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#7729 - 24/02/2000 18:03 Title search...
JKcap
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Registered: 11/10/1999
Posts: 25
Did any one else notice if you have acurate cout of songs in the title search options? I know I currently have about 1700 songs, and when I do a search by title, when you first go into it, it states only 775 matches found, shouldn't this be all songs on the empeg to start?

Thank you for any help

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#7730 - 26/02/2000 14:13 Re: Title search... [Re: JKcap]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
...I noticed this as well - as of 9a, my song count went from over 2000, to 887... At first I thought this was because of de-dupping, but i *know* I have more then 900 songs, as I don't use too many songs in multiple playlists...
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#7731 - 26/02/2000 15:36 Re: Title search... [Re: dionysus]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Mine appears to be accurate (on 9c developer).

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#7732 - 27/02/2000 11:42 Re: Title search... [Re: andy]
dionysus
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Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
Mine appears to be accurate (on 9c developer).


hmm.. let's try and narrow this down... are you guys running one hard disk or two? the count that now shows up would be right for ONE of my drives, but not if you include both...
-mark

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#7733 - 27/02/2000 13:56 Re: Title search... [Re: dionysus]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
I'm only running a single disk, so that could explain it.

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#7734 - 27/02/2000 14:23 Re: Title search... [Re: dionysus]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31577
Loc: Seattle, WA
hmm.. let's try and narrow this down... are you guys running one hard disk or two? the count that now shows up would be right for ONE of my drives, but not if you include both...

Nah, I get the same problem in 9c Consumer, and I'm only running one hard disk. When I do a title search, it says "613 Matches". When I do a Genre search, it shows over 700 entries in the "Rock" category alone. And I know I don't have any duplicate titles... even when I have a studio version and a live version of the same song, I add the word "(Live)" to the end of the song title.

I just did an export-to-CSV from Emplode and looked at it in UltraEdit. After using a macro to remove the first line and all the lines with "playlist" in them, there are 965 songs in my Empeg. So It's obviously a bug in that routine.

Wait a minute... maybe it's not a bug. Maybe we're looking at it the wrong way. The "search" function is built around the ten-key remote... being able to spell out the song title with the remote. It's a fuzzy search. For instance, pressing "2222" on the remote will call up "Abba". Well, maybe the count relates not to the total unique titles, but the totals of the fuzzy search. For instance, if you could spell out a title with the remote and it came up with three different songs matching that spec, then perhaps all three count as one hit.

Then again, I don't see how that could account for a discrepancy of 300 in my list. Or could it?


Tony Fabris
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#7735 - 27/02/2000 14:28 Re: Title search... [Re: andy]
JKcap
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Registered: 11/10/1999
Posts: 25
I am only running one ten gig disk.



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#7736 - 28/02/2000 03:24 Re: Title search... [Re: tfabris]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
In reply to:

Wait a minute... maybe it's not a bug. Maybe we're looking at it the wrong way. The "search" function is built around the ten-key remote... being able to spell out the song title with the remote. It's a fuzzy search. For instance, pressing "2222" on the remote will call up "Abba". Well, maybe the count relates not to the total unique titles, but the totals of the fuzzy search. For instance, if you could spell out a title with the remote and it came up with three different songs matching that spec, then perhaps all three count as one hit.


Even if that is the case, I don't think that was the intent of that search function, was it? Normally that's my way of telling people how many songs are on my unit, so having the number go down doesn't let me gloat anymore:)
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#7737 - 28/02/2000 03:26 Re: Title search... [Re: andy]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
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I'm only running a single disk, so that could explain it.


ok - so now I'm confused, is anyone else running 9c and seeing a "correct" title-search amount?
-mark




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#7738 - 28/02/2000 04:09 Re: Title search... [Re: dionysus]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
I'm running 9c, and checked this yesterday. It reported about 490 tracks and I know that there were over 550 tracks last time I counted them (and I've added a couple more CDs since then)

I have a 4GB single HDD...

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#7739 - 03/03/2000 23:37 Re: Title search... [Re: andy]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
Mine appears to be accurate (on 9c developer).

After following the discussion with everyone else saying their track count was wrong I decided to go back and check mine...

Sorry guys, I was wrong, the track count on mine is out by about 50%



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