Please explain search

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I was looking for some tunes this morning and noticed this. Maybe someone can explain this to me.

I searched for “Think of One,” an early Monk tune (also the name of Wynton’s first album). I started on Tidal and got 10 “track” results:

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Doing the same search in Roon, then clicking on “Tidal Tracks”, gives me 34 results, many of which just have random words in common from all fields: “The Coming of the One” by “Think Pink” from the album “Twink”, for example. (Q. 1: How do I limit to exact matches? Putting the phrase in quotes doesn’t help. Q. 2: What order are these in? It isn’t obvious. Can I reorder so that exact matches are all at the top of the list?) If I look at the exact title matches, I count 11 in Roon (as opposed to Tidal’s 10). The results are quite different–for example, in Roon there’s a track “Think of One” by Kris Gears from an album of the same title; Tidal doesn’t include that one. There are several other examples of tracks Tidal lists but not Roon, or that Roon lists but not Tidal–even though I am now looking at Tidl tracks. In particular, Roon lists NO (Track) versions with Thelonious Monk, who wrote the tune. (There is however a “composition” credited to Monk, but the link goes to the track by Wynton Marsalis, from the album of the same name.

Can someone help me make sense of this?

Thanks.

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Funny, I was just marveling at the intelligent soft search when I searched for “Don’t think twice, it’s all right” and it also found “Don’t think twice, it’s alright”.

I have found several such examples of different spelling of covers.
Soft search is very important.

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Hi Jim,

I’m not aware of how the Roon guys programmed the search feature, however, when I do a search for common words, I like to add more key words to the search.

In your example, Think of One, those are really common words. So, I would add Monk to it.

Try searching Think of One Monk and see if that helps.

Cheers, Greg

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Thanks Greg, I’ll try that.