Option to remove karaoke versions or tribute bands from search

and that seems to be our problem.

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Hi @Nadav Har'El !

If I understand you so well here is two issues :
1.issue - long list of karaoke versions and not original performer versions of some song (for example cascada miracle )
2.issue - one song of original performer is on few albums (for example Cascada Miracle is on album Miracle (remixes) and album Everytime We Touch)

I agree that is karaoke version of some song need to remove from search box or put in some other version of search .

Some performers have single version ,album version and compilation album version and is possible that one song can be on all 3 version of edition .

When I look on Deezer in discography on of some performer there is :

Top Tracks
Latest Release
Albums
EPs
Singles
Splits
Featured in

When you put song in your playlist need have some time to find which edition you want .

Otherwise, if Deezer remove all editions of original performer it not will be right .

Conclusion is that need remove only Karaoke versions , and for choosing song from editions of some performer need be letting to user who need put effort to find what we want . 

II agree with the idea of better ranking instead of removing, but original vs tribute/kareoke is such a binary decision that users should be able to turn it on or off in preferences

i for one hate the non-originals so much that it’s a deal breaker for me

I agree that “kareoke version” could be made a binary flag, but what will you call “tribute”? There is quite a number of songs which got different versions by different singers over the years. In some cases, the popularity of the “cover version” came close to the original one, or even exceeded it. Will you exclude the new versions, because they are a “tribute”?

My proposal does things better, and automatically: For example, consider the song “Beggin’”. Its original version was from 1967, there was a new version from 2007 and yet another version by Måneskin in 2017. When you search for “Beggin” today, you’ll want to see all three versions, with the version that is most popular today (Måneskin’s?) on top. You wouldn’t want to see only the (now mostly obscure) original 1967 version with all other versions hidden under a “see also kareoke and tribute versions” button.

At the same time, if there’s another recording of someone singing Beggin in the shower, it will naturally be ranked low (because, presumably, nobody “loved” this recording or even bothered to listen to it), so it won’t bother the user who will see the top-three versions of Beggin first on the search list, so who cares what’s in the 20th place on the search list?

Finally, please note that with your “binary flag” suggestion, as soon as you enable “cover versions”, you’ll get both Måneskin’s very popular version and the someone-singing-Beggin-in-the-shower version as equally “cover versions”. You’ll still need some sort of ranking to show the Måneskin version first. So I suggest just use ranking in the first place - without that “binary flag” at all.