Lucene scoring not accurate

[chirlu]

Here are some earlier topics regarding Lucene scoring:

The most Genesis Genesis

Just wondering why Genesis (the long-running prog band) only rate 98 on the search index for “Genesis”, including being less Genesisy than the “guest vocalist on Beaupierre album” with one credit…? https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Genesis&type=artist&method=indexed

More information on the "Score" attribute in the search of musicbrainz

Hello, I don’t know if this is the right place to ask this… but ill take a chance. I would like to know more about how the Scoring system works in the musicbrainz search system. I would need that in order to be able to organize my own searches using the database queries directly. After setting up the database and the server, when I am querying the DB for an artist, for example “Michael Jackson”, I get 4 results, but no specific order. I would like the most “popular” to be presented first, or…

Definition of Score in Search results

Search results for an artist shows a “score” in the first column. Is there some information somewhere about how this is calculated? Searching for “Bob Marley” results in Bob Marley the comedian getting a score of 100 whereas the much more well known Bob Marley the Jamaican reggae artist gets a score of 99. Not very different, I agree, but I am writing an app that makes use of the score and it would help to know how it is calculated so that I interpret the data in an appropriate way.

Help needed find albums using "XML Web Service / Version 2 / Search"

Hello community, I’m from germany and new to musicbrainz. I try to automatical update my music library with complete MP3-TAGs and cover art. Most of my MP3 files only have the artist and the track in its filename. Thus I extract this and try to find the related album with musicbrainz XML web service. I selected a file as my example. With this example my problem is, that I can’t find the related album. Instead there are a lot of compilations and a single-version of it. My example is: “Cutti…