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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: pipsqueak on April 30, 2004, 04:15:26 pm

Title: Search Bar musings / recommendation...
Post by: pipsqueak on April 30, 2004, 04:15:26 pm

Im frequently using the search bar to track down certain songs/albums/artists but if i type in say "chemical brothers" the screen returns any track with chemical brothers mentioned anywhere in the tag. So given that they are an influential duo i get 200 files not the 70 odd that were actually BY the chemical brothers. the rest usually reference them in the bios or album reviews.

Is there a way to limit the search fields (and save my settings), as it really unlikely that im going to search for the band that was influenced by santana!!!

Ideally i think there should be a quick search and for those rare occassionaly a comprehensive search. Or prehaps a search visible fields only check box...

Now im aware that i could specify [Artist]=Chemical Brothers, but thats slow and there are often times i know the word im looking for but cant remember if it was a track/album or even the artist...

anyone else understand / share my sentiments?

pip

Title: Re:Search Bar musings / recommendation...
Post by: Matt on April 30, 2004, 04:53:41 pm

You can create custom keyword shortcuts.  ar= is a stock one for artist.

Also, turn off "Default search field" for the fields you don't want searched.

Those options are in the library field properties.  (Options > Tree & View)

Title: Re:Search Bar musings / recommendation...
Post by: pipsqueak on April 30, 2004, 05:06:05 pm

thanks Matt - i should have known that you would have thought of this already  ;D

All i had to do was uncheck the 'Comment' field (which i use to store the album review) as a default search item and i was done

Have a good weekend

Pip