "Some tags have a hidden character that prevents them from being read properly."
     },
-    input: {
-        enterHintTooltip: "Press ENTER to autocomplete"
+    artist: "artist",
+    fixLegacyEncodings: {
+      title: "Fix legacy encodings",
+      body: "If you have ID3 tags encoded with legacy encodings, you should update them to the universal UTF-8 so they display properly. Select an encoding and click Fix.",
+      hint: "Select encoding..."
     },
-    albums: {
-        title: "Albums",
-        options: {
-            orderBy: "order by",
-            orderByFields: {
-                title: "Title",
-                artist: "Artist",
-                year: "Year"
-            },
-            showSingles: "show singles",
-            showInfo: "show info",
-            gridSize: "grid size"
-        },
-        scrollToNowPlaying: "Scroll to Now playing",
-        item: {
-            tracksLabel: "tracks"
-        }
+    setTitleFromFileNameHint: "Click to set title from filename"
+  },
+  settings: {
+    title: "Settings",
+    library: "Library",
+    audio: "Audio",
+    outputDevice: "Output device",
+    followSystem: "Same as system device",
+    interface: "Interface",
+    features: "Features",
+    subtitle: "Configure stuff",
+    version: "Version",
+    commaSeparatedFilenames: "filenames",
+    llms: "gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, ollama",
+    foldersToWatch: "Folders to watch",
+    folder: "{{1 folder | ?? folders}}",
+    importing: "Importing..",
+    enableArtistsToolkit: "Enable Artist's Toolkit",
+    songbookLocation: "Songbook location",
+    scrapbookLocation: "Scrapbook location",
+    enableAIFeatures: "Enable AI features",
+    aiModel: "AI Model (LLM)",
+    openApiKey: "OpenAI API Key",
+    geniusApiKey: "Genius API Key",
+    discogsApiKey: "Discogs API Key"
+  },
+  wiki: {
+    inArticle: "Found mentions from your library:",
+    clickHint: "Click to scroll to mention",
+    albums: "Albums",
+    songs: "Songs",
+    artists: "Artists"
+  },
+  tagCloud: {
+    close: "Close tags"
+  },
+  artistsToolkit: {
+    header: {
+      songbookLocationHint:
+        "Your songbook location managed by Musicat. Currently set to {path}",
+      songbookLocationHintEmpty:
+        "Please set your songbook location to be managed by Musicat.",
+      showScrapbook: "Show scrapbook",
+      hideScrapbook: "Hide scrapbook"
     },
-    trackMenu: {
-        removeFromLibrary: "Remove {{track | ?? tracks}} from library",
-        deleteFile: "Delete {{file | ?? files}}",
-        deleteFileHint: "Move to system Trash / Recycle bin"
+    scrapbook: {
+      title: "Scrapbook",
+      setupHint: "Please set up your scrapbook location in settings",
+      notFoundError: "Scrapbook location not found",
+      openSettings: "Open settings",
+      openInFinder: "Open in Finder"
     },
-    toDelete: {
-        title: "To Delete",
-        description: "Tracks to delete from Prune Mode",
-        keepAllBtn: "Keep all",
-        deleteAllBtn: "Move all to trash",
-        notification: {
-            deleting: "Deleting {{track | ?? tracks}}",
-            deleted: "Deleted {{track | ?? tracks}}"
+    songDetails: {
+      tabs: {
+        lyrics: "Lyrics & Chords",
+        files: "Files",
+        other: "Other"
+      },
+      lyricsEditor: {
+        options: {
+          alignFirstChord: "Align 1st chord"
         }
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  button: {
+    areYouSure: "Click again to confirm"
+  },
+  input: {
+    enterHintTooltip: "Press ENTER to autocomplete"
+  },
