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The MediaBay
4. Click OK.
The new preset is added to the Select Browse Location Presets pop-up
menu (which can be opened by clicking on the down arrow icon).
When you now open the Select Browse Location Presets
pop-up menu and select the new preset, the respective
preset folder will be selected in the Browser display.
• To remove a preset from the Select Browse Location
Presets pop-up, select it from the pop-up and click the
“Remove Browse Location Preset” button (the “-” icon).
Finding files in the Viewer section
The Viewer section consists of two panes: the Filter section
at the top and below it, the Viewer display. In the Filter sec-
tion, you can set up filters and define searches for specific
files. The Viewer display lists any files contained in the folder
selected in the Browser, and tags of these files. How to set
up the tag display in the Viewer is described in the section
“Managing the tag lists (Cubase only)” on page 297.
Ö Cubase only: Note that it is only possible to edit tags
in the Viewer if “Allow Editing in Viewer” is activated in the
Preferences dialog (MediaBay page).
When this preference is deactivated, editing is only possible in the Tag
Editor (see “Editing tags in the Tag Editor” on page 297).
The Viewer section
Depending on your settings, the number of files displayed
in the Viewer can be huge (the info line at the bottom of
the window shows the number of files found with the cur-
rent filter settings). Therefore, the MediaBay provides a
number of ways to display only specific files and to per-
form very refined file searches.
Ö By default, the number of files displayed in the Viewer
section is limited to 10,000 files. You can change this by
specifying a new value for “Maximum Number of Results in
Viewer” in the Preferences dialog (MediaBay page).
Filtering the Viewer display
The MediaBay provides a number of filter buttons that can
be used to limit the number of files displayed in the Viewer
section.
• At the top of the Viewer section you will find the filter
buttons that can be used to show all supported file types
or any combination of file types.
For example, when you activate the Audio and the MIDI filter buttons,
only the audio and the MIDI files contained in the folder selected in the
Browser will be displayed. When none (or all) of these buttons are acti-
vated, files of all supported types will be displayed.
The filter buttons. The display is filtered to show only audio files.
Defining searches for specific files
The filter buttons let you find files according to the folder(s)
they might be located in, or according to their file type.
However, you can also perform very detailed searches for
files that meet certain criteria.
• Cubase only: The Details search mode allows you to
perform a search for a specific file tag value.
You define which tag to search for, e.g. “Name”, and specify the corre-
sponding value, e.g. “myfilename.wav”.
• In Category search mode, the Filter section will display
all values found for a specific tag (or “category”). Select-
ing one of these values will result in a list of files all show-
ing this particular tag value.
For example, you could look for sample rates and pick 44.1 kHz to give
you a list of all files with that particular sample rate. But Category search
mode becomes really interesting when making extensive use of tagging –
see “Performing a Category search” on page 294 and “Tagging media
files” on page 299.