Re: Strange behaviour searching with ['songs', ] via jsonrpc

I also see this behaviour with the ['albums', ] query. With 'search:
xxx' as parameter, the results will depend on whether xxx contains
whitespace or not. No whitespace in xxx means only the album tag is
searched whereas with whitespace the match can occur in any tag.

Example. I have 20 albums by Chicane in my local LMS library. I perform
['albums', 0, 250, 'search: chicane',  'tags:Aalyj']. There are only 3
results returned and not 20 ("Chicane pres. 'Visions of Ibiza'", The
Best of Chicane (1996-2008)", and "Ultimate Dance (Mixed by Chicane)"
all of which are matching because the search term is in the ALBUM tag.

I have 12 albums by Steve Winwood.  I perform ['albums', 0, 250,
'search: steve winwood',  'tags:Aalyj']. All 12 are returned. The only
one that has Steve Winwood in the ALBUM tag is  "Revolutions: The Very
Best of Steve Winwood". Yet all the others match in the ARTIST tag and
are returned.

The question is: Why does the search behave differently depending on the
number of words in the seach term (i.e. whitespace or not)?

FYI the same happens with *any* artist with a single word name like
Madonna, Sting, U2, Rihanna, Cher, Dido, INXS so it's not just this one
isolated case.


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