Limited search results

[marcus]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 06:20, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> I expected most people to search by title, wanting to
> add something they already knew they had, rather than needed to get
> all 100 movies that Christopher Lee has been in. :)

For my movie DB searching by person, usually director, is THE great 
advantage Tellico has over all other similar software. It's the main 
selling point for me **.

How else do you add many titles by one person ? The only way is to use 
IMDB and then type each title one by one. I have several hundred titles 
and this was the reason I have been put off creating a desktop DB for 
several years. Tellico's person search has changed that in my 
favour :-)

It's quite normal, as Josep mentioned, to have a music collection of one 
artist who has made many albums. So also for people like Bob Dylan or 
Frank Zappa, you are going to need more than 10 or even 40 results.
Especially in music some artists have quite an output.

> Some of the data sources don't support continuation. I know most
> z39.50 servers, for instance, have a max number of results,
> server-side.

The possibly simplest way(?), is to retrieve all results and cache them 
in a temp file. Then just walk the file in the increment the user 
wants.

One feature to consider would be removing duplicates. I changed my 
search results for IMDB to 100, and you get duplicates in some cases 
(e.g. the Woody Allen example again, he seems good for testing 
purposes).


Marcus


** As it happens I also like Tellico better than any of the others from 
the perspective of layout, ease of use, extendability, and the fact 
that Robby maintains it well.