Trying to understand search query syntax

shinyford — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:23:28 GMT

Hi - I'm trying to get my head round search query syntax.

I want to find a specific album by a specific artist: let's say Turbulent Indigo by Joni Mitchell.

I user the following url:

```

/search?q=artist:"joni%20mitchell"%20album:"turbulent%20indigo"&type=album

```

However, the result set is large, and the actual album Turbulent Indigo by Joni is way down the list (TBH I've paged several times and not found it yet).

So my question is: what am I doing wrong? How do I constrain this to a single (or few) result(s), that contain the correct album? I mean, I know the album title and the artist: there really only should be one that matches.

Many thanks!

Nic

PS I've seen queries start with "remaster" a few times, but can find no explanation. What's that for? Many thanks.

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