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The MediaBay
• Once a search operation has been completed, the very
first entry in the Viewer list is selected. When you now
press [Tab] once, this selected entry will receive the focus
and you can use the Up and Down arrow keys to browse
the list of files.
Cubase only: Performing a Details search
The following section briefly describes how to perform a
search for a particular file name in the file system.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the root folder of your hard disk in the Browser
section.
2. Select the Details search mode by clicking on the De-
tails tab at the top of the Filter section.
3. By default, the tag pop-up menu to the left is set to
“Any Attribute”, and the condition pop-up menu in the
middle is set to “contains”.
Leave these as they are.
4. Enter part of the name of the file that you wish to find
in the text field to the right.
Note how the search is performed anew every time you enter a new let-
ter. Detail searches are not case sensitive.
A Details search for files whose names contain “piano”.
• The Tag pop-up menu shows an alphabetical list of file
tags you can choose from. At the top of the pop-up menu,
the MediaBay maintains a smaller list of the last 5 tags se-
lected during previous searches.
Note that you can select more than one tag. This will create an OR con-
dition: the files found will match either one or the other tag. Click OK to
set the tag(s) to search for. How to configure the tag list is described in
the section “Managing the tag lists (Cubase only)” on page 297.
• To reset all search fields to their default settings, click
the Reset button in the top right corner of the Filter section.
This will also reset the tag list settings.
The Reset button in the Filter section
• The condition pop-up menu contains the following op-
tions:
• Note that for all conditions except “range”, you can en-
ter more than one string in the text field (separate different
search strings with a space).
These strings form an AND condition, i.e. the files found will match all
strings entered in the field.
• To open a new filter line, move the mouse pointer to the
right end of the text field and click the “+” button that ap-
pears.
This way, you can set up up to five additional filter lines in which you can
define new search conditions. Note that two or more filter lines form an
AND condition, i.e. the files searched for must match the conditions de-
fined in all filter lines. Click the “-” button for a filter line to remove it.
Enter the file name here.
Option Description
contains The searched tag value must contain the text or number speci-
fied in the text field to the right.
omits The searched tag value must not contain the text or number
specified in the text field to the right.
equals The searched tag value must match the text or number speci-
fied in the text field to the right, including any file extension. Note
however, that detail searches for text are not case sensitive.
>= The searched tag value must be higher than, or equal to, the
number specified in the field to the right.
<= The searched tag value must be lower than, or equal to, the
number specified in the field to the right.
is empty You can use this option to find files for which certain tags have
not been specified yet.
range When “range” is selected, you can specify a lower and an up-
per limit for the searched tag value in the fields to the right.