Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 2008/11

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Organizing your music library.
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:06:21 -0500

Roger Hewitt wrote:
> Some of the problems with a straightforward alphabetical title list include:
> 1. Exclude articles; i.e. file as "A Winters Tale" or "Winters Tale, A". A good idea, but most lists only do it for A and The, but not La and El, etc.? Is it Arlesienne, L' or L'Arlesienne?
That's why full-text search is so valuable. You can sort/index any way
you want, but full-text searching is the way to retrieve things by words
or parts of words. I use swish-e to index near a half million postings
and articles on woodwind.org, and retrieval takes generally less that
1/10th of a second. It's a traditional space/speed tradeoff (the indexes
are huge) - but disk has become cheap.

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