>For instance a search for dar >si moo will bring up the album Dark Side of the Moon instantly, provided >it is in your library. > A search for "Dar si moo" for me returns 25 hits, including some very weird hits that I can't instantly work out why they matched. "Dark side of the moon" was indeed the top 3 matches (original PF album, remastered album, and version by the Flaming Lips). But actually I expected "Dark Side of the Moog" to be first, as it it is alphabetically before the PF album name, and by Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze, which is alphabetically before Pink Floyd.
Lots of other variations of dark side of the moon in album titles, but then some weird hits. "No Album" by "Various Artists", and if I click on that album, I get all songs that have no album tag (2378 songs), so if there is a match in there, I'll struggle to find it. I think it's good when returning list of matching songs.This is where I find the new search fails for me. It's full text search, but getting a list of results by album where songs match isnt' always helpful. Gary Moore - Legacy was one hit. I think because "dar" is in a song title (Dark Days In Paradise), and "si" is the start of another track "Since I Met You Baby". "moo" hit Gary Moore. I don't think any one track matched, it found two words on different songs of the album, so the album matched due to its contents. The idea is that searching for an artist, album or song title should appear nearer the top of the results, followed by lots of other potential hits. So it can be useful if you know what you want you can be short and cryptic to find that hit, but it can also find something unexpected. e.g. I searched for "moog schulze" to find Dark Side of the Moog by Klaus Schulze, but it also finds Back to the Universe Vol 1 by Various Artists, because Klaus Schulze is a contributor to one track, and Moog appears in the title of another track. If you want exact matches to a title (so you can find and play only songs containing a search term in the title), use advanced search. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
