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Title: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: nila on February 02, 2003, 01:27:00 pm

Hi,
I'm trying to create a smart playlist that is basically this:

filetype=[mp3]  filename=[n:\full albums\*]  filename=[n:\soundtracks\*] filename=[N:\compilations\*] but am finding it impossible

Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Basically I want all the songs under those three folders to be in the smart list.

Please try your answer before putting it as what I thought would work isn't.


and the BUG is this:
In order to get it to do the folder name's I've had to do:
filename=[N:\full albums
and leave the end open - how do I then start typing something else without it thinking it's part of the same search?
Wildcard support needs to be added!

Title: Re: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: dragyn on February 02, 2003, 01:47:17 pm

[File Type]=[mp3] (Filename="n:\soundtracks\" or filename="n:\complilations\")

works for me. I didn't use those specific filenames though.

Title: Re: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: nila on February 02, 2003, 03:24:15 pm

Thanks :)

This one doesn't work using that method:
filename="G:\-[newly downloaded mp3s\-albums\")

I'm guessing due to the [ in the filename.

REQUEST

• Right now for the filename wizard there is only the option to select absolute filenames. I'd like an option to select paths as well which is currectly lacking. That would sort out this problem.
  
  
• Still BEGGING for filename and filepath to be two seperate fields in MJ instead of combined like they are now.

Title: Re: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: nila on February 03, 2003, 06:19:48 am

Bump Bump - still having a problem with that one field that has the [ in the filename - any way of doing it that'd work even with that character in it? Thanks

Title: Re: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: Matt on February 03, 2003, 07:53:52 am

You have to "escape" the characters []" by putting a forward slash in front of them.

So, use this:

[filename]=[G:\-/[Newly Downloaded MP3s\-Albums"

Also, brackets and quotes work the same -- so if you open a statement with a bracket, you must close it with a quote or bracket.

Read the help for the difference between a quote and bracket.

Title: Re: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: nila on February 03, 2003, 04:07:18 pm

Thanks Matt,

Still having some problems with the new search bar in general but hopefully it's still a work in progress so I wont whine now :)

Title: Re: search bar - problem? bug? Please help :)
Post by: nila on February 03, 2003, 04:32:41 pm

Oh - And is there any chance of filename and directory being seperated Matt or is that just a dream ?
:)

Reason being I have some quite long directories, in order to see the filenames I have to have HUGE amounts of space in MJ for this field, I dont actually care about the file path, just want to see the file name.
If they were seperate I could disable path and just get to see what I want, the name.

Obviously some people want both so they could have both too :)