Search Results for Tracks by Artist not working well

[eweaver]

We are using JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET nuget package in our Smartspeaker product. It works great but we often get poor results with certain Spotify searches. Here's the latest example.

A voice search like "Play songs by the Who" triggers a Spotify Search on the term "The Who" that returns results for Albums, Artists, Tracks, and Playlists. The Artist results have "The Who" as the first item in the Artists like (GOOD), Who Albums in the Albums list (GOOD) but the Tracks list contains some Who songs and then other songs with "Who" or "Whom" or "The Whole" in the title. So the Track results are not good.

If I take the top Artist in the results which is accurate and I then call GetArtistsTopTracks, I only get 10 tracks returned which isn't enough plus it seems like it is the same 10 tracks every time.

1. Ideally, the GetArtistsTopTracks would return the maximum 50 results like the other calls
2. The other possible solution is to specify an Artist ID in the Search call to filter on only that Artist.

Any other ideas?

[Hubo]

Hey @eweaver, thanks for joining the conversation on the Spotify Community!

Hmm, you might be able to use search operators in your Search request. This could be the query parameter for this scenario: 

artist:"The Who"

 Let me know if that helps you get on!

Have a great day,

Hubo