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The MediaBay
Performing a Category search
The MediaBay allows you not only to view and edit some
of the standard file attributes found in all computer files,
but it also provides preconfigured tags, or “categories”,
that you can use to organize your media files.
The advantages of such categorization become obvious
when having to find one specific file, e.g. a certain guitar
sound, among large numbers of media files from various
contexts, without knowing the name of that file.
When you select the Category search mode, the Filter
section will show the tag columns, each with its own list of
tag values.
The default setup of Category search mode
By clicking on individual tag values in the tag columns, you
define the search filter: only the files that match the se-
lected tag values will be displayed in the Viewer. Select
more tag values from other columns to further refine your
search.
• Selected tag values in the same tag column form an OR
condition.
This means that files must be tagged according to either one or the other
value to be displayed in the Viewer section.
For the “Style” tag, the files found will show either the “Blues” OR the
“Jazz” tag value.
• Tag values in different columns form an AND condition.
This means that files must be tagged according to all these values to be
displayed in the Viewer section.
The files found will belong to the “E. Guitar” sub category tag AND
show “Blues” for the Style tag.
Categorization by tagging makes it easy to organize your
media files. How to assign tag values to your files is de-
scribed in the section “The Tag Editor (Cubase only)” on
page 296 and in the section “Tagging media files” on
page 299.
Ö Cubase only: Note that you can use existing tags or
use the user tag feature (see “Defining user tags (Cubase
only)” on page 298) to create your own categories.
Category searches are used not only in the MediaBay, but
throughout Cubase in various VST Sound-related con-
texts (see the chapter “VST Sound” on page 284).
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When you are using Cubase Studio, note that Cate-
gory search is the only search mode available.
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By default, the first two tag columns are set to “Cate-
gory” and “Sub Category”. These tags are directly
linked to each other: for each Category value, there is
a number of Sub Category values. Changing to a dif-
ferent Category value in the first tag column will give
you different values in the Sub Category column!
These tag values were found in the currently selected folder.
The files displayed in the Viewer match the selected tag values.
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Each tag column displays only the tag values found
in the folder selected in the Browser section of the
MediaBay! This means that selecting a different
folder in the Browser may lead to the display of dif-
ferent Category search settings.