>Most likely it is. Your description sounds exactly like a FTS issue.
>
Yes, I'm sure that's it now I have had a play.

>> 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.
>
I am on latest, pulled down 7.9 yesterday.

>I was surprised nobody commented on this behaviour before :-). LMS keeps 
>a list of "hot" keywords, which would return massive result sets. 
>
Hmmm.

>> 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.

I'm not convinced I like it too much, TBH.  A useful feature to have, but not 
as the default for Albums search.

I typically play albums.  I have a lot, so I don't browse for the album I want 
to play, it is quicker to search for the title.

It is much less often that I search for songs, and when i do search for a song 
its because I want to play it, not the whole album, so less often than that 
that I want to find an album that contains a word on a song.

It seemed particularly strange when I selected on Touch interface Search > 
Rainbow > My Music > Albums, as I had previously searched for artists and 
songs, which only search by artist title or song title.  Full text search only 
applies to album and playlist search modes?

>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.
Sure, where would you like me to send it?
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