> I'm not sure there is any other text to be searched for in artists apart
> from the name, so it probably makes no difference there.

The main advantage for artist searches is that eg. "clapton king" would find 
"Eric Clapton / B.B. King", while the normal search wouldn't. It's a bit less 
strict.

> And possibly some value in searching tracks and albums, by looking into
> artists, comments, lyrics. Although that can be done fairly well,
> possibly better by using the advanced search. Trouble is, it can make
> title searches difficult by producing too many results.

As I wrote in the previous posting I think there's room for improvement in the 
weighting algorithm.

> Just makes me wonder now why nobody ever implemented a better playlist
> search.

Nobody cared enough, I guess. I think of all the SB engineers working on LMS 
nobody was a playlist user. I certainly am not :-).
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