Most popular hymns within a denomination or from "My Hymnals"

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Mon, 02/04/2019 - 10:53 — dcsmall14

Is there a way to narrow down the "Popular Hymns" to a chosen denomination or only the most popular hymns from "My Hymnals?" Thank you.


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Mon, 02/04/2019 - 14:07 — hplantin

The search ranker takes popularity into account. So if matches are otherwise all equal, theoretically, searching for hymns in a particular hymnal should rank them by populartiy, and similarly simply searching for starred hymns. E.g.

 https://hymnary.org/search?qu=%20in%3Atexts&starredHymns=true

At least, that's my theory. Does it look like it's working that way to you?

Wed, 02/06/2019 - 09:56 — dcsmall14

Thanks for the response. I guess I'm not trying to find which of my starred hymns are most popular in general, or which in my congregation's hymnbook are most popular in general, but taking the 5 hymnals in "My hymnals," which hymns are most popular within that self-contained subset of "My hymnals". Or even if I wanted to search within only Lutheran hymnals? Although, i do think I may want to see which of the hymns are most popular in general too, but I've already looked through the general "popular hymns" page, so I'm comfortable with that.

Actually, I think I have got it. Search for texts within my hymnals, my hymnals sorted by instances...or something like that. Thanks for helping me think about it differently to figure it out. 

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