azinck3;194431 Wrote: 
> Interesting, I've never really thought twice about the search.  Whatever
> I'm searching for is typically right there near the top (first 5-20
> entries).  I wonder if the relative popularity of the group dictates
> search results and you only have trouble if you're looking for more
> obscure artists.
> 
> A real limitation of the method suggested on this thread is that you
> wouldn't be able to find artists very well if you can only remember
> their last name or part of the band name.


The relevancy search does not necessarily serve you well in this regard
either. For example, if you wanted to find "Carol King" but only
remembered her last name, searching for "king" puts her in about 275th
place. If you remembered only her first name you'd find her in 114th
place. Even if you enter "Carol K" she come in at 111.

I don't see how "relevancy" is ever useful for these types of searches.
What you would want is a keyword or key-string search by artist, track
or album. It seems that Rhapsody only offers a keyword search across
all of these however, without filtering.

Obviously this is a Rhapsody issue, and to me appears to be an error in
judgement on how users search for music and the best way to handle
search results.


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