[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]

Ok, can you just put it back to how it was then please

thanks Paul

Robert Kaye wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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%.
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> 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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