iTunes Music Store MAJOR bug fixed!
Ever since the iTunes Music Store was launched, it was impossible to search for the band The The. This was the most horrible egregiously nasty bug, like, evar!
Seriously, it was a really annoying bug in that The The is a truly awesome band and, as it turns out, the iTumes Music Store actually has a good selection of their content.
This has been fixed. You can now search for The The.
Woot!
Of much lesser importance, the whole search engine has been vastly improved. Many ambiguously non-ambiquous hits are no longer ambiguous. That is, the search engine does a much better job of mapping what you typed with what you really meant.
b-52s/b52s/b fifty-twos, for example.
Or even nusratfetah alikhan, which really should be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. And iTunes correctly figured that out.
This is going to make those late night iTunes Music Store Shopping Adventures (What? I bought music at 3am on Friday evening?) all that much more dangerous….
March 10th, 2006 at 10:33 am
But when you search for “Mojo” while you want to find “Modjo” you don’t get the expected results… both are pronounced the same. But I wouldn’t consider this a bug. Just noticed that a couple of days ago and this posting reminded me of the “problem”. Sometimes you have to guess the right spelling but in general iTMS does a pretty good job when searching.