chaban
March 16, 2020, 5:21pm
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The way the search handles (not) catalog numbers is completely bonkers.
I’ve tried to find https://musicbrainz.org/release/1fefe012-e227-4071-8486-79c73ab88d1c only by its catalog number: COCC-13058
Indexed release search:
COCC-13058 (no results)
COCC13058 (no results)
*13058 (no results)
COCC*3058 (returns a bunch of stuff but nothing remotely I was looking for)
Did I miss any combination or is the index broken for some entries?
Indexed release search with advanced query synax:
catno:COCC-13058 (exact match)
catno:COCC13058 (exact match)
catno:*13058 (multiple results including what I was looking for, though it’s the last one)
catno:COCC*3058 (exact match)
If I was a new user trying to contribute I certainly wouldn’t expect the default search to be that unreliable.
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The default search, AFAIK, doesn’t take catnos into account at all , it’s searching for them as part of the title.
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hiccup
March 16, 2020, 5:41pm
23
Talking about making it easier to find stuff:
Perhaps a mod could correct the misspelling of ‘catalogue’ that I made in the topic title some two years ago?
(It seems I am not allowed to do that myself)
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chaban
March 16, 2020, 5:44pm
24
Great.
Some tickets about punctuation in catalog number:
MBS-6502 Catalog number search breaks with spaces and separators Type: Bug
Priority: Normal
SEARCH-479 Regression: Release catnos not being found with hyphen and wildcard Type: Bug
Priority: Normal
GEORDI-11 Add a way to search MB with label + catno Type: New Feature
Priority: Normal
The example for SEARCH-34 provided by Paul Taylor no longer(?) works:
And as much as I personally like MBS-6740 , it’s not a proper solution either. As argued by nikki, ordinary users won’t bother with advanced query syntax.
Done.
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Funny we were talking about Search Bugs together only the other day. Now you have read this thread you can understand my response at the time.
MB search is just plain weird.