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[lalittle]

Somebody else just asked a similar question recently, but I had a followup question and the thread was locked for some reason, so I have to start a new thread to ask this.

In the other thread, two different people posted different ways of doing this.  One person suggested

imagefile=":"

and somebody else suggested

[Image File]=[]

The original poster said that imagefile=":" worked for him, but this confuses me since when I do this, it finds songs that DO have cover art saved in the file.  I can look at the files in the list and see the cover art in the Action Window.  I tried variations on imagefile=":", such as [Image File]=:, [Image File]=":", imagefile=:, etc, but none of them work.  [Image File]=[] does seem to work, but I am confused about why the other method isn't working for me.

Thanks for any helping me understand this,

Larry

[marko]

the recent question was not how to find files with no art, but how to find those with art stored externally.

I'm surprised to find that imagefile=":" returns any results as it was my understanding that "..." implied an exact match.

Anyhow, imagefile=[] returns all files with no coverart associated, =[] returns empty, or unnasigned file matches.

[lalittle]

the recent question was not how to find files with no art, but how to find those with art stored externally.

I'm surprised to find that imagefile=":" returns any results as it was my understanding that "..." implied an exact match.

Anyhow, imagefile=[] returns all files with no coverart associated, =[] returns empty, or unnasigned file matches.

You're right -- I apparently misread the post a bit.  It looks like [Image File]=[] is what I'm looking for.

Thanks for clarifying this.

Larry

[prod]

Isn't there an autosmartlist included with MC called "Task - no images" that contains all files without images assigned? i definitely remember one being there last time i looked...

edit...

the recent question was not how to find files with no art, but how to find those with art stored externally.

ah

You're right -- I apparently misread the post a bit. It looks like [Image File]=[] is what I'm looking for.

looks like i just did the same (misread the post) ... never mind.

[marko]

[KingSparta]

I'm surprised to find that imagefile=":" returns any results

Well If It Is External It Has A Drive Letter Like "C:\"

Since ":" Or ":\" Would Be In Any External Image, It Works

[marko]

obviously. it's not that that surprised me, it's the quotes.

I thought that ":" meant that to match the search, [image file] must be exactly :
while [image file]=: would look for any occurrance of : anywhere in the field entry

[image file]=[:] behaves in the way I'd also expect [image file]=":" to do.

It was more the kind of raise the eyebrows, shrug my shoulders, and move along kind of surprise, than the shock-horror variety

[JimH]

It was more the kind of raise the eyebrows, shrug my shoulders, and move along kind of surprise, than the shock-horror variety

There are more than a few of those in life.  Whew.