Re: searching the library

  • From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:28:27 -0800

Thank you, David!
After Windows Explorer, the Winamp Library Program has to be one of the most 
powerful of its type out there.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Truong" <bnfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:06 AM
Subject: RE: searching the library


Guys,

You can do heaps of things regarding searching in the Winamp library.  It's
just a matter of reading the help.  Jus like:

*** Start of help

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

*** End of help
David Truong

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-----Original Message-----
From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gurd
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:08 PM
To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: searching the library

There's no way to search only on artists or titles for that matter. If I
were searching for the Cure I would go to the results window and hit "C".
That way at least the cursor would be at the beginning of everything
beginning with the letter "C" even if the results themselves weren't
refined.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of aad leeflang
Sent: 05 February 2006 10:28
To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: searching the library


well my problem refers to the music libbrary of my mp3 files.
how can you search only on artists? maybe that should solve the problem.
any ansswer?
aad
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:29:50 -0500, Ron Canazzi wrote:

>Hi Aad,

>Well, I don't think there is actually a way to refine filters.  In
addition,
>I find that this once proud utility (namely the Winamp library) is less
>useful than it used to be--since AOL cut down the number of streams
>downloadable.  I don't know how they limit it, but I know that when I used
>to do a search for some station using key words, I would always get a
number
>that reflected all the available results.  Now since the limitation, I know
>that I do not.  I used to get about 200 police scanner streams when I typed
>in the word scanner, but now I only get about 20 or 30.  I used to get a
few
>hundred when I typed in talk radio or politics and now I only get a few
>dozen.  I guess the only real way to search is to go to the Shoutcast page
>and do searches on their site--reading through all the ads and getting all
>those tracking cookies placed on your system.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "aad leeflang" <daal@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "winamp4theblind" <winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 5:49 AM
>Subject: searching the library


>hello all,
>is there a way to refine your search in the winamp library?
>when i search on cure, being a group, i allso get all other things like:
>obscured by clowds, or obscure recordings.
>so i want to filter out those results
>but how?
>aad


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