Searching MP3 File Tags

[cldcp00]

Hi
Please excuse me if I have missed something obvious

I am trying to find files based on a value in the ID3 tags

i.e Album Greatest Hits

I have tried /contents="Greatest Hits"

Your help would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Des

[admin]

Try this (admittedly not really *obvious* ):

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prop:#mp3.album:Greatest Hits

[cldcp00]

Hi Admin,

Thank you very much for you reply much appreciated.

Am I correct in assuming that have to know in advance which tag holds the value i.e in this case Album.

Is there a way of searching all tags for a value?

Something the information is not correctly tagged and therefore the value could be in any of the tags.

Thank you

[admin]

No, there is no such option. But there aren't that many tags. You should be able to find them in the Help file.

[highend]

Use e.g. a script to make it easier...

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    $props = "album|artist|Comments|Composer|genre|title|track|year";
    $pattern = ":";
    foreach($prop, $props, , "e") { $pattern .= "prop:#mp3.$prop:" . <clipboard> . " OR "; }
    copytext substr($pattern, , strlen($pattern) -4);

E.g. create a user defined command and assign it a keyboard shortcut

Then type e.g.:
Greatest hits

in the name field, ctrl+a, ctrl+c, the keyboard shortcut you've assigned, ctrl+v

and you get this inside the name field:

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:prop:#mp3.album:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.artist:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.Comments:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.Composer:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.genre:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.title:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.track:Greatest hits OR prop:#mp3.year:Greatest hits

[cldcp00]

Hi Highend,

Thanks you so much for the script, it's going to make things so much easier for me.

Regards

Desmond

[cldcp00]

Hi Highend

Hope all is well.
I have moved to a new pc and for some reason i cannot get your script working




https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsYqW0NCjM4fgY9lEUW ... g?e=wX9THQ

Thanks in advance for your help

[jupe]

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[admin]

Try this (admittedly not really *obvious* ):

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prop:#mp3.album:Greatest Hits

In the current version it's much easier. You can use the column name:

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Tag Album:Greatest Hits

However, to match "Gold:Greatest Hits" you either have to give the full title or add asterisks:

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Tag Album:Gold:Greatest Hits
Tag Album:*Greatest Hits*

When using prop:#mp3.album: this is not necessary, partial matches work by default:

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prop:#mp3.album:Greatest Hits

Hmmm....