Indexed Search Syntax: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:23, 25 February 2006

Status: Currently under development. Please help copy and adapt the lucene query syntax docs to our needs!

While we contruct this help page, please see the lucene query syntax page for details on how to construct MusicBrainz text search queries.

The artist index contains the following fields you can search:

field	Description
arid	artist id
artist	artist name
sortname	artist sortname
artype	artist type (0 - unknown, 1 - person, 2 - band)
begin	artist birth date/band founding date
end	artist death date/band dissoluion date
comment	artist comment to differentiate similar artists
alias	the aliases/misspellings for this artist

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 While we contruct this help page, please see the [http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html lucene query syntax] page for details on how to construct [[MusicBrainz]] [http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html text search] queries.
+==MusicBrainz specific search fields==
+The artist index contains the following fields you can search:
+{| border="1"
+|-
+|  '''field'''  ||  '''Description'''
+|-
+|  arid  ||  artist id
+|-
+|  artist  ||  artist name
+|-
+|  sortname  ||  artist sortname
+|-
+|  artype  ||  artist type (0 - unknown, 1 - person, 2 - band)
+|-
+|  begin  ||  artist birth date/band founding date
+|-
+|  end  ||  artist death date/band dissoluion date
+|-
+|  comment  ||  artist comment to differentiate similar artists
+|-
+|  alias  ||  the aliases/misspellings for this artist
+|}
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