[slim] Re: Search bug?
JJZolx;144158 Wrote: > Treble, again, the basic search is a simple search for a text string. > It's _not_ a search for an artist, so it won't read your mind and pull > up the tracks for the artists matched by the string. Use the Advanced > search to do that. Maybe I am a little dense, but if the simple search is searching for text strings in the TITLE, ARTIST and ALBUM fields, why doesn't it find all tracks by an artist then? Isn't the artist just a text string in the ARTIST field? Example: SONG TITLE:Pata Pata ALBUM: Putumayo Presents The Best Of World Music, Vol. 1: World Vocal ARTIST: Miriam Makeba If I search for "Makebe" this song doesn't show up, but searching for "Pata" it does... -- treble treble's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2797 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Search bug?
ceejay;143975 Wrote:
> Interesting, thats not the behaviour I'm seeing. If I search on Elton
> John I get to a list of albums, which includes both the sole-artist
> albums and the compilation albums on which he appears.
>
> Which I think is the behaviour you want?
>
> So, which version of slimserver are you using? What settings do you
> have for compilation albums?
>
> You might want to try upgrading to 6.5.1 nightly and rescanning as
> there have been some changes...
Ceejay, are you sure you're talking about the _basic_ search ('Search
Music') and not the advanced search? The Advanced Search works like
this if you search for an artist. The basic search does not, nor is it
designed to.
Treble, again, the basic search is a simple search for a text string.
It's _not_ a search for an artist, so it won't read your mind and pull
up the tracks for the artists matched by the string. Use the Advanced
search to do that.
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JJZolx
Jim
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[slim] Re: Search bug?
Well, I'm using a 6.5.1 nightly from a few nights ago, you might need to give it a try? Copy your current slimserver directory so you can roll back easily if you find it creates more problems than it solves... Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Search bug?
Hi Ceejay, Yes, that's the behavior I would like :-) I am using the following version: VERSION INFO SlimServer Version: 6.5.0 - 9916 - Windows 2000 - EN - cp1252 Server IP address: 192.168.168.210 Perl Version: 5.8.7 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread MySQL Version: 5.0.22-community-nt My compilations settings are as follows: List compilation albums under each artist List albums by all artists for that album I have been thinking about upgrading to 6.5.1, but I am reading to many problems with MusicMagic integration. MusicMagic (MusicIP mixer) works ok for me on 6.5.0 (except for sometimes getting empty playlists because of probably accented characters in filename, but that's another thread...) Thanks! -- treble treble's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2797 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Search bug?
treble;143951 Wrote: > Maybe I wasn't totally clear. > > When I search for Makeba it doesn't show all songs performed by her > (where she is the artist) on Various Artist albums, like these two: > > 4. Pata Pata from Putumayo Presents The Best Of World Music, Vol. 1: > World Vocal by Miriam Makeba > 1. Pata Pata 2000 from New World Party by Miriam Makeba > > So it seems that normal search only picks up those albums where Makeba > is the sole artist. To confirm this when I search for an artist who is > only present on a Various Artist album, the search doesn't return > anything. However, using Advanced Search does find the song... I am > not sure why this should be intended behavior. Don't you want to find > 'all' songs by an artist when you search for it? Interesting, thats not the behaviour I'm seeing. If I search on Elton John I get to a list of albums, which includes both the sole-artist albums and the compilation albums on which he appears. Which I think is the behaviour you want? So, which version of slimserver are you using? What settings do you have for compilation albums? You might want to try upgrading to 6.5.1 nightly and rescanning as there have been some changes... HTH Ceejay -- ceejay ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Search bug?
Maybe I wasn't totally clear. When I search for Makeba it doesn't show all songs performed by her (where she is the artist) on Various Artist albums, like these two: 4. Pata Pata from Putumayo Presents The Best Of World Music, Vol. 1: World Vocal by Miriam Makeba 1. Pata Pata 2000 from New World Party by Miriam Makeba So it seems that normal search only picks up those albums where Makeba is the sole artist. To confirm this when I search for an artist who is only present on a Various Artist album, the search doesn't return anything. However, using Advanced Search does find the song... I am not sure why this should be intended behavior. Don't you want to find 'all' songs by an artist when you search for it? -- treble treble's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2797 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Search bug?
On 10/2/06, Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: treble wrote:> Of course it's a bug... if I search for an artist and don't get all> songs by that artist it's wrong.How do you define "all the songs" by an artist?All the songs the artist wrote? Played on? Were released by a group that the musician was in, even if he didn't play/sing on the particular song?All the versions of his song covered by other groups?When you search for Paul McCartney, do you want only his solo albumsongs? Include The Beatles? Wings? How about the Traveling Wilburys? What is a Bob Dylan song?Does it include Robert Zimmerman's songs?--Pathttp://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html that seems kinda disingenuous, given that the information relies on the tag library, and the tag library is pretty minimal for most users. I agree that the functionality is fine as it is, but treble's problem can be summed up more precisely with "Slimserver doesn't act like iTunes". He's wanting it to show him a list of songs, then filter that list down when he types an artist into the search box. -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Search bug?
treble wrote: Of course it's a bug... if I search for an artist and don't get all songs by that artist it's wrong. How do you define "all the songs" by an artist? All the songs the artist wrote? Played on? Were released by a group that the musician was in, even if he didn't play/sing on the particular song? All the versions of his song covered by other groups? When you search for Paul McCartney, do you want only his solo album songs? Include The Beatles? Wings? How about the Traveling Wilburys? What is a Bob Dylan song? Does it include Robert Zimmerman's songs? -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Search bug?
On 10/2/06, treble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course it's a bug... if I search for an artist and don't get allsongs by that artist it's wrong. I would hate the behavior you describe. It gives you the artist, which you can click and then you have all albums by that artist. That's a much more useful search behavior.Ben ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Search bug?
treble wrote: > Of course it's a bug... if I search for an artist and don't get all > songs by that artist it's wrong. Read carefully what you're saying. You're searching for an artist, not for songs by that artist. As you've already discovered, you need to use advanced search for that. However, once you've found your artist, clicking on the artist name shuold show all albums by that artist which does not seem to be happening in your case. R. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Search bug?
Of course it's a bug... if I search for an artist and don't get all songs by that artist it's wrong. -- treble treble's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2797 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Search bug?
treble;141383 Wrote: > Not all songs show up when I do a search for an artist. Only doing an > Advanced Search will show them. However, looking for a title reports > all songs... Doesn't look like a bug to me. The way the basic search works is that it searches for the string within an artist, album, or track name. So if you do a basic search for 'makeba' it will show you any artist, album or track containing the string 'makeba'. It won't show you all the albums and tracks recorded by the artist with that name. (Note: there's a server setting for the search behavior to either search the beginnig or _within_ words - I'd recommend setting it to search within for more complete results. See: Server Settings > Behavior > Search Within Words) -- JJZolx Jim JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28102 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