+  albums: {
+    title: "Albums",
+    options: {
+      orderBy: "order by",
+      orderByFields: {
+        title: "Title",
+        artist: "Artist",
+        year: "Year"
+      },
+      showSingles: "show singles",
+      showInfo: "show info",
+      gridSize: "grid size"
+    },
+    scrollToNowPlaying: "Scroll to Now playing",
+    item: {
+      tracksLabel: "tracks"
+    }
+  },
+  trackMenu: {
+    removeFromLibrary: "Remove {{track | ?? tracks}} from library",
+    deleteFile: "Delete {{file | ?? files}}",
+    deleteFileHint: "Move to system Trash / Recycle bin"
+  },
+  toDelete: {
+    title: "To Delete",
+    description: "Tracks to delete from Prune Mode",
+    keepAllBtn: "Keep all",
+    deleteAllBtn: "Move all to trash",
+    notification: {
+      deleting: "Deleting {{track | ?? tracks}}",
+      deleted: "Deleted {{track | ?? tracks}}"
     }
+  }
 } satisfies BaseTranslation;
 
 export default en;
diff --git a/src/i18n/i18n-types.ts b/src/i18n/i18n-types.ts
index aa8f168..57d4f0b 100644
--- a/src/i18n/i18n-types.ts
+++ b/src/i18n/i18n-types.ts
@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ type RootTranslation = {
 		 * S​w​i​t​c​h​ ​t​o​ ​f​i​l​e​ ​o​r​d​e​r​ ​t​o​ ​r​e​-​o​r​d​e​r​ ​t​r​a​c​k​s
 		 */
 		orderDisabledHint: string
+		/**
+		 * N​o​ ​r​e​s​u​l​t​s​ ​f​o​r​ ​"​{​q​u​e​r​y​}​"
+		 * @param {unknown} query
+		 */
+		queryNoResultsPlaceholder: RequiredParams<'query'>
 	}
 	bottomBar: {
 		/**
@@ -951,6 +956,10 @@ export type TranslationFunctions = {
 		 * Switch to file order to re-order tracks
 		 */
 		orderDisabledHint: () => LocalizedString
+		/**
+		 * No results for "{query}"
+		 */
+		queryNoResultsPlaceholder: (arg: { query: unknown }) => LocalizedString
 	}
 	bottomBar: {
 		/**
diff --git a/src/lib/library/CanvasLibrary.svelte b/src/lib/library/CanvasLibrary.svelte
index b76891f..d3f3219 100644
--- a/src/lib/library/CanvasLibrary.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/library/CanvasLibrary.svelte
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
     import ImportPlaceholder from "./ImportPlaceholder.svelte";
     import TrackMenu from "./TrackMenu.svelte";
     import Scrollbar from "../ui/Scrollbar.svelte";
+    import QueryResultsPlaceholder from "./QueryResultsPlaceholder.svelte";
 
     export let allSongs = null;
     export let dim = false;
@@ -2474,6 +2475,9 @@
                 {#if $isSmartQueryBuilderOpen && noSongs}
                     <SmartQueryResultsPlaceholder />
                 {/if}
+                {#if $query.query?.length && noSongs}
+                    <QueryResultsPlaceholder />
+                {/if}
             </div>
         </div>
     {/if}
diff --git a/src/lib/library/QueryResultsPlaceholder.svelte b/src/lib/library/QueryResultsPlaceholder.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b773bac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/library/QueryResultsPlaceholder.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+    import { query } from "../../data/store";
+    import LL from "../../i18n/i18n-svelte";
+</script>
+
+<div>
+    <h2>{$LL.library.queryNoResultsPlaceholder({ query: $query.query })}</h2>
+</div>
+
+<style lang="scss">
+    div {
+        position: absolute;
+        top: 0;
+        bottom: 0;
+        left: 0;
+        right: 0;
+        display: flex;
+        margin: auto;
+        height: fit-content;
+        flex-direction: column;
+        align-items: center;
+        justify-content: center;
+        z-index: 12;
+        small {
+            margin-top: 1em;
+            opacity: 0.5;
+        }
+    }
+</style>