I am attempting to formulate a query that finds song length by a specific artist. I am getting incorrect results for both fields. There are 54 hits with neither of the criteria. Also, I am getting hits for 2 0r 3-second sound samples.
dur:184000 AND artist:“Led Zeppelin”
Hi! Make sure you are using the “Indexed search with advanced query syntax” and not “Indexed search”
One small improvement could be if you want to have also results near the given length is to use the qdur (quantized duration) parameter which expects duration / 2000 (half the duration in seconds).
This will give you results near the queried duration (I’m not entirely sure, but I think +/- 2 seconds). So instead of dur:184000 you could use qdur:92 which gives more results:
Thanks. I had wanted exact durations, but also want to narrow it to studio albums only.