A better Rhapsody Search for us?

[Hamlet]

While I would never want to criticize Rhapsody customers, who are almost uniformly extremely good looking and intelligent, I would have to say that you overestimate the ability of people to spell things correctly.

I should have more clearly written that my estimation pertained to both one and two. But as a customer, I agree with your other judgement.

[y360]

Exposing more than one search type is too much for the slim SB3 interface.
So I would not change the existing search menus, just remap them to a call to "fast find", automatically appended with "keyword find" if "fast find" returned zero or very few results.

[azinck3]

Exposing more than one search type is too much for the slim SB3 interface.
So I would not change the existing search menus, just remap them to a call to "fast find", automatically appended with "keyword find" if "fast find" returned zero or very few results.

Maybe the "fast find" could be the preferred mechanism, but pressing the "search" button while on the search results page could toggle through the other available search results?

that is:
1) enter search term
2) fast find search results displayed
3) "hmm...I don't see what I'm looking for..."
4) press "search" button on remote
5) keyword search results displayed

pressing search again could toggle back to the original results or possibly load another set of results based on yet a different algorithm

This would be the sort of thing that the average user wouldn't find, but is handy functionality for the initiated.

[andyg]

On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:53 PM, azinck3 wrote:

>
> y360;196165 Wrote:
>> Exposing more than one search type is too much for the slim SB3
>> interface.
>> So I would not change the existing search menus, just remap them to a
>> call to "fast find", automatically appended with "keyword find" if
>> "fast find" returned zero or very few results.
>
> Maybe the "fast find" could be the preferred mechanism, but pressing
> the "search" button while on the search results page could toggle
> through the other available search results?
>
> that is:
> 1) enter search term
> 2) fast find search results displayed
> 3) "hmm...I don't see what I'm looking for..."
> 4) press "search" button on remote
> 5) keyword search results displayed

I don't really like that, not to mention it's hard to do. Maybe put
a new item at the end of the fast find results called "More results -
>" that would run the normal search?

[y360]

"more results" item would be odd if "fast find" returned 0 or very few results

[discocarp]

Call it "Broader Results" instead of "More Results". I like the idea of seeing the exact prefix matches with an option for additional results if you didn't spell it right.

I know we don't always spell everything correctly, but please assume we're at least more likely to spell it right than not...

[Hamlet]

It looks like there is no "All Tracks" submenu under Artist (only Top Tracks), is it possible that this could be added?

[andyg]

On Apr 24, 2007, at 5:09 AM, Hamlet wrote:

>
> It looks like there is no "All Tracks" submenu under Artist (only Top
> Tracks), is it possible that this could be added?

Rhapsody doesn't have a "get all tracks by an artist" method,
although there is one for "get all tracks in my library for an
artist", so this could probably be added to My Library at least.

[VinnyC]

I am trying to figure out the WSDL locations for the various services Rhapsody Direct offers. All google searches lead me to this thread.

I already have most of them, such as RhapsodyDirectMetadata, RhapsodyDirectSearch, and RhapsodyDirectLibrary.

I really would like to know the service name for pulling 'playlist central' playlists. Can anyone shed some light?

[andyg]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:12 PM, VinnyC wrote:

>
> I am trying to figure out the WSDL locations for the various services
> Rhapsody Direct offers. All google searches lead me to this thread.
>
> I already have most of them, such as RhapsodyDirectMetadata,
> RhapsodyDirectSearch, and RhapsodyDirectLibrary.
>
> I really would like to know the service name for pulling 'playlist
> central' playlists. Can anyone shed some light?

There are many playlist API calls. If you already have the WSDLs you
should know the answer to your question. I am not sure the
Rhapsody Direct WSDLs are public. You should contact Real directly
for more info.