[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:
>
> Actually that's how we designed it. But, you underscore that it works 
> differently from what people are expecting, so I reworked these queries
> with AND semantics (not OR semantics as we currently have) and things 
> work more according to what most people expect.
>
> Try your queries against the staging server and you should see a 
> drastic difference.
>
Thanks for the super quick turnaround but tested this and dont think 
solution is quite right because the change now seems to mean that if you 
pass a number of a parameters to the search and one is completely 
incorrect you wont get any match at all (for example the title and 
artist are just about correct but the album name is completely wrong  
you wont get any match.) This has in effect downgraded the use of the 
rating and is more akin to  a simple DB AND search.

I think the original OR search was correct in principle, it just that 
the score should not approach 100% unless all the parameters passed 
matched. In my last example the title and track did match, but the 
artist completely didnt match (not sure about duration) so I would 
expect a rating of approximately 70% not 96%.

(BTW, Ive only just discovered the issue tracker , I'll use that for 
future queries )

thanks Paul