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

[Robert Kaye]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Paul Taylor wrote:
> 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%.

I can't do anything about the scoring -- if you don't like the  
scoring, either ignore it or do your own scoring.

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