pagination issue

[Paul Kendrick]

Hi there!

Love the API very useful, 

I have been having a couple of problems with the pagination function, I am searching for sound containing, for example, the string 'bird', I specify I want 50 sounds per page, In the return data I see there are 4372 results with 88 pages (makes sense 88*50=4400), however the number of pages that are returned in this first page is only 23.  So over half the detected sounds are not listed

This is the call I used;

http://www.freesound.org/api/sounds/search?sounds_per_page=50&q=bird&api_key=xxxxxxxxx

If I dont specify the number i expect there will be 30 sounds as per the default, however in the first page there are 11

http://www.freesound.org/api/sounds/search?q=bird&api_key=xxxxxxxxxx

Im not sure if this a bug or my user error.  But it seems to be not resticted to the first few pages:

http://www.freesound.org/api/sounds/search?p=18&sounds_per_page=50&q=bird&api_key=xxxxxxx

returns 43 rather than 50.

If im doing something silly, let me know!

Thanks

Paul Kendrick

[frederic font corbera]

Hello Paul,

your queries are correct and there is certainly something wrong with the search results. Looks like the problem only happens with some queries as for example if you search for the word "piano" or "loop" the problem does not happen.

I'll have a look at it and try to solve the problem as soon as possible.

Thank you for notifying this bug!

frederic

2013/1/15 Paul Kendrick <kende...@googlemail.com>

Paul Kendrick

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[frederic font corbera]

Hello again,

the problem is that our search engine is not well synced with the database, and some of the results it returns are not valid sound ids so at the end you get less than expected. We will try to fix this as soon as possible, but you won't have to change any of your code.

cheers,

frederic

2013/1/16 frederic font corbera <freder...@gmail.com>

[frederic font corbera]

Problem should be fixed now.

If you experience further bad results please report them in this list.

Thank you!

frederic 

[Paul Kendrick]

Thanks Fredric,

Looks like its working now.

:-)

Regards

Paul

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