Music: search algorithm

tomtom21000 · 2005-03-10, 01:09

There is one thing that works very bad in the music search:

When searching for music info with F3 for a track that is not fully tagged, the results are useless.

Example album: unknown / artist: Meat Loaf
will return you 30 albums with "unknown" in the title. The artist name seems to be completely ignored by the search (so you prbably won´t find the right album)

If searching by the album name only is the best way to implement the search, maybe at least switch to artist search for the keyword "unknown", because cases in which unknown really is part of the album title are rare.

I have no idea how the logic of the seach is now and which possibilities allmusic.com has, but I am quite sure this search behaviour can be improved.

tomtom

LastMar · 2005-03-10, 02:57

It only searches by the album name, no other info is used.

This should be changed...

2005-03-10, 01:09	#1 (permalink)
tomtom21000 Retired Team Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 1,020 Thanks: 7 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts My System	Music: search algorithm There is one thing that works very bad in the music search: When searching for music info with F3 for a track that is not fully tagged, the results are useless. Example album: unknown / artist: Meat Loaf will return you 30 albums with "unknown" in the title. The artist name seems to be completely ignored by the search (so you prbably won´t find the right album) If searching by the album name only is the best way to implement the search, maybe at least switch to artist search for the keyword "unknown", because cases in which unknown really is part of the album title are rare. I have no idea how the logic of the seach is now and which possibilities allmusic.com has, but I am quite sure this search behaviour can be improved. tomtom __________________

2005-03-10, 02:57	#2 (permalink)
LastMar Portal Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 74 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Music: search algorithm It only searches by the album name, no other info is used. This should be changed... __________________ ~mar. Recording PC: Abit AN7, Athlon XP 3000+ 400FSB, 512MB PC3200, AIW 9800Pro, dual 21" CRTs, XP Pro SP2, ATI MMC, MediaPortal For viewing: Celeron 700, 384MB PC133, GeForce4 MX connected to TV, WinXP, MediaPortal

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