So it sounds like most of the failures are either limitations of Amazon's database, errors in my tagging, or just my plain obscure taste in some cases. Apart from the short name problem, it sounds like your script worked as advertised - most excellent.
Thanks for checking this for me, I'll have to go round and collect the information manually. Thanks, Mark. On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:49 -0600, Victor Brilon wrote: > Mark Bennett wrote: > > As another data point, I'm using exclusively FLAC files, > > and I think it worked pretty well. > > Good to hear. Thanks for letting me know. > > > There's some very strange matching, and some obvious matches > > I would expect to find that it didn't. Haven't had time to > > try to analyse why yet. > > Most of these that don't match are because the title and artist combo > are too short to make an exact match. The algorithm needs tweaking to > get that piece right but I just haven't had time to mess with it. > > Easiest way to check this out is to do a search on Amazon with the query > string of "Artist Title" in the Music section. You'll see for example > the fact that the first result for the Thin Lizzy album actually has no > cover art and nether does the Satellites album. And the All About Eve > album had no exact matches. > > > > The oddest match is: > > > > Genesis (live) was matched as Foxtrot > > (Both albums by Genesis) > > > > The failed matches I'm surprised at are: > > > > Artist Album > > ----------------------------- > > Heart Heart > > Whitesnake 1987 > > Derek and the Dominoes Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs > > The Georgia Satellites Open All Night > > Thin Lizzy Black Rose > > Thin Lizzy Renegade > > Rush Rush > > All About Eve Touched By Jesus > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > > -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
