Better search filter please

[BigKing]

A better searchfilter like in www.mp3weasel.com for the medialibrary..

The seach option there is great..

[Reaper]

Mind explaining more? Most people here probably don't even use that program or know much about how it works. Are you sure you are not fully using the potential of the Media Library search?

You can enable more powerful views using the custom query language.

The basic format is:

<field> <comparison> [value] [<logic operator> <field> <comparison> [value] [...]]

Field names:
TYPE: 0 for audio files, 1 for video files
FILENAME: Full filename (including path)
LENGTH: Length, in seconds (or hh:mm:ss)
ARTIST: Artist
ALBUM: Album
TITLE: Title
TRACKNO: Track number of file
GENRE: Genre
YEAR: Year
COMMENT: Comment
FILESIZE: File size, in kilobytes
FILETIME: Last known file date/time on disk
LASTUPD: Date/time of file imported to library or modified in library
LASTPLAY: Date/time of last play
RATING: Rating value (1-5, or 0 or empty for unrated)
PLAYCOUNT: Number of plays
BITRATE: Bitrate (in KBPS)

Comparison operators:
'=': String or integer equals value
'!=': String or integer does not equal value
'<': String or integer is less than value
'>': String or integer is greater than value
'<=': String or integer is less than or equal to value
'>=': String or integer is greater than or equal to value
HAS: String contains value
NOTHAS: String does not contain value
LIKE: String is similar to value ("the" and whitespace are ignored)
BEGINS: String begins with value
ENDS: String ends with value
ISEMPTY: (no comparison value required) TRUE if <field> is empty
ISNOTEMPTY: (no comparison value required) TRUE if <field> is not empty

Values:
"strings with spaces" or strings_without_spaces
integers can be "32" or just 32
integers for LENGTH can be a plain integer (seconds), or mm:ss or hh:mm:ss
date/timestamps should be [datetime data], which can be either an absolute
or relative time. i.e.: [3 weeks ago], [18:15], [05/30/2003],
[yesterday noon], [3 days ago 5 pm], [now], [5 mn before may 30th], etc.

Logic operators:
&&, &, or AND: boolean AND two comparisons
||, |, or OR: boolean OR two comparisons
!, or NOT: prefix this to an expression for the boolean NOT of that expression

Examples:
all video files: type = 1
audio by Air longer than 4 minutes: type = 0 & artist = "air" & length > 4:00
all files on drive C: filename BEGINS C:
high rated items that haven't been played lately: rating > 3 & lastplay < [1 week ago]
newly added items that haven't been played yet: lastupd >= [yesterday] & playcount > 0

Note that you can also use this syntax in the search field of views. Simply prefix
a ? or 'query:' to your search string

[emddd40x]

Hey, thanks for listing how to do the searches. I tried using this in Media library for Winamp 5.24 and it didn't want to behave. I'm trying to search for songs with a length over 4 minutes. In Media Library's search entry I put "length > 4:00" (minus the quotes) and it returned "0 items". Now, I've got over 5000 items in my media library, surely it could have found something. Is there an updated listing for how to search in Media library for 5.2x? I notice your post is dated 2004.

[siebe83]

Did you prefix the question mark? Like this:
? length > 4:00

If you leave out the question mark, it'll just search for the words you typed in.

[emddd40x]

That fixed it.

[nadeeshan]

hi
how to search by "comment"

thanks
Nadeeshan

[Aminifu]

Hi nadeeshan,

What in post #2 above you don't understand. It explains how to search by the "comment" field and the 16 other fields supported. Don't ignore the note (in bold type).