[mb-devel] Is there any more info on the ext:rating returned by the xmlwebservice when you sort for tracks without a Puid

[Paul Taylor]

Robert Kaye wrote:
>
> This is the beauty of Lucene -- it doesn't just do exact searches. It 
> does stemming and similar searches in an effort to find you relevant 
> results.
>
Thanks Robert I will spend some time researching Lucene, but my gut 
reaction is still the scoring is weighted a bit high, if the parameters 
do not match exactly (except for case , and punctuation possibly) it 
seems wierd for it to return 100%.

Here is one more example:
The track to be matched comes from a Christmas Album, unfortunately the 
track number and title are completely wrong
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/track?type=xml&title=Track+11&duration=187000&artist=Disk+2&release=Christmas+Album&tracknum=11&limit=10

The top result (which is an invalid match) is the following, it has 
unfortunately matched on the title exactly and partially on the release, 
so I can see why it has come up but the artist name does not match at 
all so Im suprised it returns a score oas high as 96%.


<track id="72ade389-6855-4523-9296-342cf0516e00" ext:score="96">
<title>Track 11</title>
<artist id="e748377f-0ed1-4cc9-81e5-aa5e210098b4">
<name>Kidz With Toyz</name>
</artist>
<release-list>
<release id="820c62a7-bccb-4e1d-8356-a5c3c006caef">
<title>Demo Album</title>
<track-list offset="10"/>
</release>
</release-list>
</track>


thanks paul