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To take full advantage of this lyrics search engine you should combine the three different input fields with information you know of a song.
For example if you are looking for the song Hung Up by Madonna, but you don't remember the name of the song...
Instead of just searching for Madonna and look through all the results, you should supply the search engine with words you remember to be in the song. Maybe you remember the words Time goes by so slowly, by combining this with the name of the artist you will more quickly find the song you're looking for: Madonna - Time goes by so slowly.
The Fulltext field
- Ordering of results
If you put text in the Fulltext field, the results are sorted by how relevant the lyrics are according to your search.
Result #1 is more relevant than result #2, etc.
Looking at the results of a search for Jupiter Mars Moon Stars demonstrates this.
- Combining Fulltext with Artist name and/or Song name
Adding text to the Artist name and/or Song name fields when using the Fulltext field doesn't affect the ordering of the results,
but may be used to further narrow your search.
A fulltext search for Music VS. Madonna - Music shows this.
- Including words like "you", "we", "I", "The" etc. in the Fulltext field will not narrow or improve the results.
To have success with the fulltext field,
you should simply write as many descriptive words you remember from the song.
To demonstrate the importance of this matter you should check the results of the following three searches:
Search 1: We You I (0 results because all the words are found "not descriptive enough" by the search engine).
Search 2: Peace Love (Many Results because the words are descriptive).
Search 3: Peace Love We You I (the exact same results as in Search 2, because the words "We You I" are removed from the search as explained above).
Non-descriptive words like "I",
"the",
"we" etc.
are very common, and appear in almost all the lyrics.
To speed up the results for the fulltext search we ignore words that are very common.
Therefore, a fulltext search for love will return the same result as a fulltext search for love me.
The Artist name and Song name fields
- Making suggestions when no matches are found
When using the artist name or song name fields the search engine makes (spelling) suggestions for you if no matches are found. An example of this is if you mean to search for Michael Jackson, but don't remember how his name is spelled, so you type Mikkel Jakksonn instead. You will then find one or more suggestions at the results page.
- All descriptive and nondescriptive words are included
In the artist name and song name fields you can use any words you like, they are all included in the search.
Try a song name search for "the" as an example.
- Sorted by most relevant
If you search using only the artist name and/or song name fields,
the results are sorted by the most relevant artist and song.
Artist search for Green,
and song search for love are examples of this.
- The order of the words you type will not affect the results.
You don't have to type the words in the same order as they appear in the artist- or song-name.
The words you type can be positioned anywhere in the name, at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the name.
The search 50 Cent will return the same reults as the search Cent 50.
Generally, for all three fields
- All words you type in the artist- and song-name fields are included
The search engine will look for lyrics including all the words you supply.
If you get very many results, you should add more descriptive words to your search.
On the other hand, if you get few results, you should write less words in your search.
- CaSE INseNsItIVe
All three fields are case-insensitive, meaning it doesn't matter wether you use upper case letters (LONELY), lower case letters (lonely) or a mixture (lONelY).
- search.mp3lyrics.org does not yet support "phrase" searches. This is high on the todo list together with better ranking of lyrics when using the fulltext field.
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