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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001733 | MMW v4 | Properties/Auto-Tools | public | 2005-01-07 13:30 | 2007-02-09 20:07 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | reopened | ||
| Summary | 0001733: Auto-Tag from Amazon: Search results are poor in several cases | ||||
| Description | Over the course of testing this, I've found that the algorithm might use a bit of improvement for several cases: 1) For Various artists albums & Soundtracks, often fails to find the album, especially when it's classical music. e.g. for Album=chocolat, it doesn't even show the album in the list of potential album matches. 2) If the Album Field is missing, then the search results are often strange (e.g. for Artist=Air, tons of entries come up, most of them having nothing to do with Artist=Air, Yet doing the same search on Amazon shows relevant results) Maybe something along the following lines would improve the results: If Album & Artist Exist: Search for both --If no Album Match found, search classical ----If no Album Match found, search for track If Only Artist exists: Search for Artist ---If no Artist Match found, search for composer If Only Album exists: Search for Album --If no Album match found, search classical ----If no Album match found, search for track | ||||
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| Fixed in build | 948 | ||||
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2) was fixed in build 946. There's still some place for improvements re. other issues, but it needs more complex fixes. |
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fyi: I tested this with Artist=Air (no other metadata), and the search results are still fairly poor (i.e. Artist=Air is buried after ~20 other entries, whereas a search on Amazon directly shows albums where Artist=Air among the first 3 entries). |
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Fixed in build 947. - Added some more improvemets. |
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I found out that I had forgotten some debugging code there. |
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Fixed in build 948. - Reverted a wrong code that caused bad search performance. |
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Verified in 948. Improvements for search on Artist is working better for 2.5.2, as are the rankings of options that result. Re-opening as urgent for a future build to improve on the remaining issues described in the bug. |
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Re. item 1): one thing that really bothers me though is when im autotagging files from Amazon, any titles that have " - " in it for example "Darksides - Nugen" where one might be the artist for the particular song and the other would be the title of the song or visa versa. when you tag the files, anything that has a dash in the title the rest of it is carried into the artist column so in this case, this track would be named "Darksides" for the title and "Nugen" for the artist. this is kinda annoying to me and i would much rather have the name of the artist come from the album (the title overrides the artist tag from the album) any help would be appreciated. im using the latest mediamonkey program as of this date (2.5.1.934) |
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Another item that a couple of users have complained about is the fact that if they manually enter new search terms (to override the search by MM) then the result set is very poor. In such cases, would it make more sense to search only on the terms entered by the user? (or is that already what we do?). |
