Is this the full text search in 7.9?
Maybe it is.
Most likely it is. Your description sounds exactly like a FTS issue.
Perhaps not so bad if the search results with the search string in the title
were to appear at the top of the results
That _should_ be the case already. Are you running the latest 7.9 (or at
least not older than after Christmas)? I did tune the result sorting at
some point, to exactly do what you were looking for: bring direct
matches in the title to the top of the list.
Although I am slightly confused. If I search albums for "Love", I only seem to get
albums with Love in the title (38 hits) less hits than searching for rainbow? I'd expect a lot
more if it found albums containing songs with love in the title. If I search for "Love"
in song titles, I get lots of hits (capped at 500?). Maybe it only does full text search if the
search string is longer than 4 characters?
I was surprised nobody commented on this behaviour before :-). LMS keeps
a list of "hot" keywords, which would return massive result sets.
Typically these are words like "the" or as you experienced, "Love". In
this case the search would _only_ return hits in the title, and none of
the matches in artist names etc. This is simply to guarantee a quick
response time, as processing hundreds or thousands of hits obviously is
much slower than only a few dozens (or less hundreds :-)).
Full text search may be useful in some situations, but less useful if you know
what you are trying to find, IMO. Perhaps would be nice to have Search >
Artist / Album / Songs / Playlist / Full modes.
As Pippin mentioned it's much less of a full text vs. normal search
issue, rather than a how to bring the most relevant hit to the top
challenge. Yahoo's directory is dead. Everybody is just using Google or
Bing or whomever's full text search. Maybe you could share your
library.db file with me, and I'll look in to the particularities of your
data once I'm back.
--
Michael
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