sstatman;195477 Wrote: > Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this. > > So, first, a general comment on search. I don't much like our search > either, right now. Mostly, however, it has to do with the poor > relevancy than with the partial word searching that you guys are > commenting on. > > However, I do have something that might work better. There are, in > fact, some searches beyond the ones Andy listed (he may just have an > older WSDL), and they may give you just what you want : > > fastFindArtists(prefix, start, count) > fastFindAlbums(prefix, start, count) > fastFindTracks(prefix, start, count) > > These will give you the artists/albums/tracks that start with the > passed in prefix. We haven't performance tested them, but in theory > they're quite fast after the engine has warmed up. (Start and count > provide an offset mechanism for scrolling through long lists, so you > don't grab all the tracks starting with "P", but just the first 10.) > > This might address the Carole King issue. > > We also have a new search coming out quite soon that does a much better > job with relevance; "carol" will find "Carole King" far more > effectively. However, it still won't do partial word searches ... > that's pretty hard to get right, not even Google manages it. (Try > searching for "carol k" or "carol k singer" on Google, and you'll see > what I mean.)
Hello and thanks for responding to the thread. If the three searches that you listed are made available on SN than they might be the appropriate types of searches needed. I suppose than that it is just a matter of it being implemented by SD? I am curious about your references to relevancy and Google type searches, as I'm not seeing the connection between web searching and finding a song or artist in Rhapsody's database. Have you guys at Rhapsody concluded or seen data showing that users are searching or want to search for music in this way? As I am reasoning it, a Google relevancy type search would almost always be inferior and less desireable to a string search for this purpose. Perhaps you guys see it different for some reason, and out of curiousity I'd welcome being enlightened as to the rationale of it. -- Hamlet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hamlet's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34386 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
