If I click on MORE (artists) I get a list of 80 artists, all of whom share the same first name of Ben. Ren is nowhere to be found. However, if I search for Renn (a deliberate misspelling) he’s right at the top of the list.
I appreciated that Roon is probably trying to take account of typos - “surely he means Ben, not Ren” - but that doesn’t explain why he isn’t found unless I misspell his name.
The inconsistencies are so very weird. I just tried, the only somewhat strange result is the second-to-last tag, but it does contain only one album, which is Random Access Memories (and I have been noticing lately that sometimes Roon is now trying to do a bit fuzzy search)
In your case yes, but in my case showing one results that starts with Ran (that I have in my library / tagged) when starting to type Ren is exactly what I’d expect fuzzy search to do. (I’m not generally a fan of fuzzy search because I can type, but people want it)
But without kidding, recently I had the odd typo where I am quite sure that a few months ago I would have got nothing and now it had some reasonable fuzzy results
But like I said, I am not much into fuzzy search and don’t know why on Google I have to keep double-quoting things just because other people can’t type. Just give me what I say, I know how to write it
It’s Roon, its logic never makes sense. I really feel they are just overcomplicating search. It used to work far better until they started meddling with it. It had its issues before but never this bad. Feels like CDN issues not syncing something.
And when I enter now enter Ren into the search box, just a couple of hours after my first attempt, I get quite different results. Nothing in my library has changed, so why have the results?
Four calendar cafe works
Four calender cafe does not work
I have only just noticed that, at long last, Roon Search is allowing for some obvious typos (it always seemed to want exact spellings)
So whilst “songs for big chair” and “songs from the bog chair” produce tears for fears “songs from the big chair” album at top of the list the search doesn’t recognise the common miss-spelling of calender at least in this context.
Still from my perspective this is still way better than I have seen before . How long has search been dealing with at least some typos?
I don’t know how long but like I wrote above I’ve noticed it as well. Gut feeling is a month or two but hard to say as I don’t search so much, don’t typo much, and it’s probably changing gradually I’d guess
Thanks for that @Suedkiez - weird that Roon has not announced anything(or at least not that I have spotted)
I know people’s views on this will vary but I personally am glad that at least some typo error is dealt with now
That would be the first place to look if it were up to me .
Or, as @Suedkiezimplies, some sort of anomaly with the SQL; for instance, some error in the way a command like upper - perhaps when combined with trim - has been implemented…?
They explained in the long-running search improvement thread a year or more ago that generally there’s a lot of work going on for search improvements, and people on the forum have been asking since then why so little is changing or getting worse. I guess maybe it’s just a lot of work to do. And as it’s all in the cloud I think they are going to make incremental changes, experiment with this and that, without necessarily making big announcements about everything.
I get same as you. But I imagine some expect Zappa to be ahead of the other choices it’s put before him that don’t match Frank z. Mines in a different order and added some you don’t have .
