Several folks have been frustrated with the number of songs in the music4dance catalog that only have one or two votes for a particular dance style. This limitation doesn’t matter for many searches because you can sort by dance votes, and the most popular songs end up at the top.
But if you want to sort by something else, such as tempo or date modified, you’re out of luck. That is until now.
I’ve added a feature in advanced search that enhances the ability to filter by dance. Previously, you could filter only on whether a song had a net of at least one vote for a dance style. Now, you can filter on any threshold. So, if I want to create a list of all songs with at least three votes (net) between 160 and 180 beats per measure sorted by date added, I can do that now.
Here’s how:
- Go to Advanced Search
- Choose Salsa in the Dance filter
- Click on Show Thresholds
- Click on the “+” next to Salsa twice to increase the threshold to 3
- Change the tempo range to 160-180
- Choose “When Added” for the “Sort By” field
Let me know what you think. Are there other ways you would use this kind of filter? Is there any reason to filter out the most voted for songs? That’s certainly possible, but I didn’t see a use case for that.
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