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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002335 | MMW v4 | Playlist / Search | public | 2006-01-24 20:37 | 2006-03-12 22:40 |
| Reporter | jiri | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0002335: AND and OR operations for Quick-search | ||||
| Description | As reported e.g. in http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7727, users would expect normally words to be ORed, and be ANDed only if in quotes. I think we could modify it this way. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 962 | ||||
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Assigning to Rusty for review. |
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I agree that it should work differently than it does now, but keywords should_be_ANDed The only problem with our current implementation is that Sara MacLachlan is treated as "Sarah MacLachlan" instead of Sarah AND MacLachlan. i.e. a <space> should be treated as an AND. If we do this, then we should also have a way of searching for an exact phrase as we do today. Enclosing the search term in quotes would be a good way of doing this. So to be a bit more concrete about this, the current behaviour (as described by bex) is: Artist: Sarah McLachlan Title: Into the Fire (Extended Remix) Search text (all text fields): Works to find the song: - Sarah (Any text field that contains 'sarah') - McLachlan - Sarah McLachlan - Sarah M - arah McLachlan - rah McL - Into the - Into the Fire - Fire - re (Extende Does not work to find the song: - McLachlan Sarah (Any text field that contains 'McLachlan Sarah') - Lachlan Sar - Fire into - Into (Extended Remix) - Sarah McLachlan Into the Fire - Sarah into - Sarah Fire Keyword search Separate your keywords with a ; like this: (; works as or) - McLachlan;Sarah (Any text field that contains 'McLachlan' or any text field that contains 'Sarah') - Lachlan;Sar - Fire;into - Into;(Extended Remix) - Sarah McLachlan;Into the Fire - Sarah;into - Sarah;Fire The changes that should result are that: 1) The following searches would return expected tracks: - McLachlan Sarah (Any text field that contains 'McLachlan Sarah') - Lachlan Sar - Fire into - Into (Extended Remix) - Sarah McLachlan Into the Fire - Sarah into - Sarah Fire 2) Keyword searches such as those described below would not be required Separate your keywords with a ; like this: (; works as or) - McLachlan;Sarah (Any text field that contains 'McLachlan' or any text field that contains 'Sarah') - Lachlan;Sar - Fire;into - Into;(Extended Remix) - Sarah McLachlan;Into the Fire - Sarah;into - Sarah;Fire 3) Search for Sarah MacLachlan would return: Artist=Sarah MacLachlan Title=Adia and would also return Artist=Sara Kramer Title=The McLachlan Track Search for "Sarah MacLachlan" (in quotes) would return: Artist=Sarah MacLachlan Title=Adia but would_not return Artist=Sara Kramer Title=The McLachlan Track |
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Assigned to Ludek to implement as suggested above (sure I meant to AND all terms, OR was wrong). I.e.: 1. A space between words will mean AND operator. 2. Quotes or doble quotes (' or ") will mean to use the exact phrase. 3. ';' could be possibly used as OR operator. |
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Improved basic searching in build 962: I.e.: 1. A space between words indicates AND operator. 2. Quotes or doble quotes (' or ") indicate the exact phrase. 3. ';' indicate OR operator with higher priority. => the searched term is in desjunctive normal (logic) form. xxx yyy;zzz <=> (xxx AND yyy) OR (zzz) |
