Instrumental Search results include songs with vocals, without instrumental tag

[emilysnowflake]

Search results for instrumental still yield tracks with vocals, and those tracks do NOT include the tag "instrumental" and DO include the tag "vocals".

Search results for dig need to be refined.

[mwic]

If "instrumental" ends up in the "query" param you get unpredictable results.. search by the instrumental tag works somewhat better:
http://ccmixter.org/api/query?f=json&datasource=uploads&stype=all&sinced=&sort=rank&order=desc&lic=&tags=instrumental&limit=10&ord=desc&offset=0
"vocal" does not appear in that result set.

However, increasing to 50 instead of 10:
http://ccmixter.org/api/query?f=json&datasource=uploads&stype=all&sinced=&sort=rank&order=desc&lic=&tags=instrumental&limit=50&ord=desc&offset=0

You get some tracks that have both the "instrumental" and "male_vocals" tags. If users tag tracks in a contradictory manner, I'm not sure what can be done about that ..

To address Emily's original issue, perhaps a fourth tag-list "module" after genre, instrument, and style. I would suggest "popular" and list the most-used tags in the whole system, allowing users to quickly do a tag search on

instrumental
pell
male_vocal
female_vocal

etc.

[victor-stone]

instrumental, -male_vocal, -female_vocal

;)