User Guide

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The filter dialog provides some great examples but to get it’s real power need to now what are the
appropriate elements, operators, and a few keywords that are used.
Elements - "title", "author", "artist", "album", "genre", "year", "bpm", "key", "bitrate", "songlen",
"filesize", "filepath", "filename", "extension", "hascover", "isscanned", "alreadyplayed", "lastplay",
"firstplay", "firstseen", "nbplay", "type", "days since firstseen", "days since firstplay",
"days since lastplay", "LinkedVideo", "HasLinkedVideo", “BPMDiff”, “KeyDiff”, “ispresent”, “inSearchDB”
Operators – "==", "=", ">=", "<=", "!=", "<>", ">", "<", "is not", "is", "equals”, "equal", "contains",
"contain", "doesn’t contain", "starts with", "start with", "ends with", "end with ", "and ",
"or ", "&&", "||", "&", "|"
Keywords – “top”, “[inverted]”
Filter Folder Examples
FILTER
Expected Result
isscanned=0 or isscanned=1 Local Database
top 100 nbplay top 100 list
top 100 firstseen recently added
top 100 lastplay recently played
bpm>120 and bpm<130 bpm range from 120 to 130
year>=1980 and year<1990 80s music
days since lastplay<7 songs played last week
days since lastplay<31 songs played last month
days since lastplay<365 songs played last year
lastplay=0 never played songs
isscanned=0 files not scanned
type=video video group
type=audio audio group
type=karaoke karaoke group
hascover=1 has cover picture
hascover=0 doesn't have cover picture
top 20 nbplay and hascover=1 and
(type=video or type=karaoke)
Top 20 most played that have a cover and
are Video or Karaoke files
filepath start with "c:\mp3\80s" or filepath
start with "d:\music\80s"
Show all 80s files stored on two separate
drives in a folder titled 80s
extension is "mp3" and title doesn't contain
"madona"
Any mp3 file that does not contain
“madona” in the title
UTILITY FILTERS
insearchdb=0
In my database but not in Search
(Hidden from Search)
ispresent=0
Entries in my Database, but not on disk
(Error: files)