RE: Searching

I think I got the address right this time; please tell me if I didn't.

Regarding UTF-8.  The proposal to strip down some characters sounds like
a good idea.

Regarding linked entries...

> > The "hard" ;) bit is what to do
> > about it ... let the user confirm the match, link 
> automatically if it 
> > is a
> > good match, or set some sort of certainty threshold below 
> which the user 
> > chooses? Anyway, this kind of basic database admin is a 
> slightly different 
> > problem, it just happens to be a lot easier with fulltext 
> searching...
> 
> I'd say link automatically if the match is "good enough" and 
> the track offsets are at least "fuzzy matching".

That's fine as long as there is a way for the user to get the linked
albums that weren't returned.  For instance, if the album returned by
the search contains a field that lists the albums that link to it.

Also, it should always return the same album of a linked set - ie. one
album of the set should be designated as the master in the database.  If
a user searches for and finds an album, and then searches for and finds
the same album two days later, the client software should be able to
determine that this is the same album.

I'd be happy to describe sample applications that require these
features, if anybody wants me to.

Tom.