Operation Manual

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VirtualDJ provides an intuitive on the fly search capability. Adding files to the global search is quite
easy and can be done in two ways.
First is by setting the ‗Search Database‘ property in the Configuration‘s Browser tab to ‗Add
automatically‘. This will add any files not already part of the
search (new additions) when browsing the folder structure of
your collection.
The other option is ‗Add manually‘, requires using the ‗Add to
Search DB‘ option to be selected on the actual entry in the main
browser interface and then right-clicking and selecting ‗Add to
Search DB‘.
In either scenario, once added to the Global Search; the ability
to find the file is always available when doing a search. The
difference is in the results display of the search determines if it is in the currently selected folder or
elsewhere in the system.
The search field is located at the top of the browser panel. To search the files listed in the database, left
click on the search field then type your search text.
Searching is instant and not necessary to type the text in its entirety, a few letters are enough to
produce results where you will see the single title of what you are looking for.
If you want to limit the search results to specific types of file, click on the eye
graphic at the right of the search box and chose from the Show Music, Show
Videos, and Show Karaoke options.
If your search does not produce any results you can ‗save‘ the search
criteria to a special text file. Click on the yellow note graphic. This allows for
a list to be created that can be used as a ‗need to buy‘ list for improving your collection. This file is
called ―SearchLog.txt‖ and can be found in your My Documents -> VirtualDJ folder.
When putting together your search you can use a couple ‗wildcard‘ characters when you are unsure
what the proper spelling might be. The wildcard characters are the question mark ‗?‘ and an asterisk
‗*‘. The question mark ‗?‘ indicates that any character can fill/use that 1 character space. The asterisk
‗*‘ means to allow any set of characters to fill/use the space in between the characters on either side of
it.
For example – using ‗sh??t‘ will produce results consisting of tracks like ‗Push it‟ by Salt-n-Pepa,
‗Shout‘ by Otis Day and the Knights, or tracks by the artist ‗Ashanti‘. In all these cases there is a 5
character match with the search term where the first 2 characters are ‗sh‘ and the last character is a ‗t‘
with no more than any two (2) characters in between.
If the search term is changed to ‗sh*t‘ then the result will be a larger selection of tracks from words as
short as ‗shot‘ or ‗shut‘ to ‗She Blinded Me With Science‘ by Thomas Dolby.
GLOBAL SEARCH
SEARCHING