Appears search broke down some time after midnight (Eastern) 8/3. Tried an artist with clearly large number of spins played early morning and nothing was returned.
I checked and found the following working ok for me
- auto-complete search in spin entry form
- station member’s search (in menu Report: Search & Chart)
- the commercial Spinitron Search, via Spinitron Search subscription
So to debug what’s not working for you, can you give me a recipe for how to reproduce the error you’re experiencing?
Go to free search and input any popular artist. For example, Bruce Springsteen shows exactly one spin since 9:33 PM last night. And there are exactly ZERO Beyonce spins. (I just used them to test - I was not interested in finding them in particular But now you get the idea.)
Alternatively, pick any radio station playlist for 8/3 and input some of their artists into free search. My guess is that your hit rate will be under 10%.
Example of the second - I picked WKCR’s “Out to Lunch” program which began 8/3 noon Eastern. They played a number of tracks from the Ahmad Jamal album Ballades to start the show. Not one entry for that station appears under his name in free search.
I see. So you’re not getting results you expect, not that the search is broken down. I’ll investigate.
I found that the process for updating the search indexes with new spins had gotten stuck. So this is consistent with the searches running but not returning recent spins.
I think I got it unstuck yesterday evening and I’m now working on trying to make the updating more robust against this kind of failure.
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Have not had to type this for a long time but search broke down again around noon, Friday May 17. If you search for any artist right now in the free search, nothing will return, and I assume the paid search will return nothing after noontime yesterday.
Hi @rhg
I tested the free public search and, because this topic is tagged “auto-complete” also the playlist entry form. Both are working for me.
In the free public search this query https://spinitron.com/m/search?q=beatles produces results.
We had some operational issues last week that did affect search for a while so if you can give me more specific instructions to reproduce I’ll investigate.
I randomly took a jazz show at 4PM today on WPRK and put him into search - nothing. I then went to WNMR Fine Arts which played Elgar’s Symphony 2 and typed Elgar into search - nothing. I did try the Beatles and it returned 3 spins in last 24 hours sitewide, which seems absurdly low, so I put in Rolling Stones and got zero. I’m certain the system is down.
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Sorry - left out WPRK name - it was Sam Rivers.
Thanks for the extra info @rhg
I think the process for adding new spins to the search engine index might have gotten stuck in the recent calamity (turns out it was a power outage) at OVH, or something I didn’t do right in the recovery from that.
I’ll work on this today. Let’s hope to see some improvement before tomorrow.
I may have managed to sort it out. Please reply here to let me know what you find.
Sorry for the trouble it caused.
It was doing great, but it now appears to have broken down again some time today. I picked on John Coltrane, KCCK, around 1 PM (they’re in Iowa so it reports out at 2 PM Eastern) and nothing showed. A few Beatles tunes are showing up since morning but nowhere near the frequency they should.
Is anyone else having lots of trouble with searches in the past few weeks? After no such issues in the past just recently, fairly often (several times a day) I’ll be in the midst of a search and will suddenly get a “404 Page Not Found” error. This can last for a few minutes, or for longer, but it makes things difficult when you’re trying to work quickly. Thanks, Sybil A.