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More => Old Versions => Media Jukebox => Topic started by: Dave on February 06, 2002, 01:12:56 am

Title: How do you search on Length
Post by: Dave on February 06, 2002, 01:12:56 am

Hi there, I assume you could search for 1hrs worth of MP3's using the advanced search function of MJ8 but I am not sure how it works?

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: KingSparta on February 06, 2002, 01:19:14 am

Normaly i just type something in

or

you can type in the field your looking for (there are short cuts for the fields) or you can use the advance tab

Artist field

Artist="Bill Black"
Or
Artist=[Bill Black]
Or
Ar="Bill Black"
Or
Ar=[Bill Black]

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: Cmagic on February 06, 2002, 01:50:14 am

Hi Dave,

No you can't search on a total length for a serie of tracks, though that would be nice.
What you can do is search on the length for a particular track.

For example you can search for songs with a rule like

length=<60 length=>300 (not quite sure of the syntax, I have no MJ handy on my UltraSparc !)

To select songs that are shorter than 1 mn and longer than 5 mn to create a "short and long tracks" skip playlist.
If you want to create a 1 hour long playlist, you have to check the length of your playlist
in the status bar as you build it !
I don't know if there is a smarter way,

anybody ?

Cheers

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: Matt on February 06, 2002, 04:19:13 am

There's currently no way to limit the result size of a search.  You have to do that post-search. (by only selecting the files you want and looking and the status bar or something)

Otherwise, we think it would be too confusing when one smartlist had different results each time it was run. (i.e. 100 rock songs if you had 1000)

Take care.

-Matt

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: KingSparta on February 06, 2002, 09:06:47 am

MATT

By the way

you can search comment field, but i noticed it is not in the advance button

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: Matt on February 06, 2002, 09:46:25 am

King, you can search on like 20 fields, but we only provide the "Wizard" for the most common types, so as to avoid confusion.

-Matt

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: bennyd on February 06, 2002, 10:05:01 am

Can you search on date (the date field in the view, not the year)? so I can see all songs before or after a certain date ?

Title: RE:How do you search on Length
Post by: KingSparta on February 06, 2002, 01:08:12 pm

Matt

Just wondering

bennyd

tried the date no go