Re: Searching

Hello,

Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 8:26:09 PM, [email protected] wrote:

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

Yes, the address was right :)

> Regarding linked entries...

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>> 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.

The idea is to have the data fields only saved once! I.e. such a
linked entry would have the track offsets and then just a link field,
that tells to which other entry it's linked to - but none of the data
fields. This way we can get exact matches for all the variations of
the entry, but will always have one (hopefully) correct set of data
fields in the master entry. Therefore there are not really entries
that weren't returned any longer.
The idea is good, I think - only question is, if it is possible to put
this into code and who will do it. This probably requires rewrite of
major parts of the server software.

- Joerg